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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).

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 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...

But on a football field in Cambridge, Mass., another kind of event would take place, one that to this day is recalled as a symbolic and substantive example of the great paradigm shift that was the '60s. The event was the season-ending football game ...

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ABC News  MA - Feb 6, 2009 At Harvard there was Professor Agassiz who's really a giant. We're not far from Harvard University right here from our studios and many things are named ... Charles Darwin's 200th Anniversary EfluxMedia News

By Adam Clark Estes After the jump: skipping class, going nuts, and graduating happy! Plus, hating the Ivy League, leaving, and coming back by novelist Andrea Seigel. So get out while you can! And apply for grants while you’re gone, because the Ivy League has a dangerous amount of money.

By Adam Clark Estes ’s Guide to Admissions: Part IV Somewhere between F. Scott Fitzgerald’s untimely death and that Tom Green movie about Harvard, some misconceptions of the awesome Ivy League education have spiraled out of control. First of all, the classes are not that difficult—seriously. And if you don’...

By philg The Harvard professor objected “But there is a lot of great innovation in education going on at Harvard right now.”  My ears perked up.  Were they going to do something with Internet-supported cooperative work?  With using teleconferencing to collaborate with universities in Chi...

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) 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...

Published:November 24, 2008Author:Staff, HBS Alumni Bulletin Henry Mintzberg of McGill University in Montreal devoted a book to his contention that "conventional MBA programs train the wrong people in the wrong ways with the wrong consequences."

Legally Blonde' leaps from Hollywood to Broadway and now Schenectady Bonds says that the leads for "Legally Blonde," which closed its official Broadway run at the Palace Theatre on Oct. 19, all have contracts with dates lasting well into next fall. Legally Blonde: The Musical"

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 Jay Nordlinger Wanted to share with you an interesting confluence of events: 1) I wrote a piece for the current National Review on hissing -- one of my least favorite practices, and a subject I've written about regularly in my Impromptus column. In this piece, I pay particular attention to Harvard Law Sch...

 MO - Barack Obama who earned a BA from Columbia University and later earned his law degree from Harvard (where he became president of the Harvard Law Review), ... Candidates keep focus on battleground states St. Charles Journal all 2 news articles

Late last Friday afternoon, we heard from mediabistro.com's FishbowlNY that Harvard-themed mag 02138 is shutting down, a victim of what Manhattan Media euphemistically described as "the current economic environment." But the links between Harvard and the magazine world aren't comp...

By Alex Carnevale Richard Yates. Leonard Michaels. Robert Coover. Thomas Pynchon. Evan S. Connell. Richard Ford. Hell, even Tom Wolfe. Then again, what is a Harvard guy going to say about another Harvard guy? Seriously: Sam Tanenhaus and John Updike Do 69 [NYTBR]

By David DeBolt Nine of the first 10 participants in a genetic study at Harvard Medical School, who include some well-known researchers, have agreed to post newly decoded segments of their DNA sequences and other medical information on a publicly accessible Web site, the group announced at a news conf...

By Nina Shield Congratulations, Columbia! Never again must you covet from afar Harvard’s Matt DiPasquale and his low-budge porn magazine: it’s only homegrown smut from now on. Editor-In-Chief Hoang Jessica Tang (C’09) introduces C-spot as “a new erotic review produced by Columbia University stud...

By Dan Haley Oh, of course not. Luckily the Lampoon has no social criteria for joining. It’s all anonymous submissions. You don’t know who you’ve let on staff until they’re there. Which is a miracle because if they had any kind of social element to their try-out process nobody would get in. When I was at the La...

 - Sep 25, 2008 The Harvard advance builds on the achievement of Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University, who electrified scientists two years ago with a method for inserting ... Researchers Report Stem Cell Advance Washington Post New way to make stem cells reported Boston Globe

By Robyn Schneider Meet DYE, the Dartmouth Yale Enthusiasts, who, according to a recent email they sent to fellow Dartmouth students, “is a group of aspiring Yale undergraduates, providing support to one another during our (hopefully brief) intermediary period here at Dartmouth. We provide transfer ap...

