Harvard University

By MJG Just five months ago, Ashley Judd's enrollment at Harvard University was a poorly kept secret. Now, we're in a new decade, with a Republican Senator and Judd is babbling willy nilly on the Joy Behar Show, not to mention to Redbook, about going to Harvard. The Track said Judd told Redbook she i...

By Kerry Skemp Trojan's sexual health report card ranks Harvard low on the list of sexually enlightened schools, giving Crimson kids another reason to FML. Perhaps the impending departure of our friend Lena Chen (who is poised to graduate soon) is leading to disaster? Regardless of the reason, Harvar...

Scientists at Harvard University have used light and genetic trickery to trace out neurons' ability to excite or inhibit one another, literally shedding new ... and more »

By Brice Reynolds The Harvard Crimson shot a video record of Harvard’s first ever Primal Scream held in December last Saturday. The Christmas Hats are a nice touch. The black bars are not. Except for at the end when they had to black out half the screen. That was just lazy.

Harvard University Gazette Read more in our Privacy Policy CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) ― The longest-serving member of Harvard University's governing body is set to retire after 15 years ... Houghton to conclude Corporation serviceHarvard University Gazette

Harvard Book Store (www.harvard.com) has announced that Lake Woebegone's most famous chronicler, Garrison Keillor, will soon make an appearance in our ... and more »

The Harvard Museum of Natural History has received its largest donation since its founding in 1998. The $500000 commitment from a Harvard University alumnus ... and more »

Biogeochemistry: Life in the deep sea subscription) Cara M. Santelli is at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA. Volcanic rocks on the sea floor are home ...

Pelle, who played his college hockey for the Harvard Crimson, was injured during the Rush's third game of the season on Oct. 23 and placed on the 30-day ... and more »

Ever wondered just how bad life could get at Harvard (theoretically, of course)? Well, Harvard Undergraduate Television (HUTV) showed the world with the ...

Andrea Smith, featured as Diamond's “Single Dame,” said she took some undergraduate classes at Harvard and received a certificate from the university's ... and more »

By Kerry Skemp Based on these relatively palatable (cheese is tasty!) submissions, we're not sure the Crimson crew understands exactly what FML means. Hint: it's supposed to be something bad, guys. Something that's at least a little bit difficult to deal with. Not just your average status update. And if n...

By Rick Sawyer Police identified the man shot to death in Mattapan last Friday as Carlos Romero Franco, 31, of Boston. [BPDNews] Boston cops arrested an alleged Haverill prostitute and her alleged Haverill driver after an alleged act of offering sex for money. [BPDNews]

From its tentative beginnings in 1908, Harvard Business School has grown into a teaching-, research-, and publishing-focused global enterprise with remarkably diverse students and faculty and highly accomplished alumni. Eight enduring themes have characterized Harvard Busines...

By Max Wasserman This is Louis Leblanc. He’s from Kirkland, Quebec. Last season, he played for the Omaha Lancers of the USHL. On Friday, he was selected by the Montreal Canadiens in the first round of the NHL Draft. That made thousands of Québécois very happy and subsequently irritating. But Leblanc isn’t goin...

By Max Wasserman My own final abstraction was the Ivy League, a group of institutions I knew nothing about for most of my life save the fact that Harvard and Yale were among them. As late as age 26, when I began looking at Columbia University for graduate school, I never thought of it as being in the Ivy League, n...

January 2009 Julio Frenk, former Mexican minister of public health, succeeds Barry R. Bloom as dean of the Harvard School of Public Health. February 2009 Hasty Pudding Theatricals warmly roasts actress Renée Zellweger as its 59th Woman of the Year and actor James Franco as its 43rd Man of t...

Abbott Laboratories and Takeda Chemical Industries Ltd.'s settlement of a class-action lawsuit over the prostate-cancer drug Lupron has millions of dollars left unclaimed that may go to Harvard University for research. The companies agreed in 2004 to ...

By Dan Haley Welcome to the second installment of our guide to Ivy pizza (we’ve already done this with sandwiches and drinks). In our first installment, we reviewed the pizza at Harvard. I know, I’m also skeptical Boston has good food. But let’s table that for a moment and focus on today’s post: The Slice a...

By Adam Clark Estes Brown: Ok, the scientific experiments on College Hill are getting creepy. Columbia: Because Benjamin Button was boring, so are student organizations at Columbia? Cornell: Speaking of boring, who knew reading about pirates could be such a snooze? Dartmouth: Girls Gone Wild goes Green...

With the loss of Loker Commons, Lamont Cafe has become what some students consider the closest thing Harvard has to an official student center. The issue of social space has also recently emerged at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where certain faculty members are seeking to incre...

As Tanya V. Bezreh ’95 walked through Harvard Yard last Saturday, a friend asked what it was like to be a Harvard graduate.

 NY Edward Forst, who stepped down as Goldman's global head of investment management to join Harvard University as an executive vice president last summer, received his AB from Harvard in 1982. Frank Yeary, Citigroup's former global head of M&A, ...

By Adam Clark Estes Does that mean that gay Princeton students are literally going after Craigslist sex 19-times more often than Harvard students? No, it doesn’t. I looked. While you definitely get some “Princeton Undergrad” results, most are visiting businessmen looking for company in their hotel room. (...

By Adam Clark Estes Brown: Whoa whoa whoa! You’re telling me that Brown has a curriculum?!? Cornell: Retirement is the new laid off. Just ask 423 Cornell staffers. Columbia: Likening Columbia’s Social Life to Flight of the Conchords = IvyGate Seal of Approval Dartmouth: Whoa whoa whoa! You’re telling me the...

First, his Harvard law degree is far more prestigious than an ASU degree. He taught constitutional law (a first for American presidents), was the youngest and first black editor of the Harvard Law Review (ASU has nothing of this caliber). ...

