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Opinion: Frans Spaepen named interim director of Center for Nanoscale Systems

11 Jun 2009 13:00:01 PDT

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).

Original story at Harvard University Gazette .

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Opinion: Harvard study says Twitter has a gender gap

03 Jun 2009 06:12:56 PDT

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 ...

Original story at TechJournal South .

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Opinion: Michele Lamont Reveals How Professors Think—and Why?

05 May 2009 09:00:00 PDT

Written 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...

Original story at Bostonist .

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Opinion: The Elusive Quest For Global Governance Standards

23 Apr 2009 06:02:42 PDT

Written 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...

Original story at The Doc Searls Weblog .

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Opinion: Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 HD 1080p Trailer

22 Mar 2009 01:46:20 PDT

Written by rss@youtube.com (WatchinTVHD)
Keywords: Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 HD 1080p Trailer Full Action Uncut trailers 2009 2010 world news people groups film video funny silence 720p high quality definition dvd serious professional guide time earth funniest martial art family adult children horror science fiction comed...

Original story at YouTube .

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Opinion: Darwin the Abolitionist

06 Feb 2009 14:42:51 PST

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

Original story at Living on the Earth .

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Harvard University news and blogs - November 08, 2009

08 Nov 2009 00:00:01 PDT

Below is today's roundup of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit Harvard University news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.

• Opinion: Nicholas Christakis -- from MIT Technology Review
• Opinion: 'Harvard Beats Yale' sets context of the day -- from Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
• Opinion: Hey, it was Michelle's idea -- by Michael McGough from L.A. Times - Opinion Blog
• Opinion: Elect best and brightest -- from News-Leader.com
• Columbia Students Launch Erotic Review -- by Nina Shield from IvyGate
• Opinion: Safer Embryonic-Like Stem Cells Created by Harvard Researchers -- from Bloomberg
• Opinion: Yale or DYE (Q: What’s that stick for? A: Your ass) -- by Robyn Schneider from IvyGate
• Barack Obama, Harvard Law Review editor, March 19, 1990 -- from Los Angeles Times
• Book review: What they teach you at Harvard Business School -- from Scotsman
• Racial Profiling? Harvard Reviews Campus Cops -- from ABC News

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Opinion: How to Stay in an Ivy League School: Breezing Through, Crazying Out, and Everything in Between

25 Jan 2009 19:04:40 PST

Written 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.

Original story at IvyGate .

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Opinion: How to Stay in an Ivy League School: Breezing Through, Crazying Out, and Everything in Between

25 Jan 2009 19:04:40 PST

Written 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’...

Original story at IvyGate .

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Opinion: Innovation in Education, Harvard Style

01 Jan 2009 17:16:49 PST

Written 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...

Original story at The Doc Searls Weblog .

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Beaker Hill: We Put New Stories in Our "Year in Review"

30 Dec 2008 08:00:00 PST

Written 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.

Original story at Bostonist .

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Opinion: Duke’s endowment, budget reporting trails Harvard’s & Yale’s

17 Dec 2008 12:50:18 PST

Written 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...

Original story at John In Carolina .

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Opinion: FIRE Co-founder Announces Candidacy for Harvard Board of Overseers

11 Dec 2008 21:39:00 PST

Written 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...

Original story at FIRE .

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Opinion: Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA

24 Nov 2008 10:00:00 PST

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."

Original story at HBS Working Knowledge .

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Opinion: 'Legally Blonde: The Musical' coming to Proctors

20 Nov 2008 02:00:00 PST

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"

Original story at Albany Times Union .

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Opinion: Call it dumb, then forget it

15 Nov 2008 22:02:14 PST

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.

Original story at Albany Times Union .

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Opinion: A Good Cultural Sign

03 Nov 2008 04:48:21 PST

Written 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...

Original story at National Review Online Blogs .

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Opinion: A Quarter of Harvard-Trained Editors with Career Advice

27 Oct 2008 07:00:02 PDT

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...

Original story at mediabistro.com .

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Harvard Guy Gives Orgasmic Review to Other Harvard Guy [Reviews You Can't Use]

25 Oct 2008 14:25:00 PDT

Written 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]

Original story at Gawker .

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Opinion: 9 Volunteers in Harvard Study Agree to Post Their Personal Genomes Online

20 Oct 2008 17:35:54 PDT

Written 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...

Original story at Chronicle of Higher Education .

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Opinion: Book Club Interview: Simon Rich

13 Oct 2008 15:06:13 PDT

Written 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...

Original story at IvyGate .

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Opinion: did Harvard Law kill parody, satire & humor?

27 Aug 2008 08:40:37 PDT

Written 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...

Original story at The Doc Searls Weblog .

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Opinion: Harvard Political Blogs: Crazy Informative, With a Touch of Anti-Semitism

05 Nov 2007 08:25:15 PST

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.

Original story at IvyGate .

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Opinion: Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field

18 Jun 2007 10:00:00 PDT

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...

Original story at HBS Working Knowledge .

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Opinion: The End of Military History?

09 May 2007 11:12:11 PDT

Written 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...

Original story at Outside The Beltway | OTB .

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Opinion: Mark Moyar, historian of Vietnam, finds academe hostile to a hawk

30 Apr 2007 07:49:00 PDT

Written 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...

Original story at FIRE .

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