GSAS
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.”
