Nina R. W. Cohen, who when a high school student attended Harvard Extension School as a Lowell Scholar, was recently named as one of 32 United States Rhodes Scholars for 2012.
In this lecture, award-winning Colgate University professor and expert in the astronomical history of the Aztec and Maya Indians of ancient Mexico, Anthony F. Aveni, explores and measures the theories surrounding this “impending” apocalypse.
Caroline Elkins was named the first of three “expert witnesses,” historians who were called upon to provide evidence to the High Court of Justice in London on alleged crimes that happened under British rule against the Mau Mau insurgents.
Active duty Navy Commander and 2011 Harvard Extension School ALM grad Ted Johnson has been selected to participate in the prestigious White House Fellows program.
In an upcoming WGBH-FM interview, Associate Dean Sue Weaver Schopf shares her deep knowledge of love poetry from Shakespeare to modern times on The Callie Crossley Show, this Valentine’s Day, Tuesday, February 14.
Unfinished Business, a new exhibit by Annette Lemieux, presents a combination of new work with work revisited to reveal the relationship between object, mediated memory, personal experience and cultural history.
This spring, the writing program is sponsoring a journalism film series in conjunction with June Erlick’s new course, From Watergate to Wikileaks: Journalism Ethics through Film.
A film produced by Harvard Extension School graduate Ryan Slattery, ALB '09, has been selected to screen at the prestigious 2012 Sundance Film Festival later this month.
Sustainability and carbon management experts Richard Goode and Stelios Pesmajoglou team up this spring as the new instructors for Planning for Carbon Neutrality: Practical Methods for Implementing Greenhouse Gas Reduction.
Harvard History Professor Maya Jasanoff has won a Recognition of Excellence Award for her book, Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World.
The Twilight series has often been assailed by critics, but Sue Weaver Schopf, associate dean for the Master of Liberal Arts program at Harvard Extension School, isn’t one of them.
The Harvard and Slavery Research Project will launch Harvard and Slavery: Seeking a Forgotten History, a booklet based on the research of several dozen Harvard students who set out to answer the question: "Did Harvard have links to slavery in the course of its 375-year history?"
An ancient manuscript and the hidden bones of St. Thomas Becket lead a historian into unexpected danger in Harvard Extension School instructor Mary Malloy's latest novel, Paradise Walk.
Jerome Groopman, MD, and Pamela Hartzband, MD, co-authors of several articles for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the New England Journal of Medicine, join the Harvard Writers at Work lecture series this Monday.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg returned to Harvard recently for his first official visit since dropping out in 2004. His visit included a short press conference and a Q&A recruiting event for 200 select computer science students, including 10 from Harvard Extension School.
Could a forest be worth more than a gold mine to a developing country whose economy is heavily reliant on copper and gold extraction? Sustainability and environmental management graduate Jason Sohigian, ALM '11, posed this stirring question during a recent TEDx Yerevan, talk.
Sue Weaver Schopf, instructor for the course Vampire in Literature and Film, was interviewed by NPR for their Here and Now segment. The interview was recently rebroadcasted across the nation.
Tina Packer, director, actor and scholar, will look at the way Shakespeare wrote his women characters, and how that writing evolved over his 20-year writing career.
Allyson Reneau dropped out of the University of Oklahoma in 1981 to get married and start a family. She promised herself she would return to school after her first child turned 5. Thirty years and 11 children later, Reneau is finally fulfilling her promise and the Today Show took notice.
In observance of Constitution Day, to commemorate the signing of the United States Constitution on September 17, 1787, Harvard University will offer a special lecture.
Students in Environmental Management of International Tourism Development will utilize Harvard’s new WorldMap digital mapping program to begin to document environmental management issues for tourism worldwide.
View the awards and prizes offered at the end of the 2010–11 academic year to deserving and hard-working Extension School students and faculty members.
Local author and former Extension School student Steve Ulfelder just published his first novel Purgatory Chasm, having workshopped it in his creative writing classroom.
Extension School astronomy student Nathalie Miebach is an artist who delved into the science of her course to create some new and interesting sculptures, as featured in the New York Times.
Reading aloud is a tradition that dates to antiquity, a sort of literary heirloom handed down to each epoch. And today the custom endures, particularly through nonstop, marathon reading events.
Matthew Nock, who researches the psychology of suicide and self-injury, is among the recipients of this year’s MacArthur Foundation fellowship, along with three other Harvard colleagues.
A college education is not optional. That was what my parents said to me. As I grew older, I knew they were right in that funny way that parents usually are but that we don’t want to admit.
For the duration of the winter break and subject to certain conditions, a Harvard ID will not be required to access Harvard Yard between 7 am and 10 pm.