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Sitting in a brightly lit classroom at the Stanford Business School three years ago, Matt Scott got to wondering what it would take to light the rest of the world. Artificial lighting may not seem a necessity like food or shelter, but 1.6 billion people around the globe lack access to electricity and the on-off switches we take for granted. Inspired by the Light Up the World Foundation, which promotes the use of energy-efficient light-emitting diodes (LEDs), Scott, now 31, traveled to India and in 2004 partnered with Amit Chugh to devise a market strategy for replacing...
Faculty and students praised activity-based learning (ABL) at an event at the Phillips Brooks House yesterday, saying the approach can bridge the divide between theory and practice in the Harvard curriculum. Also known as “Praxis Pedagogy,” ABL uses experiences outside the classroom to enrich student learning. Currently featured in about 13 undergraduate courses, ABL has been recommended as an integral part of the general education reforms that will replace the current Core Curriculum. “[ABL] helps you learn outside of the classroom in a way you can?...
Harvard creative writing teachers this week continued to grapple with the implications of the shootings at Virginia Tech—which were perpetrated by an English major whose disturbed mind first became known to university officials through the creative writing classroom...
...You’re not in a creative writing classroom very long before you can start to recognize who is working in some kind of way differently than what we expect of them,” Johnston said...
...great sadness that we learned that Houghton Professor of Chemistry and Interim Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles had abruptly stepped down from the deanship for health reasons. Knowles has been a strong presence on campus—be it in the lab, the classroom, or University Hall—for three decades, 11 of them as dean and as interim dean for the past nine months. In that time, he has built up a reputation for strong, yet understated leadership. It is no secret that this page has disagreed with Knowles on matters...