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Posted on April 21, 2013 by Harvard Gazette
As a region-wide lockdown closed Harvard, University officials struggled with the difficult decision to cancel Visitas, Harvard College’s program for newly admitted students. Members of the Harvard community used social media to reach out to those who had planned to attend the event.
Tags: Boston Marathon, Campus & Community, Colleen Walsh, Facebook, Harvard College, Logan Airport, Marathon Bombing, Massport, On Campus, Phillips Brooks House, Twitter, William R. Fitzsimmons
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Posted on April 5, 2013 by Harvard Gazette
This week, Harvard Business School celebrated 50 years of women in its M.B.A. program with a summit that drew hundreds of the School’s female graduates to campus. But as a new alumni survey demonstrates — and as speakers like “Lean In” author Sheryl Sandberg acknowledged — women still have a long way to go to in the working world.
Tags: Anne Ristau, Business, Drew Faust, Education, Facebook, Gender, Harvard Business School, Katie Koch, Leadership, National & World Affairs, Nitin Nohria, Robin Ely, Sheryl Sandberg, W50 Summit, Women, “Lean In
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Posted on March 12, 2013 by Harvard Gazette
Melissa Block ’83, the host of National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered,” returned to campus to discuss her career and the changing landscape of digital media.
Tags: Campus & Community, Cokie Roberts, Colleen Walsh, Facebook, Linda Wertheimer, National Public Radio, Nina Totenberg, NPR, On Campus, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Radio, Susan Stamberg, Twitter, “All Things Considered, ” Melissa Block
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Posted on March 5, 2013 by Harvard Gazette
Scholars convened at the Harvard Graduate School of Education to explore the topic of bullying and potential ways forward.
Tags: Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Born This Way Foundation, Bullying, Colleen Walsh, Culture & Society, Emily Bazelon, Facebook, Harvard Graduate School of Education, HarvardScience, Lady Gaga, Oprah Winfrey, R.J. Palacio, Richard Weissbourd, Slate, Twitter
Posted in Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Born This Way Foundation, Bullying, Colleen Walsh, Culture & Society, Emily Bazelon, Facebook, Harvard Graduate School of Education, HarvardScience, Lady Gaga, Oprah Winfrey, R.J. Palacio, Richard Weissbourd, Slate, Twitter | Comments Off
Posted on February 11, 2013 by Harvard Gazette
Scholars are beginning to learn what’s working and what’s not when it comes to using new media to get people to do what you want, and a conference on “Behavioral Economics, Social Media, and Apps” at Harvard Law School Feb. 6 brought together experts from academia and business to discuss it.
Tags: David Laibson, Engineering & Technology, Facebook, Harvard Law School, HarvardScience, Lucia Huntington, Opower, Organ donation, Sendhil Mullainathan, Sheryl Sandberg, social media
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Posted on February 7, 2013 by Harvard Gazette
Nine years after he helped Harvard roommate Mark Zuckerberg launch Facebook, Chris Hughes ’06 returned to campus to discuss his latest underdog venture: his plan to reinvigorate the ailing but venerable magazine The New Republic.
Tags: Digital Media, Facebook, Harvard Kennedy School, Journalism, Katie Koch, National, National & World Affairs, Shorenstein Center, social media, The New Republic
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Posted on February 7, 2013 by Harvard Gazette
Nine years after he helped Harvard roommate Mark Zuckerberg launch Facebook, Chris Hughes ’06 returned to campus to discuss his latest underdog venture: his plan to reinvigorate the ailing but venerable magazine The New Republic.
Tags: Digital Media, Facebook, Harvard Kennedy School, Journalism, Katie Koch, National, National & World Affairs, Shorenstein Center, social media
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Posted on February 7, 2013 by Harvard Gazette
Nine years after he helped Harvard roommate Mark Zuckerberg launch Facebook, Chris Hughes ’06 returned to campus to discuss his latest underdog venture: his plan to reinvigorate the ailing but venerable magazine The New Republic.
Tags: Chris Hughes, Digital Media, Facebook, Harvard Kennedy School, Journalism, Katie Koch, National, National & World Affairs, Shorenstein Center, social media, The New Republic
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Posted on May 24, 2012 by Harvard Gazette
A fond look back at the memorable events of Harvard’s 375th year.
