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Mazur Group members win award at international conference on teaching and learning

January 14, 2013
"Using early warning signs to predict academic risk in interactive teaching environments," a paper by Mazur Group members, Julie Schell and Brian Lukoff and their colleague Cassandre Alvarado at UT-Austin was selected for a best paper award at the 2013 Higher Education Teaching and Learning Conference. Read more about Mazur Group members win award at international conference on teaching and learning

Nathan Sanders was awarded Harvard's "Bowdoin Prize in the Natural Sciences"

January 10, 2013

Harvard Astronomy graduate student Nathan Sanders was recently awarded Harvard's "Bowdoin Prize in the Natural Sciences" for his essay entitled "Observing the Twenty-First Century Sky and Understanding the Universe."

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Avi Loeb's books has been selected for the Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award by the American Astronomical Society

January 8, 2013

Avi Loeb's book has been selected for the Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award by the American Astronomical Society. The award is for Avi's first book, "How Did the First Stars and Galaxies Form?", published by Princeton University Press in 2010.

You may learn more about the book at:
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9373.html

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Effectiveness of therapy for suicidal teenagers (NY Times)

January 8, 2013
Most adolescents who plan or attempt suicide have already received at least some mental health treatment, raising questions about the effectiveness of current approaches to helping troubled youths, according to the largest in-depth analysis to date of suicidal behaviors in American teenagers.

HEEP Releases Two New Discussion Papers

January 3, 2013

The Harvard Environmental Economics Program regularly releases discussion papers that cover a range of topics in environmental economics. Two new papers were posted on January 3, 2013, both by HEEP Faculty Fellow Michael Toffel and colleagues. Topics include the impact of governmental mandates on the private sector regarding the adoption of the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standard, and how some firms choose to selectively disclose their environmental performance...

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