Seeking to adapt to the rapidly changing landscape, Harvard faculty convened a two-day summit this fall on revamping doctoral math education for the age of AI. The two dozen prominent mathematicians in attendance produced a report recommending urgent changes.
A recent study from the Harvard Laboratory for Developmental Studies describes how games aimed at improving social skills, played in preschool settings, boost social-cognitive development for Brazilian children living near or below the poverty line.
Amid the rhythms of the back-to-campus bustle, new faculty find themselves experiencing the same first-day excitement — and jitters. We dropped in on three, on the first day of their first classes.
Through the Research Accelerator Challenge, donors raised $100 million for new endowed doctoral fellowships.
For more than three decades, the Harvard College First-Year Arts Program has served as incoming students’ first encounter with the breadth of artistic people, places, and pursuits awaiting them on campus.
Ross McElwee has often set out to make a film about one thing, only for it to become about something else entirely.
How did we cede control of our democracy to the machines, and can we get it back? These are the questions Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History, asks in her latest book.
Deep in the woods of Petersham, Mass., the Harvard Forest Summer Research Program in Ecology is cultivating a renewable resource — future generations of scientists.
The incoming professor of English’s fourth novel, “Beginning Middle End,” follows a mother and her 12-year-old daughter as they travel to Sicily, where the duo is figuring out how to reconstruct their lives amid their encounters with the island’s daily life, its winds, waters, and volcanoes.
Many mornings a week, Andrei Shleifer uses his morning run to connect with students.
After spending two years immersed in digitized versions of the Tibetan Buddhist canon for his Harvard Divinity School studies, Sherab Chomphel, M.T.S. ’25, was finally face to face with the centuries-old block prints themselves.