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Based on cognitive-behavioral-therapy techniques, Vincent's virtual therapy combines videos, text and audio clips to teach the sleepless everything about good sleep hygiene, from how to relax the body before getting into bed to how not to stress out when you fail to doze off right away. (One of the worst things you can do when you can't fall asleep is lie there and dwell on the consequences of not getting enough sleep.) Participants in her study were asked to keep digital sleep diaries and practice the techniques that were demonstrated onscreen. They were also allowed...
...concepts, into thinking in “educated” terms. Gen Ed, on the other hand, aims to “connect in an explicit way what students learn at Harvard to life beyond Harvard” such that it is revealed “how everything we teach in the arts and sciences relates to their lives.” The Core sees education as a kind of professional training in different types of academic thinking. Gen Ed—insofar as its rather generic and all-encompassing mandate can be formulated at all—seems...
...death. The experience inspired Rosenthal to pursue medicine. He even chose to specialize in hematology, the study of blood diseases like leukemia. Rosenthal always stayed close to Harvard. He attended Tufts Medical School, worked at hospitals in the Boston area, and then, in 1982, returned to Harvard to teach at the Medical School. Barbara J. McNeil, head of the department of health care policy at the Medical School, was a member of the search committee that selected Rosenthal as director of UHS. “The attractive features about him when we hired him certainly worked out to be true...
...move in together and spend the rest of our lives together, that was kind of the logical step, so I was really excited about it,” said Donahue, a Georgia native. After Donahue graduates, the couple will move to Rio Grande Valley, Texas where she will teach elementary school through Teach for America and he will work as an Edward Jones financial advisor. The couple plans to wed on June 6 of next year, but have yet to decide if they will be married in Massachusetts or in Texas. Donahue said it will likely...
...editor Maxim Trudolyubov will study the interaction of opinion journalism with contemporary media and society. In response to the journalism industry’s diminishing reliance on print media and its transition to more technologically advanced forms of reporting, the Foundation will introduce a yearlong multimedia curriculum designed to teach the fellows new media skills. The Nieman Foundation, which administers the oldest mid-career fellowship program for journalists in the world, has supported more than 1,300 journalists from 89 countries since its inception in 1938. --Staff writer Monica S. Liu can be reached at msliu@fas.harvard.edu...