We are excited to share our annual report from the 2017-18 academic year!  Check out highlights of our activities over the past year, and read stories of our collaborations with faculty and students.

Applications for Harvard Horizons 2018 are open now and are due on October 12! Apply now!... Read more about Apply to Harvard Horizons

The 2018 Fall Teaching Conference may have ended, but another year of Bok programming has just begun!

... Read more about Hotter Than Hot: The Fall Teaching Conference Kicks Off a New School Year

On May 2, the Bok Center hosted our second annual Spring Showcase, featuring the amazing ways in which our faculty and student partners are transforming teaching at Harvard.  The Bok Center has created a vibrant intergenerational community of teachers and learners, who have worked tirelessly throughout the year to create inspiring and innovative courses and programs.... Read more about Spring Showcase a Smashing Success

Held on the evening of 11 April, the sixth annual Harvard Horizons Symposium featured the research of eight stellar Harvard PhD candidates. Under the guidance of the Bok Center's experts in professional and scholarly communication, the scholars have worked intensively together since January, honing their skills and building a sense of community that reaches across their disciplinary boundaries.

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The ABLConnect Teaching Innovator Prize celebrates Harvard University instructors for their development and use of active learning exercises in their classes, and we would love to post a teaching activity you used in class to the website.... Read more about ABLConnect Teaching Innovator Prize Application Now Open

... Read more about 2018-2019 Graduate Fellow Applications Now Open

Yanpeng Sun, PhD ’19, had never been abroad until he came to Harvard from China in 2013 to pursue his doctorate in structural geology. “It was a bit scary at the beginning,” he recalls. Although Sun had started learning English at age 11, he needed to improve his oral skills before assuming his teaching fellow responsibilities.

Thanks to the Bok Center’s Professional Communication Program for International Teachers and Scholars—and with considerable personal drive and support from his faculty advisor—Sun has greatly enhanced his grammar, vocabulary, and conversational...