Harvard University

By Betsy Morais Harvard: “The second most famous Anne in the history of keeping a diary” catches up with the fastest pudding in the history of pudding. Columbia: Scientists get more comfortable with one another’s bodies (of work) at the new interdisciplinary science building. Yale: Students hope to bec...

By Betsy Morais Penn: The Ivy league’s application pool rises, the DP reports, with Penn up 17 percent because “just like hot cars and cool clothes, college popularity inevitably waxes and wanes.” Is Penn hot or cool?Yale: With Yale’s slight drop in applications, the YDN concludes that, as in golf, the l...

By Robbie Berg Harvard, in the midst of financial meltdown and machete attack, is in a rebuilding year for its sexy–and is relying on JT himself to bring it back.  Hasty Pudding, Harvard’s ancient theatrical society, has named Justin Timberlake the recipient of its “Man of the Year” award.  Calling him “...

By MJG Image by kfdavila from photos tagged "Bostonist" on Flickr. It's called the iPad, it's just $499, and, yes, you have to get it. [AP via Yahoo!News]According to Governor Deval Patrick, the state's budget should be $28.2 billion for the next fiscal year. [Boston Globe]Abercrombie's Farring...

By Daniel D'Addario Gawker points us to a 2001 Crimson profile of America’s next top conservative pundit, and erstwhile Harvard student, Ross Douthat. In the dwindling of Kristol’s limelight and Glenn Beck moving to some off-the-grid commune with his followers (a boy can dream!), Douthat is one of the more...

By Daniel D'Addario There’s trouble in Cambridge: the Times reports that three Harvard medical researchers have been subpoenaed as part of a Congressional inquiry into unethical ties between medical professionals and the drug industry — specifically, whether antidepressants were improperly market...

By David J. Miller Mr. Menand also offers some interesting, if undeveloped, ideas about the reform of graduate education, noting that the path to a Ph.D. is too long (10 years or more for students in the humanities) and that it ends up “overtraining” students for the jobs that are available. Referring to doctor...

By Alex Klein “I want to go to Princeton… I don’t know why, but I think of all Harvard men as sissies, like I used to be, and all Yale men as wearing big blue sweaters and smoking pipes. Monsignor chuckled.” “I’m one, you know.” ”Oh, you’re different—I think of Princeton as being lazy and good-looking and ari...

By Brice Reynolds According to the Crimson: After the jump, videos from On Harvard Time, our favorite quotes about quidditch, and the picture of Rowling getting groped. As usual, On Harvard Time nails it. This one features a young boy in a leotard with fairy wings.

Even Harvard University, long a rock of economic stability in Greater Boston, had to lay off hundreds of workers in 2009 due to multibillion-dollar losses ... and more »

Harvard University built the plant - which is powered by natural gas and diesel - in the late 1970s for its Harvard-affiliated institutions in the area, ... and more »

Lisa M. Coleman has been named chief diversity officer for Harvard University. Coleman, who has served in a similar capacity at Tufts University for the ... Diversity director Coleman plans to leave for HarvardTufts Daily all 2 news articles »

Soheyla D. Gharib, the chief of medicine at Harvard University Health Services, said she has seen a slight decline in the number of students coming into the ...

The undefeated streak of the Harvard women's basketball team at home survived another night—and double overtime—as the Crimson defeated Northeastern (5-3), ... Huskies nipped by Harvard 90-85 in 2 OTNortheastern Huskies all 2 news articles »

In February 2010, Subramanian will publish Negotiauctions: New Dealmaking Strategies for a Competitive Marketplace, a book that draws on his experience studying and advising on complex corporate transactions and high-stakes personal transactions such as buying a home or car. The f...

By Molly Fitzpatrick Stay tuned for the next installment——matching a sorely disadvantaged African-American with unwelcoming WASPs is one historically demonstrated to cause hilarious tension. We wish Khadijah the best at Harvard, at least until the Cambridge Police arrest her for trying to get into her o...

By Robyn Schneider And, in essence, the plot itself is flip-cup played on mahogany—McDonell writes of a silly game made dangerous by money, power and connections. He writes of Harvard in a way that only a recent graduate can, and he writes well.  If you’re looking for a fast, engaging read for the train or plane...

By Max Wasserman Whether Emma Watson is truly “incredibly academic” or just really devoted to method acting in playing Hermione Granger, she aced her A-levels. That plus $4.5 billion worldwide gross is more than enough for her to get in at Cambridge, so it’s unlikely that Harvard and Yale would have reject...

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).

Over the following years, I held a number of secretarial jobs in Cambridge, including one at Harvard. I loved being back at the University, and the highlight of each day was walking through the Yard and eating lunch on the steps of the Memorial Church. While working for the University, I took...

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 ...

 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 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 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 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...

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 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) I have been a close observer of, and often a participant in, the life of Harvard University since graduating from the Law School in 1967. A resident of the Harvard Square area in Cambridge, I find myself on the campus often. I am a long-time affiliate-in-law of Dunster House at the College (ap...

Summers was driven out of Harvard following his remarks. In September 2007, he was dropped as the keynote speaker at a University of California Board of Regents meeting when a female professor circulated a petition to have his invitation withdrawn. And give Summers a break.

By Alex Carnevale Since we're such big fans of Time book critic Lev Grossman, this week's review of John Updike's latest book troubles us that much more. Updike apparently has images of Grossman tearing through The Da Vinci Code somewhere, because we can't think of any other reason to toss Philip Roth aside...

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 “[O]ne may not safely say in Harvard Yard what is constitutionally protected in Harvard Square. The same may be said for just about every campus where there once was a hallowed hall of learning.“ And answered: Here’s how Harvard in the News summarized Silverglate’s argument against HLS:

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 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...

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Kirkland Student Dies  MA - Edwards was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Harvard University Police Department. Firefighters were called to the scene to investigate the ... Kirkland Sophomore Found Dead at Medical School Harvard Crimson all 3 news articles

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...

 MA - Jamila R. Martin ’07—a leader of Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM), which is currently waging its own campaign against Coke—said Michigan ...

 MA - a statement in November attacking Summers for purportedly leaking to The Crimson word of ... all that I have received so far,” Hoxby, a Harvard College professor ... Seven Undergraduates Chosen To Serve on Student Advisory Committee ... Harvard Crimson all 2 related

Student satisfaction with Harvard’s residential dining halls has reached an all-time high, yet students still hanker for greater menu variety, including more seafood and vegetarian entrees, according to the biannual survey conducted by Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS).

It took a near-perfect performance to finally end the Harvard men’s basketball team’s perfect start. Behind guard Justin Chirea’s 7-for-10 shooting from behind the arc, Central Connecticut State (CCSU) stormed past the Crimson (5-1) for an 87-79 victory on Saturday afternoon at Lavi...