HARVARD popularity and HARVARD trends

La película ‘La red social’, inspirada en su visión, dibujaba a Eduardo Saverin como el cofundador bondadoso traicionado por Mark Zuckerberg. ¿Por qué hoy EE UU le mira como a un traidor?

The Harvard professor tells The Globe's Sonia Verma that economically, Europe has never been able to properly integrate vastly divergent nations into anything remotely uniform

Carly Rae Jepsen’s catchy “Call Me Maybe” continues to win over the hearts of countless Internet music lovers, topping Billboard…

The news that Ted Kaczynski was included in the 50th anniversary alumni directory has roiled the class reunion. Better known via his nom de plume...

He drew chuckles from the crowd as he mocked the school, Mark Zuckerberg and more.

It has been a week since the Facebook IPO, with a whole lot of drama in the aftermath about the glitch with Nasdaq (and the legal implications), and questions about how much traders have lost as a result, while the share price has fallen: from a start of $38 it is now $32.79 in pre-market trading. But in a speech earlier this week to the 2012 graduating class of Harvard Business School, Faceboo...

Funeral services for Bishop Hamel Hartford Brookins, a former pastor of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles, will be held June 1 at the church, his family and church officials have announced. The services for Brookins, who also was a civil rights leader and political power broker for Democratic politicians, will be held that Friday at 11 a.m. at First AME Church, 2270 S...

Mark Zuckerberg, Mark Wahlberg, and Nicholas Cage all spoke at Harvard’s 2012 Commencement Ceremony. And by "spoke at" we mean, Andy Samberg did impersonations of them speaking… during his speech… so yeah. Okay, it wasn't the greatest thing ever (aka Arron Sorkin's commencement speech), BUT Andy did a great job! Andy's sense of humor [...]

The son of fallen Chinese politician Bo Xilai graduated from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government on Thursday.

Harvard graduate Ted Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber, has published a note in a class report for the 50-year reunion of his class.

Nathan Bihlmaier, 31, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, disappeared after leaving the Ri Ra Irish Pub in Portland, Maine, where he was celebrating his upcoming graduation with two friends.

Ted Kaczynski updated his own entry in the Harvard alumni directory, just in time for his class's 50th reunion: While many of his classmates sent in lengthy updates on their lives for the 2 ½-inch-thick “red book,” the entry for “Theodore John Kaczynski” only contains nine lines. The listing says his occupation is “Prisoner,” and [...]

BOSTON (AP) -- Harvard University alumni attending their 50th class reunion this week are getting updates on classmates, but one person stands out among those sharing news about career moves, retirements and grandkids - Unabomber Ted Kaczynski....

IT’S THE sort of efficiency they taught Mitt Romney at Harvard Business School. The Republican presidential candidate hit at least four birds with one stone yesterday in his address to the Latino Coalition’s business summit.

Given the choice, Greeks would pick Europe over their own politicians, argues Pierpaolo Barbieri, a Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center.

The Guanghua School of Management at Peking University in Beijing is one of China's most selective business schools. Its foundations were laid in 1985 when the university set up a department of economic management and a center of management science. Today Guanghua has 3,700 students and 110 full-time faculty, about two-thirds of whom have Ph.D.s from the U.S. or Europe. The dean of the school, ...

There isn’t much House race action in Arkansas on Tuesday, but there’s one candidate who has attracted quite a bit of attention — Iraq War veteran and Harvard Law School grad Tom Cotton. The conservative media has been writing about him since last year. And on Sunday, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (behind paywall) set expectations high with this endorsement (emphasis added): This year's poli...

quantr writes "The Supreme Court has declined to hear Joel Tenenbaum's appeal. A jury in 2009 ordered Tenenbaum, of Providence, R.I., to pay $675,000 for illegally downloading and sharing 30 songs. A federal judge called the penalty constitutionally excessive, but the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated it at the request of the Recording Industry Association of America. Tenenbaum's att...

(Phys.org) -- Environmental scientists at Harvard have discovered that the Arctic accumulation of mercury, a toxic element, is caused by both atmospheric forces and the flow of circumpolar rivers that carry the element north into the Arctic Ocean.

