Today’s author is Sarah Rous, DTF for the Classics Department. On March 5–6 the Department of the Classics was pleased to welcome Jeff Beneker, Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as our visiting “distinguished teacher” and facilitator of a series of workshops and colloquia collectively dubbed the Distinguished Teaching Series. Our department…
Joana Pimenta, Film and Visual Studies PhD and Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) Teaching Fellow, talks to the Bok Center about the role of education in Brute, an exhibition at Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (CCVA) on view through April 7, 2013. Curated by VES professors Katarina Burin and Amie Siegel, Brute marks the…
Today’s author is Michael Gelbart, the DTF for the School of Engineering & Applied Sciences (SEAS). Salman Khan, founder of the Khan Academy, recently published his first book, The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined. For those not familiar with it, the Khan Academy is an online education nonprofit with the mission statement, “A free world class…
Today’s author is Dave Watson, the DTF for the Statistics Department. On October 25th, the famous statistician Hans Rosling delivered the Second David Pickard Memorial Lecture. The David Pickard Memorial Endowment Fund and Lecture celebrates the memory of David Pickard, an outstanding teacher and mentor in the Harvard Statistics Department from 1977 to 1985, who…
Today’s author is Sarah Rous, DTF for the Classics Department. Her eloquent review shows how communicative language teaching is influencing ancient language pedagogy. Talking About Dead Tongues: A Review of When Dead Tongues Speak: Teaching Beginning Greek and Latin, edited by John Gruber-Miller (2006). American Philological Association Classical Resources Series 6. Oxford: Oxford UP. For…
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