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ChinaX has global ambitions

ChinaX has global ambitions

October 24, 2013

While online courses from HarvardX have reached more than half a million students globally, less than 1 percent of the participants are in China. Technology and culture may be partly to blame for the low early enrollments. YouTube and other popular social media sites are banned there. English courses offer Chinese subtitles, but primarily cater to audiences familiar with Western, liberal arts approaches to learning.

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Harvard’s Semitic Museum is set for big changes Boston Globe 10/19/2013

October 19, 2013

"Among the many arresting objects in the collection of Harvard University’s Semitic Museum are three small bird mummies, which were collected from somewhere near Luxor, in Egypt, near the end of the 19th century. On Jan. 22 this year, all three were subjected to CT scans, or high resolution X-ray computed tomography, by Emma Sherratt, then a Harvard postdoctoral fellow."...

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RCE version 6 Beta 2

October 18, 2013

The second beta release of RCE version 6 is available for use.  This is a stable release and can be relied on for most production work.  If you are interested in working in the new RCE6 point your NX session to rce6.hmdc.harvard.edu.  If you find a bug please contact our support team and add "RCE6 Bug", followed by a 2 or 3 word description of the issue in the subject line, then add a more detailed description of the issue in the message body.

Don’t miss our research at SHRM on October 30!

Don’t miss our research at SHRM on October 30!

October 17, 2013

Network researchers Ellen Kossek and Ginger Hanson will be presenting at the Society for Human Resource Management’s 2013 Workflex Conference. Their presentation, Redesign the Workplace for Wellness: New Evidence about Work, Families and Health in Practice, will highlight the links between work conditions and wellness; talk about our evidence-based workplace intervention; and give preliminary research findings from our study. Don’t miss this chance to see a sneak peak at study results. Learn how rethinking work...

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