Harvard University

By Max Wasserman Columbia: Lerner Hall will no longer be open 24/7 due to the economy, but you can still look inside anytime from anywhere Cornell: Former Cornell star goalie Dave McKee has been charged with rape in southern California, Kobe Bryant not returning his calls Dartmouth: The reign of Jim Yong...

Date of Event:October 13, 2008Moderator:Forest Reinhardt, HBS facultySpeakers:Jim Barry, Chief Executive, Ntr Plc David Blood, Managing Partner, Generation Investment Management James McCarthy, Harvard University faculty

By MJG If your business is struggling this month, just look out the window to get the reason for it. [Boston Globe] Speaking of the weather...Is June 2009 the worst June ever? [Boston Globe]Harvard University has plans to lay off approximately 275 employees in administrative, professional, cler...

By Rick Sawyer Layoffs have been hanging over the heads of Harvard employees like the sword of Damocles since word of staff reductions started to circulate in February. Today, Harvard President Drew Faust let workers know that the string was about to snap, the sword was about to fall, and heads were abou...

By Max Wasserman “[There was] the tour of a certain Ivy League campus wherein a certain B-rate comedian turned almost-senator (and alumnus of said institution) huffed, sighed, squatted, and wisecracked his way through said tour—to his son’s chagrin, and everyone else’s disgust.” — a 2007 Yale alumnu...

By Rick Sawyer Image of one woman's haul from the Harvard Book Store Warehouse labeled "Bostonist" by Flickr user GirlieErin. Warehouses We have it on good authority that the Harvard Book Store's annual warehouse sale, which began yesterday, is not completely shopped out. Find walls and walls of used a...

Date of Event:October 14, 2008Speaker:Lawrence H. Summers, Director of the White House National Economic Council, and Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University In this keynote address, former Harvard president Lawrence Summers shared his view of the challenges fac...

Frans Spaepen, director of the Rowland Institute, will serve as interim director of Harvard University’s Center for Nanoscale Systems (CNS) starting July 1, upon completion of his term as interim dean of Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).

African Studies 2009 undergraduate grant recipients Connie Chung, a Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) doctoral student: “Gender in Place and Relationship: The Relational and Spatial World of Street Girls in Zambia and Tanzania.”

lt;p> <img src="http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2009/06.04/photos/ehler.jpg" alt="Victor Ehler" /> </p> <p> Harvard is in my blood, though not in the traditional sense. I was born and brought up in Cambridge, Mass., as were my mother and her siblings. My gran...

lt;p> <img src="http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2009/06.04/photos/ChungSM.jpg" alt="Hannah Chung" /> </p> <p><br/> As thousands of Harvard students celebrate their graduation in grand style, the first graduating class from a project across t...

lt;p> <img src="http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2009/06.04/photos/may.jpg" alt="Ernest May" /> </p> <p> Ernest May, a renowned historian of international relations and foreign policy and professor of history at Harvard University, died on June 1 at Be...

VatorNews  NC CAMBRIDGE, MA - Twitter grew rapidly in recent months, but a Harvard University study found that most users are men talking to men. The study looked at a random sample of 300000 Twitter users in May 2009. It found that while men and women follow a ...

By Adam Clark Estes The recent shooting on Harvard’s campus stinks like a drug deal gone bad, and there are text messages to prove it. A recent article in the Crimson, who have actually been kind of awesome in covering the scoop, details how text messages recovered from victim Justin Cosby’s phone threw up som...

By Adam Clark Estes Before the sound of the TV news ‘copters faded after the shooting at Harvard today, another student got almost stabbed outside of the Crimson building. The victim of the shooting was not a Harvard student, it turns out, but the knifepoint mugging victim definitely was. Already a day full of...

 MA 47, a physician and sociologist at Harvard University, challenges this idea. Using data from a study that tracked about 5000 people over 20 years, he suggests that happiness, like the flu, can spread from person to person. ...

By Kerry Skemp “When faculty members decide on graduate students, they will have to teach the students,” Lamont points out. “There’s a balance between power and influence” when deciding what students to take. The “ongoing relationship from year to year” between faculty members requires them to “keep...