... Timo Siepmann, 31, der Professoren der amerikanischen Harvard-Universität per Livestream ans Dresdner Uniklinikum bringt. Der wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter und Arzt an der TU Dresden hat selbst in Harvard geforscht.

Facebook founder and university sweetheart take vows at home hot on heels of social network's share market listingThe newly enriched Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has updated his status to "married". Zuckerberg and 27-year-old Priscilla Chan wed at a small ceremony at his home in Palo Alto, California, on Saturday, capping a week during which the social network he founded listed on the share...

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg capped off a busy week by getting married today to longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan.The couple, who met at Harvard and have been together for nine years, tied the knot in a small ceremony at…

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. —When scholars gathered at Harvard last month to discuss the political tumult convulsing China’s ruling Communist Party, a demure female undergraduate with a direct stake in the outcome was listening intently from the top row of the lecture hall. She was the daughter of Xi Jinping, China’s vice president and heir apparent for the party’s top job. Read full article >> ...

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg rang in as much as $20billion in wealth this morning as Facebook went public under Nasdaq symbol 'FB,' eight years after he created it in his Harvard dorm room.

Today is all about Facebook's big $100 billion IPO. But how did the social media titan get so titanic to begin with? Harvard Business Review's David Rock explains that Facebook is so far ahead of human practice, it actually hacks our brains. More »

Le réseau social créé par des étudiants de Harvard en 2004 s'apprête à lever 16 milliards de dollars en Bourse avec des actions à 38 dollars. Une «success story» à l'américaine.

Facebook, the social network that began eight years ago in a Harvard dorm room, will debut Friday on the stock markets having raised $16 billion, making it the third largest initial public offering in U.S. history. Read full article >>

Using Harvard University data, the graph shows September 16 is the most common birthday in the U.S., while February 29 is the least common.

Jamie Dimon told Harvard Business School grads to beware of self-deception. Then he went out and proved his point, reports Al Lewis.

Harvard Business School professor Amy Cuddy has discovered that how you sit can actually change your cortisone levels.

Thumbi Ndung’u left Kenya 1995 to study medicine at Harvard. He later returned to Africa on a mission to exploit HIV’s vulnerabilities. Now the head of the HIV Pathogenesis Program at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, Ndung’u spoke with Scientific American contributor Brendan Borrell about a research breakthrough early in his career that [...]

The success of Rwanda in providing health care to its poor has drawn the attention of the international community and has inspired a new program at Harvard University.

While the Harvard Business Review, the bible of the business set, has bucked recent trends with increased print sales, its publisher accepts that, ultimately, its future is online only

In sechs Monaten wählen die USA einen neuen Präsidenten - und das Ergebnis wird maßgeblich vom Konjunkturverlauf bestimmt. Für Obama sieht's nicht gut aus.

ALL the taste of chocolate without any of the calories? It sounds too good to be true, but one Harvard University professor has made it happen.

Justin Bieber loves Carly Rae Jepsen. We know that. He signed the 'Call Me Maybe' singer. But the Harvard baseball team?

Ein Eintrag in sozialen Netzwerken wie Facebook kann laut einer US-Studie in derselben Hirnregion Befriedigung auslösen wie Sex oder gutes Essen. Das fand jetzt ein Forscherteam der Harvard University in Cambridge in Massachusetts heraus.

Jason Solis, a senior at Long Beach Polytechnic in Long Beach, Calif, said his college choice surpassed his "wildest dreams."

A Harvard professor defends the hiring of Democrat Elizabeth Warren, who is under fire for claiming her Native American ancestry.

Prestigious Harvard and the MIT universities have come together by donating $ 60 million for the development of the education through internet.

Eine der größten Herausforderungen in den Industrie- und Schwellenländern ist die Bekämpfung der Fettsucht, der Adipositas. Bisher gibt es kaum medikamentöse Therapien. Einen Mechanismus, über den man offenbar wirksam eingreifen könnte, hat jetzt ein US-Wissenschaftlerteam von der Harvard Medical School in Boston entdeckt: Mit einem Enzym des Vitamin-A-Stoffwechsels kann man weißes Körperfett i...