Tags: 2011 National Humanities Medals, 2012 Rhodes Scholars, 375th anniversary, Adam G. Riess, Alan T. Waterman Award, Alison Simmons, Allan M. Brandt, Alumni, Amartya Sen, Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, Arthur Kleinman, Arts First, Basketball, Benedict Gross, Born This Way Foundation, Brett Rosenberg, Brian P. Schmidt, Brogan Berry, Buddhist ministry studies, Campus & Community, Cancer, Christine Clark, Christopher A. Sims, Commencement, Commencement 2012, communal recitation of poetry, Conversations@FAS, David Charbonneau, David Hempton, David Obert, Dilma Rousseff, Donald Ingber, Drew Faust, Early Action program, edX, Elaine Scarry, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Emily Rauh Pulitzer, Evelynn M. Hammonds, face transplant surgery, Facebook, Fannie Cox Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching, Farish Jenkins, Farkas Hall, Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development, Football, Graduate School of Design 75th Anniversary, Harvard Allston Partnership Fund, Harvard Art Museums, Harvard College Professorships, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard Innovation Lab, Harvard Kennedy School 75th Anniversary, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Thinks Big, Harvard Thinks Big 2012, Hasty Pudding Theatricals, Henry Kissinger, Hopi Hoekstra, Hubway, hurricane relief efforts, i-lab, India, James McAuley, John Harvard Book Celebration, Jonathan L. Walton, Jorie Graham, Joseph J. O’Donnell ’67, Katherine A. O’Donnell, Lady Gaga, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, Lionel Richie, Lizabeth Cohen, Mark Zuckerberg, Marshall Scholarship, Mather Multimedia Lab, Matthews Mmopi, Maya Jasanoff, National Institutes of Health, NCAA Division 1 Men’s Championship Basketball Tournament, Nobel Prize, Obesity, Occupy movement, Old Quincy House Test Project, Poetry, President Barack Obama, President’s Innovation Challenge, Quad Grille in Pforzheimer House, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Ralph M. Steinman, Richard Tarrant, Rita E. and Gustave M. Hauser, Robert Darnton, Robert J. Wood, ROTC, Samuel Galler, Saul Perlmutter ’81, Science & Cooking Public Lecture Series, Science Center plaza, Sept. 11, Spencer Lenfield, Stephen Greenblatt, Student Organization Center at Hilles, the Cabot Café, the Eliot House Grille, Thomas J. Sargent, Tim Murphy, Tommy Lee Jones ’69, Victoria Lippert, Wintersession 2012, Women's Basketball, Wynton Marsalis
Posted in 2011 National Humanities Medals, 2012 Rhodes Scholars, 375th anniversary, Adam G. Riess, Alan T. Waterman Award, Alison Simmons, Allan M. Brandt, Alumni, Amartya Sen, Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, Arthur Kleinman, Arts First, Basketball, Benedict Gross, Born This Way Foundation, Brett Rosenberg, Brian P. Schmidt, Brogan Berry, Buddhist ministry studies, Campus & Community, Cancer, Christine Clark, Christopher A. Sims, Commencement, Commencement 2012, communal recitation of poetry, Conversations@FAS, David Charbonneau, David Hempton, David Obert, Dilma Rousseff, Donald Ingber, Drew Faust, Early Action program, edX, Elaine Scarry, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Emily Rauh Pulitzer, Evelynn M. Hammonds, face transplant surgery, Facebook, Fannie Cox Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching, Farish Jenkins, Farkas Hall, Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development, Football, Graduate School of Design 75th Anniversary, Harvard Allston Partnership Fund, Harvard Art Museums, Harvard College Professorships, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard Innovation Lab, Harvard Kennedy School 75th Anniversary, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Thinks Big, Harvard Thinks Big 2012, Hasty Pudding Theatricals, Henry Kissinger, Hopi Hoekstra, Hubway, hurricane relief efforts, i-lab, India, James McAuley, John Harvard Book Celebration, Jonathan L. Walton, Jorie Graham, Joseph J. O’Donnell ’67, Katherine A. O’Donnell, Lady Gaga, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, Lionel Richie, Lizabeth Cohen, Mark Zuckerberg, Marshall Scholarship, Mather Multimedia Lab, Matthews Mmopi, Maya Jasanoff, National Institutes of Health, NCAA Division 1 Men’s Championship Basketball Tournament, Nobel Prize, Obesity, Occupy movement, Old Quincy House Test Project, Poetry, President Barack Obama, President’s Innovation Challenge, Quad Grille in Pforzheimer House, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Ralph M. Steinman, Richard Tarrant, Rita E. and Gustave M. Hauser, Robert Darnton, Robert J. Wood, ROTC, Samuel Galler, Saul Perlmutter ’81, Science & Cooking Public Lecture Series, Science Center plaza, Sept. 11, Spencer Lenfield, Stephen Greenblatt, Student Organization Center at Hilles, the Cabot Café, the Eliot House Grille, Thomas J. Sargent, Tim Murphy, Tommy Lee Jones ’69, Victoria Lippert, Wintersession 2012, Women's Basketball, Wynton Marsalis | Comments Off
Posted on May 11, 2012 by Harvard Gazette
“It’s important we focus on the future, not the past,” warned Richard Gingras, head of news products for Google. “We can’t reverse time.” Gingras came to the Nieman Journalism Lab Friday not as doomsayer from Silicon Valley to predict the demise of the news business, but rather to foresee a bright future.
Tags: Apple Computer, Business, Computational journalism, Engineering & Technology, Facebook, Google, Information Technology, Internet age, iPad, Joshua Benton, Journalism, Media, National & World Affairs, News business, News media, News models, Newspapers, Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, Nieman Journalism lab, Online media, Reporters, Richard Gingras, Salon Media Group, social media
Posted in Apple Computer, Business, Computational journalism, Engineering & Technology, Facebook, Google, Information Technology, Internet age, iPad, Joshua Benton, Journalism, Media, National & World Affairs, News business, News media, News models, Newspapers, Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, Nieman Journalism lab, Online media, Reporters, Richard Gingras, Salon Media Group, social media | Comments Off