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  [### Italian Program Establishes Largest Cash Prize in Harvard’s Romance Languages Dept.

 ](https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/11/8/italian-prize-romance-languages/) November 08, 2024 

 The Diaco Prize for Best Composition in Italian will award $5,000 to concentrators or other undergraduates involved in the program for outstanding work. Nick C. Diaco ’04 and his family funded the award to encourage undergraduate travel to Italy. Chiara... 

 

 

   [### Applying AI—How and Why

 ](https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2024/03/jhj-ai-higher-education) February 14, 2024 

 Some professors have incorporated AI tools into their courses in innovative ways. A December 6 faculty presentation demonstrated some of the innovations being tested in classrooms. Senior preceptor in romance languages and literatures Nicole Mills... 

 

 

   [### VR, AR and AI will Transform Universities. Here’s How.

 ](https://unbound.upcea.edu/online-2/online-education/vr-ar-and-ai-will-transform-universities-heres-how/) April 01, 2019 

 Virtual solutions have also been developed that allow students to forgo expensive travel by practicing their language skills in VR scenarios with AI-powered animated characters. Students can feel less inhibited than in real-life interactions to improve... 

 

 

   [### Three Examples from the Field: AR and VR in Teaching and Research

 ](https://er.educause.edu/blogs/2018/8/three-examples-from-the-field-ar-and-vr-in-teaching-and-research) August 02, 2018 

 In Nicole Mills's French language and culture classes, students meet native speakers at parties in their homes and eavesdrop on conversations in Parisian cafés, all without leaving Cambridge. Cultural immersion is a tried-and-true element of language... 

 

 

   [### "Charlie" ou "pas Charlie", comment Harvard a décidé de tout archiver

 ](https://www.nouvelobs.com/attentats-terroristes-a-paris/20160708.OBS4267/charlie-ou-pas-charlie-comment-harvard-a-decide-de-tout-archiver.html) November 07, 2016 

 Habituellement, sa sœur l'appelle le dimanche pour prendre de ses nouvelles. Alors ce mercredi 7 janvier 2015, quand Virginie Greene a vu son numéro s'afficher sur son téléphone, elle a tout de suite compris qu'il s'était passé quelque chose. "La dernière... 

 

 

   [### The Charlie Archive documents a global response

 ](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/newsplus/the-charlie-archive-documents-a-global-response/) October 28, 2015 

 How does a library capture a global debate about freedom of the press? The attacks on the Paris headquarters of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket in January 2015 by Islamic extremists provoked a worldwide conversation through all...