Todd Rogers, Weatherhead Professor of Public Policy, will teach how to write so busy people read, understand, and respond to our messages. Everyone is busy. That’s why we skim emails, texts, forms, documents, and nearly everything else. In this workshop you will learn the practical cognitive science of communication, and the six actionable principles it generates. In addition to increasing the effectiveness of our messages, these principles make our communications more equitable and kinder by being more respectful of busy readers’ time and attention. This highly interactive session ends...

Join Senior Vice Provost Judy Singer for an informal lunch with other tenure-track faculty colleagues. These lunches, hosted throughout the academic year, are an opportunity to have an informal discussion and connect with faculty from across the University. 

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Join Senior Vice Provost Judy Singer for an informal lunch with other tenure-track faculty colleagues. These lunches, hosted throughout the academic year, are an opportunity to have an informal discussion and connect with faculty from across the University. 

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Join us for an introduction to Widener and Houghton Libraries. Often considered the flagship library, at Widener you will receive an introduction to the library's history and collections, an orientation to the building, and an overview of services available to library users. Houghton Library is Harvard’s primary rare book and manuscript library, and your time there will include visits to exhibition spaces and display rooms, a history of the building, and an overview of services available.

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