KIDK  MA It might be hard for the card-carrying pro-choice Democrat at Harvard to comprehend that a young, bright college student or university scholar would object to Obama as Notre Dame’s commencement speaker. It is nearly impossible for many Ivy League ...

 MA The Church members, who held signs which read "God Hates Fags" and "Mourn for Your Sins," protested outside Gannett House, the historic home of the Harvard Law Review. Police presence was heavy. Dozens of Harvard University Police and Cambridge Police ...

 MA Formerly, significant numbers of its graduates finished their undergraduate careers at Harvard. Moreover, typical transfer classes included students from all of the military academies who had distinguished themselves in particularly difficult ...

All across Cambridge and Boston, researchers gathered just before noon Monday (March 9) in the laboratories that constitute the collaborative known to the world as the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI), waiting to hear President Barack Obama announce to the world:

For a moment in Friday night’s game against Columbia, it looked like history was repeating itself, and that was not good news for the Harvard men’s basketball team. In the last meeting between these two squads, the Crimson built a 10-point lead early in the second half and led by as much as si...

By Robyn Schneider Because, of course, when Britney Spears needs someone to manage her online persona, Princeton and Yale grads just won’t cut it–especially with such tough job requirements as being “a Social media expert with Googloe [sic] Analytics.” The job ad, taken off a Harvard-only private job boa...

By rss@www.americanchronicle.com (American Chronicle) Just before Thanksgiving, Business Week published its annual ranking of Top 30 graduate business schools for 2008. There were few surprises, at least among the top ten schools. While Harvard rose from fourth to second and Columbia from tenth to seventh, all of the schools that ranked in 20...

By Eric Haskel Squash the competition: This Saturday the men’s squash team will hope to repeat its success from last year in toppling Harvard for the first time in program history. Kicking off a strong season in which the men’s team defeated this Ancient Eight rival for the first time in school history, t...

By smagagnini@sacbee.com (Stephen Magagnini) In an interview from his home in western Massachusetts, Kidder recalled the creative writing class he took at Harvard "just for fun ... some of the stories were kind of lively and the teacher liked them, and so did some of the young women in the class."

By Rick Sawyer The Boston Skeptics in the Pub married their twin loves: reason and booze. Every month, they gather to debunk and drink. Tonight, the group welcomes Harvard researcher Sam Moulton, whose experiments involving twins and porn may have disproved telepathy. Tommy Doyle's (2nd Floor), 96 Win...

But] if we happen to win a share of the title in the process [of beating Harvard], I’ll take it.” A Crimson win guarantees Harvard at least a piece of the ... Yale-Harvard game day Connecticut Post FOOTBALL | Keys to the game Yale Daily News  - Yale Daily News

1875: Harvard starts out right by whooping Yale’s ass with 4 goals and 4 touchdowns to Yale’s zip in this half-rugby, half-soccer game, one of the first intercollegiate football matches. 1890: Harvard captures the first of its seven national championships, 12-6.

By Mitchell Drucker Static stretching: Sophomore forward Matt Bouraee (12) fights for the ball during Cornell’s 3-0 loss to Princeton Nov. 1. The Red (1-14, 0-6 Ivy) and the Lions (3-12-1, 1-5) are both coming off of resounding defeats last weekend — Columbia was routed by Harvard, 6-1, and Cornell fell to Dar...

All I’m saying is I don’t want to be reading the box score from Harvard-Princeton in two years and see that some botched call led to another chapter in the officiating drama that is the Tigers-Crimson matchup every time it happens in ...

The participants also include Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker and Dr. John Halamka, chief information officer at Harvard Medical School. A tenth participant, Misha Angrist, science editor at the Duke University Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy, said he plans to...

The participants also include Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker and Dr. John Halamka, chief information officer at Harvard Medical School. A tenth participant, Misha Angrist, science editor at the Duke University Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy, said he plans to...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The Harvard Art Museum has received a gift of $45 million and 31 major works of art, including three paintings by Picasso.

CAMBRIDGE - The Harvard Art Museum has received a gift of $45 million and 31 major works of art, including three paintings by Picasso. Harvard University on Friday announced...

PR-inside.com) HARRY POTTER star EMMA WATSON is taking her U.S. college plans to the highest level by touring one of the country's most prestigious universities. The young actress was spotted visiting the campus of Harvard University in Massachusetts last week for an open day (ends10Oct0...

By Maureen O'Connor A sexually adventurous week for Ivy Leaguers! First we saw some Harvard guy’s dong, and now, in New York Magazine’s weekly “Sex Diaries,” “The Overserved Ivy Banker Chick,” a financially savvy dame with a thing for Jews, uppers, and foot massages. Though not as mindblowing as Lena Chen’s...

By Charleton Lamb We know that it’s been scientifically proven (thanks Radar!) that, except for Lena Chen, Harvard students don’t have sex. Ever. Fortunately for us, however, that sense of propriety doesn’t extend to the number one Harvard pastime: starting new and marginally useful publications. We wer...

By Elle Will Harvard Turn Blind Eye to Patrick Hamm Case? When she started posting pictures of her beau, “Patrick’s” identity immediately became obvious: Patrick Hamm, who holds a Teaching Fellowship with Harvard’s department of sociology.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Sometime between the founding of a studentrun porn magazine and the day the campus health center advertised Free Lube, Harvard University seniors Sarah Kinsella and Justin Murray decided to fight back against what they see as too much mindless sex at the Ivy League scho...

By info@universetoday.com (Fraser Cain) When you look into the night sky with your eyes, or through a telescope, you're seeing the Universe in the spectrum of visible light. Unfortunately, this is a fraction of the entire electromagnetic spectrum, ranging from radio waves to gamma radiation. And that's too bad because differen...