Harvard and M.I.T. are going to offer free courses online, but not for credit. Why not?

A team of scientists at Harvard Medical School in Boston studied 4,000 obese adults and found those who followed the common sense advice were much more likely to lose weight than those on fad regimes.

Yaakov Katz will focus on use of censorship in the digital age to determine if it is relevant and consistent with democratic values.

One hundred and two minutes with Clay Christensen and Horace Dediu FORTUNE -- About 40 minutes into the interview with Clay Christensen that Asymco's Horace Dediu posted Wednesday on his Critical Path podcast, Dediu brings the conversation around to Apple (AAPL). Christensen, who was Dediu's mentor at Harvard Business School, is best known as the author of The Innovator's Dilemma -- a book tha...

It doesn't matter what e-books cost to make EdX: A Platform for More MOOCs and an Opportunity for More Research about Teaching and Learning Online The Problem With EdX How Should Your University Respond to edX? Resisting the Robo-Assignment The Immersion Method -- I & II (intensive "great books" courses) Reconsidering Academic Careers Libraries as Indoctrination Mills The Virtues of Blog...

This week Harvard and M.I.T. announced a $60 million online-classroom venture named edX. The non-profit enterprise will offer a variety of free courses across disciplines for anyone with an Internet connection.

Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are teaming up to expand their online education programs — and they’re inviting other institutions to come on board.

A shadowy group of hackers called "The Unknowns" claims it accessed 10 computer networks, including NASA, the Air Force and Harvard.

Vanderbilt students fight school's nondiscrimination policy for faith-based groups and look to 2003 Harvard case.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) -- Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have joined forces to offer free online courses in a project aimed at attracting millions of online learners around the world, the universities announced Wednesday....

BOSTON (Reuters) - Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both academic heavyweights and often neighborly rivals, are joining hands in a new partnership to offer courses online and for free.

The joint venture builds on an existing MIT platform that serves 120,000 students worldwide. Harvard has joined with MIT to deliver courses over the Internet, for free, to anyone in the world. The new joint venture, called edx, builds upon MIT’s existing online learning platform, MITx, which already runs a handful of courses, including Circuits and Electronics, for around 120,000 students world...

Concept developed by two long-time friends, Facebook's COO and a Johns Hopkins transplant surgeon - - When Harvard University friends Sheryl Sandberg and Andrew M. Cameron, M.D., Ph.D., met up a...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Seated in a cheerfully cramped monitoring room at the Harvard University Laboratory for Developmental Studies, Elizabeth S. Spelke, a professor of psychology and a pre-eminent researcher of the basic ingredient list from which all human knowledge is constructed, looked on expectantly as her students prepared a boisterous 8-month-old girl with dark curly hair for the onerous ...

Bo Guagua, the Chinese "princeling" at Harvard and son of a deposed Communist leader, has racked up three traffic citations in Massachusetts driving a black Porsche.

Bo Guagua, son of disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai, has given a statement to newspaper at Harvard University. The paper's president Ben Samuels tells the BBC how they got the story.

BEIJING (AP) -- The son of fallen Chinese politician Bo Xilai defended his academic record and social life at Harvard University in a letter that was the latest example of the extraordinary public evolution of China's messiest political scandal....

New York Und Chennai, Indien (ots/PRNewswire) - ~ - Hocheffiziente Möglichkeiten für intelligente Kunden-Interaktionen, überall - am Arbeitsplatz oder im Restaurant - Finanzberater-Workstation mit einer einzigen Schnittstelle, die eine Steigerung der …

After Harvard hosts controversial "One-State Solution" conference, Israelis try to change students' perceptions on home country.

by Shyamsunder Panchavati   Just in 8th Feb. 2012  I have been invited into the Advisory Council of Harvard Business Review. I have accepted the invitation and joined as an Advisor on Harvard Business Council. View HBR Letter Here http://capacity-career.blogspot.in/2012/02/hbr-advisory-council-02-08.html   Harvard vs...

Bo Guagua, el hijo del suspendido exsecretario del Partido Comunista chino Bo Xilai y estudiante de posgrado en la Universidad de Harvard, se encuentra en paradero desconocido desde la semana pasada.

