Education
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Benefits of early education found to persist for years, bolstering graduation, reducing retention, and reducing special education placements
By Bary Walsh Harvard Gazette We know that early childhood education is a good thing, but even with growing enrollments…
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UMass Amherst Professor Prashant Shenoy Named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
AMHERST, MA—University of Massachusetts-Amherst computer science professor Prashant Shenoy has been named fellow of the American Association for the Advancement…
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Samarth Gupta of Acton Selected Among 32 Rhodes Scholars
CAMBRIDGE, MA– Samarth Gupta of Acton, MA, and a Harvard University student who has lived most of his life in…
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Subir Sachdev of Harvard University Awarded 2018 Lars Onsager Prize
CAMBRIDGE, MA—Subir Sachdev, the Herchel Smith Professor of Physics at Harvard University, has been awarded the 2018 Lars Onsager Prize…
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India Conference at Harvard Set for Feb. 10-11, Speakers Include Indian Commerce Minister Suresh Prabhu
CAMBRIDGE, MA–The 15th annual edition of the India Conference organized by students of Harvard University will be held on 10th…
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Pain, joy, and wisdom
By Deborah Blackwell Harvard Correspondent/Harvard Gazette Students seeking knowledge go to Harvard. Students seeking wisdom go to Harvard Hall —…
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Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy Details Continued Course for Excellence
AMHERST, MA–UMass Amherst Chancellor Kumble R. Subbaswamy told the 13th annual Faculty Convocation on that the university is committed to…
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Applications Open for Online Harvard Business Analytics Program
BOSTON—Harvard Business School (HBS), the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Department of…
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Smartphones in class affect student’s ability to concentrate
Johannesburg–Allowing smartphones in class may affect the students’ ability to concentrate, eventually hampering their academic performance, warns a new research.…
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‘Genius’-level honor with $625,000 for Harvard historian Sunil Amrith
By Jill Radsken Harvard Staff Writer With a daughter just a week old, Sunil Amrith had good reason to be…
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