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Grad Student Council Election Draws Large Voter Turnout
At the end of one of the longest and most contentious elections in recent memory, current President Cammi N. Valdez, along with a slate of other incumbent candidates, maintained control of five of the six contested positions on the Council.
FM Investigates: Backpacks
Backpacks: bulging with books, heavy with technology, guardians of our stuff, and utterly shrouded in mystery. Can we judge the contents of a backpack by its cover?
FM Investigates: Backpacks
Backpacks: bulging with books, heavy with technology, guardians of our stuff, and utterly shrouded in mystery. Can we judge the contents of a backpack by its cover?
Allan M. Brandt
Allan M. Brandt, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, stepped down from his post on Thursday afternoon. Brandt has been heralded for his efforts to increase the accessibility of graduate education at Harvard.
GSAS Dean To Step Down, Citing Health Concerns
Allan M. Brandt announced Thursday that he will be stepping down from his role as dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences due to health considerations stemming from a recently diagnosed illness.
Grad Council Denounces Violence Against UC Occupiers
After an hour of heated debate, the Graduate Student Council passed a resolution Wednesday night decrying the violence used against students involved in Occupy protests at the University of California campuses at Davis and Berkeley.
Oscar Handlin Wins Posthumous Honorary Post
The Henry Adams Club, a history graduate student organization, awarded GSAS alumnus Oscar Handlin a posthumous honorary Vice President’s post ...
Garber Prioritizes Library Reform
Having joined Harvard only a few months ago, Provost Alan M. Garber ’76 called reforming the Harvard University Library system his “number one” priority at Tuesday’s meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Three Harvard Graduates Share Nobel Prize in Physics
The alumni discovered that the universe is not only expanding, but constantly accelerating—a discovery that shook the cosmology world by overturning the common belief that the universe was slowing down.
SEAS To Offer Secondary Field in Computational Science
With some courses open to undergraduates, the new graduate secondary field comes amid growing interest in computational methods across a wide range of disciplines.
After 43 Days, Gillis Released by Libyan Authorities
After 43 days of detention by the Libyan authorities, Harvard graduate and freelance journalist Clare M. Gillis was finally released on Wednesday and moved to Rixos Hotel in Tripoli.
Graduate School Applications Likely To Surge
Graduate school applications are expected to surge again this year, according to a survey released by test prep company Kaplan on Tuesday.
GSAS Applications Reach Record High
The Graduate School of Arts and Science received a record nearly 12,000 applications during the 2009-2010 admissions cycle, the largest number in GSAS history, the school announced last Thursday.
Harvard Grad School Departments Top Rankings
Harvard boasts the highest number of top-performing doctoral programs, according to a National Research Council report released yesterday.
Percentage of Female Harvard Ph.D.s Below National Average
Women received more doctoral degrees than men did during the 2008-2009 academic year—a finding from which Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts slightly diverged by awarding only 40.9 percent of its doctoral degrees to women in the same year.
Stretch Marks
Since its establishment as an independent institution in 2007, the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has undergone phenomenal growth, with a nearly 37 percent rise in undergraduate concentrators in the past three years.
Anomaly at Harvard?
In the most competitive year for humanities graduate students entering the field of academia since the Modern Language Association began tracking academic job trends 35 years ago, some administrators maintain that students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences are an anomaly to the grim national picture.
Graduate Student Teaching Fellows Lost in Translation
Last fall, the Bok Center began a pilot program called “Oral Communications Skills Course For International TFs.”
GSAS To End Daycare Stipend
A pilot program that provided childcare stipends to graduate students with children will be discontinued after this spring, removing an income supplement on which some students have come to rely.
GSAS Offers Mini-Courses During January
Forget vacation. Several students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences have kept themselves busy during January by designing and leading their own miniature courses for graduate students in other fields.
Graduate Enrollment Breaks with Nat’l Trend
The number of international students applying to Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences has increased this year.
Grad Student Wins Big On TV
On Friday afternoon, rather than courting a thesis advisor or working on research, Harvard graduate student Nathan Kaplan was watching ...