By Lucian Bebchuk, Harvard Law School, The Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance recently issued The Elusive Quest for Global Governance Standards, a discussion paper I co-authored with Professor Assaf Hamdani. The paper is scheduled for publication in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Our slides fr...

By Max Wasserman Yale’s men’s ice hockey team showed Harvard the proper way to beat the second-worst team in men’s collegiate hockey. Tip number one: score goals. The Bulldogs eliminated Brown from the ECAC Hockey playoffs in straight games, scoring six goals on the weekend. That’s six more than Harvard sc...

By Max Wasserman Sure, Yale’s men’s basketball team fell at Princeton this weekend, but they made great strides in a sport the Elis don’t care about. Yale’s men’s ice hockey team beat Cornell 4-2 on Friday to clinch the regular season conference title. The conference in question is the ECAC Hockey League, a...

By djones Radio Berkman pokes its head into a recent talkback with the directors of the film Secrecy, Harvard University professors Peter Galison and Robb Moss. They are joined by Harvard Law School professors Jonathan Zittrain, Martha Minow, and Jack Goldsmith.

By crhinesmith@cyber.law.harvard.edu (Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School) Radio Berkman pokes its head into a recent talkback with the directors of the film Secrecy, Harvard University professors Peter Galison and Robb Moss. They are joined by Harvard Law School professors Jonathan Zittrain, Martha Minow, and Jack Goldsmith.

By rss@youtube.com (hlslib) High resolution version available at http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/research/tutorials/index.html. This tutorial shows how to determine if newspapers are available in electronic or online format at Harvard University.

By rss@youtube.com (hlslib) High resolution version available at http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/research/tutorials/index.html. This tutorial shows how to determine if Harvard University has a newspaper in microfiche, microfilm, or print. It's advised to watch the video on Finding Newspapers in Electron...

By rss@youtube.com (hlslib) High resolution version available at http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/research/tutorials/index.html. This video tutorial will show you how to determine whether a document you've found on the web is something that is accessible to members of the Harvard University community via a...

By rss@youtube.com (hlslib) High resolution version available at http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/research/tutorials/index.html. This tutorial shows how to make requests for items that are held at the Harvard Depository, which is off-site from the Law Library, and all of the other Harvard Libraries.

By rss@youtube.com (hlslib) High resolution version available at http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/research/tutorials/index.html. This tutorial shows how to use Citation Linker at Harvard University. This tool should be used if you already have a complete citation to document that appears in a journal or news...

The University of Pennsylvania saw a decrease in the total number of applications for the Class of 2013, according to The Daily Pennsylvanian. Penn received a total of 22,845 applications, 90 fewer than last year. While the university saw a slight increase in regular decision applicatio...

By Matt Feltz From geeks looking for love in Cambridge to the essence of our vast expanding universe, and everything in between, 2008 proved to be an eventful year for science in Boston. No doubt there will be more of the same next year, and we'll be there to keep you informed...and hopefully entertained.

By ksmeallie@harveysilverglate.com (Kyle Smeallie) Harvey and Bob are seeking the support of all Harvard degree-holders, which includes alumni of Harvard College and any of the constituency professional and graduate schools. To sign a nomination form, send me (Harvey's research assistant) an e-mail at kyle@harveysilverglate.com. Beg...

By JWM(noreply@blogger.com) On Dec. 2 Harvard President Drew G. Galpin released a Financial Update, one of a number of recent letters she's released and interviews she's granted in which she's sought to keep the Harvard community informed as to the current value of Harvard's endowment and specific budgeting plans fo...

By greg@thefire.org (Greg Lukianoff) Federal "harassment" regulations have thus become a convenient tool - actually, a cover - for the university to censor student speech in ways that would be unconstitutional were Harvard a public university to which the First Amendment applies. Remarkably, even student-authored paro...