 CA - In his junior year, he transferred to Columbia University, "more for what (New York City) had to offer than for the education," he said. ... Obama's ignorance of the law American Thinker all 3 news articles

 United Kingdom - The MBA students are in their first year, studying RC – Harvard co de for required curriculum – when, as part of the course, they play "Crimson Greetings". ... Brunel University Launches MBA In Healthcare Management Medical News Today (press release) all 2 news articles

 - By ASHLEY PHILLIPS Campus police at Harvard University are under scrutiny, as the Ivy League school this week launched a review of the department amid ...

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 STANLEY STUYVESANT Harvard may have finally taken over the top spot in the National University Rankings from Princeton, but neither even make the top 10 as far as partying is concerned. The Princeton Review just released it’s 2009 lists including the best party schools. They are: - University of Florida, Gai...

By Wallstrip Harvard College (Cambridge, MA) University of New Hampshire (Durham, NH) University of Oregon (Eugene, OR) University of Washington (Seattle, WA) Yale University (New Haven, CT). Best Classroom Experience. 1. Stanford University ...

 United States - Harvard’s Environmental Action Committee, an undergraduate environmental advocacy and political group, got 4500 students to sign a petition last winter ... Binghamton University Receives Top Recognition for Green Activities AScribe (press release)

 MA - HPR : You got your bachelor’s degree from Harvard and returned to the University of Kentucky to attend law school. Do you think it’s an advantage for ... Saul Finestone’s lessons from life in local politics Harvard Political Review all 2 news articles

 MA - At Brown University, the New Curriculum eliminated all core requirements for undergraduates outside of their major. In its own curricular reforms, Harvard ...

A New History at Harvard  MA - By THE CRIMSON STAFF History is certainly a worthy course of study. Harvard boasts numerous courses devoted to studying the world’s histories, ... Investment in science and technology heightens the importance of ... Harvard Political Review all 2 news articles

HUDS Advisory Council Begins Review  MA - By ESTHER I. YI In a corner of the Quincy House Dining Hall yesterday evening, two members of the Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) Advisory Council ... May the Outsiders Starve Harvard Crimson all 2 news articles

Harvard and the Ivy League have said they will review the possibility that the Crimson men's basketball program committed recruiting violations. The Ivy League released a short statement Tuesday after an article in The New York Times on Sunday described how Kenny Blakeney, now a Crimso...

Harvard faculty to publish scholarly articles online for free By AP CAMBRIDGE - Harvard University faculty members have approved a plan to make their scholarly articles available online for free. ... Harvard faculty votes to post research online Boston Globe

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.

GALLERY REVIEW | Harvard exhibit proves teachers have lives ...  MA - This sentiment of awe is present at Harvard University's "VES New Faculty 2007-2008" show. Situated in Harvard's Carpenter Center, the exhibit seeks to ...

5. See generally Bishop Carleton Hunt, The Development of the Business Corporation in England, 1800-1867 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1936). 15. For a full account of the evolving concept of the corporation, see Hovenkamp, "Classical Corporation in American Legal Thou...

Chairman Levin and members of the subcommittee, it is a pleasure to appear before you today to discuss the accounting and tax treatment of incentive compensation. I am an associate professor of finance at Harvard Business School and a faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Eco...

In the HARVARD CRIMSON, Samuel P. Jacobs writes “the University will confer honorary degrees today on 10 people, including professors, philosophers, a basketball player, and one drop-out billionaire. The recipients include Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, a drop-out of Harvard Colle...

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...

By Sindya Harvard College (Cambridge, MA). It’s difficult to value these rankings without know what criteria was used. Here’sa quote explaining the logic behind the numbers. Said Robert Franek, Princeton Review VP-Publishing, “Families searching ...

NYU Tops Harvard for Fourth Year as `Dream School' for Students Among students, NYU was followed in the Princeton Review survey by Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Stanford University near Palo Alto, ... 3 Hub colleges among ‘dream’ choices Boston Herald

Stern Lessons For Terrorism Expert  MA - One of Harvard’s federally mandated Institutional Review Boards (IRBs), which reviews the plans of University researchers who hope to study human subjects, ...

 MA - By THE CRIMSON STAFF. The flurry of curricular changes proposed by the Harvard College Curricular Review all share a recognition that, in today’s society, a ... The University Is a Drama Queen Harvard Crimson all 2 news articles