By C. Fernsebner Tonight is "The Game," which guarantees that the bars of Cambridge will be clogged with "Teh Douche." Bostonist is researching the thematically-correct home-drinking alternatives: Harvard Cocktail Yale Cocktail Harvard Cooler Yale Punch

By Stephen Mo Hanan For me, the legacy of the Sixties has been my journey from Puritan to convict, or at least renegade. When I arrived at Harvard in the fall of '64, I was a Goldwater Republican. How did that happen? Like any impressionable and obedient teenager, I was under the influence of my father.

Loss to Dartmouth stirs Dutchmen vs. Harvard The Dutchmen outshot Harvard 17-0 the rest of the period and got the powerplay goals from Cook and Caffaro. Union outshot Harvard 21-9 in the period. UNION 3, HARVARD 1 Harvard 0 1 0 ? 1 Shots on goal?Harvard 7-9-12?28, Union 5-21-6?32

The Engineers had 10 power-play opportunities against the Crimson, but didn't convert until late in the third period. Ice chips Opponents: Harvard, Dartmouth Records: Harvard, 2-0-0 (2-0-0 ECAC); RPI, 1-5-1 (0-1-0) Opponents: Dartmouth, Harvard

By noreply@blogger.com (Peter Suber) Harvard had been one of five academic libraries—along with Stanford, Oxford, Michigan, and the New York Public Library—to partner with Google when the book scanning initiative was announced in October 2004. University officials said that Harvard would continue its policy of only all...

By ZapperZ Chemistry - Charles Lieber of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who figured out how to build and use tiny, molecular-scale nanowires. - Krzysztof Matyjaszewski of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh who used electric ...

The case method has become synonymous with education for management. In fact, it was derived in the early 20th Century from training for the law at Harvard by several members of the Harvard Business School faculty. And in other forms, it serves the medical and other professions as well. A kin...

By David Giacalone ” . . . Interestingly, it was Harvard Law School, regarded by many as the apex of legal education (and located in the heart of liberal Cambridge) that early grappled with the appropriateness of punishing students for engaging in satire and parody. With the eyes of the higher-education elite w...

By James Yu Ouch. Maybe Forbes has a point about the attention liberal arts colleges can provide their students, and about certain schools floating comfortably on their reputations, but saying Dartmouth students “are not particularly happy with the quality of their instruction” smells a bit fis...

By Sean Of course, certain individual faculty members at Harvard might be great teachers and care deeply about their students; but that’s a bonus, not a feature of the institution. (Harvey Mansfield, to a visiting colleague: “You should close your door. If you don’t, undergraduates may wander i...

By Adam Goldenberg Rich people and the money they give to rich universities Like it or not, we are the beneficiaries of our benefactors’ beneficience. BY Adam Goldenberg PUBLISHED: May 1 2008 - 1:14am TAGS: LOCAL alumni donations Earlier this week, David Rockefeller ’36 gave $100 million to Harvard. That’s...

The Voice aims to bridge the disconnect that exists between what people are interested in reading and what is being published. That is, we aim to address the lack of responsiveness that characterizes the current model of journalistic media – particularly, media within the Harvard commu...

Nice article by Behance Network founder Scott Belsky of Harvard Business School. Its not often that we get first hand accounts from entrepreneurs like this article in the Harbus (the student weekly at Harvard Business School). There is a lot to learn from active campus entrepreneurs like...

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Bikini Politics, which boasts "the body-politic will never be the same," is run by Harvard grad student Paloma Zepeda. It's not so much a women's issues blog as a news blog in the inflection of women's issues. We all know what that means.

By James Joyner David Bell wonders, “Why don’t we study military history?” At Harvard this spring, for instance, only two of 85 history courses focus mainly on war. This is not surprising, because Harvard does not have a single specialist in military history among the 58 members of its history departmen...

By fire@thefire.org (Gary Shapiro) Mark Moyar doesn’t exactly fit the stereotype of a disappointed job seeker. He is an Eagle Scout who earned a summa cum laude degree from Harvard, graduating first in the history department before earning a doctorate at the University of Cambridge in England. Before he had even begun gradu...

My guest for this week's podcast is John Wilkin. He's the director of the University of Michigan Library's technology department, and coordinator of the library's joint digitization project with Google. It's been two years since Google began partnering with the University of Michigan...