Jonathan Schlefer, a research associate at Harvard Business School, answers questions about his book "The Assumptions Economists Make."

The two-day 15th Harvard China Forum concluded on Sunday, with Chinese and US business leaders and scholars discussing the opportunities and challenges Chinese companies face while expanding overseas.

The son of Bo Xilai, the sacked Chinese Communist Party official at the center of the country's biggest political crisis in a generation, appears to have left his apartment near Harvard University, escorted by private security guards, but it wasn't clear how long he was expected to be gone.

Boston (ots) - Die Harvard Business School (HBS) organisiert mit Unterstützung von McKinsey & Company und Brandl & Talos Rechtsanwälte einen Informationsabend zum eigenen MBA-Programm. Die Veranstaltung wird in Wien am 26. April um 18.00 Uhr stattfinden (McKinsey & Company, Herrengasse …

Anders als junge Mediziner werden Absolventen von Business Schools oft ohne Praxiserfahrung ins Berufsleben entlassen. Das muss sich ändern, findet der Dekan der Harvard Business School - und hat ein Programm entwickelt, das Studenten Demut lehren soll.

Vor dem Ökonomengipfel in Berlin geht der an der US-Eliteuni Harvard lehrende Ökonomieprofessor mit der Wirtschaftspolitik hart ins Gericht. Im Interview fordert er, mehr auf die Schwachen zu blicken.

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) -- One candidate is worth up to $250 million, ran a private equity firm and plans to build an elevator for the cars at his beach house. The other is the former head of the Harvard Law Review who became a best-selling author and millionaire and now lives in the world's most famous mansion - 1600 Pennsylvania Ave....

Bonnie Raitt is such a class act it's easy to forget she's kind of a badass Harvard African Studies major-turned-world-class-blueswoman slide-guitar master platinum pop star and a singer-songwriter with interpretive skills so sharp she once turned "Baby Mine" the maternal lullaby from Dumbo into a seduction Slipstream her first album...

Darryl Strawberry talks about producing a new documentary called 'Harvard Park' for BET about growing up in South Central LA in the 80's

Is there anything GZA can't do? Following appearances at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and preceding the imminent launch of his new website the Wu-Tang Clan alum has revealed that he will be hosting a contest called "Duel of the Iron Mic" Pitchfork reports In the contest fans...

A once-highflying real estate fund that counts Harvard University, Duke University and other blue-chip names as investors is laying off its entire investment staff after determining it can't raise new funds.

OAKLAND, California (Reuters) - Federal agents on Monday raided a cannabis cultivation school widely known as the "Princeton of Pot" and the "Harvard of Hemp," a U.S. marshal on the scene said, as the government pressed its clamp-down on medical marijuana.

Harvard, Yale and other Ivy League schools were more selective in their admissions this year, though many were choosing from a smaller pool of applicants.

Deputy Foreign Editor Marc Lacey and Harvard University’s Jorge I. Domínguez discuss whether Cuba can continue to evolve economically, but stay the course politically.

The former U.S. Treasury secretary and Harvard president sounds off about innovation in online currencies and mobile payments.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Emails from Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard days show the dropout-turned-Facebook CEO as a young entrepreneur losing patience with a client's delayed payments....

NEW YORK - A doctoral student at Harvard University will undertake research work in Pakistan under a fellowship recently established to honour the memory of a scholar of Pakistani origin, the University announced in Boston Monday. The announcement made by the University’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations said that Daniel Majchrowicz, the student, was awarded the ...

NEW YORK - A doctoral student at Harvard University will undertake research work in Pakistan under a fellowship recently established to honour the memory of a scholar of Pakistani origin, the University announced in Boston Monday. The announcement made by the University’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations said that Daniel Majchrowicz, the student, was awarded the ...

International leaders from government, business, non-profit, media and entertainment sectors are meeting here over the weekend to discuss where India stands currently and where it is headed over the next decade.

Jim Yong Kim est un médecin et anthropologue d'origine coréenne actuellement président de la prestigieuse université Dartmouth. Agé de 52 ans, il a été formé à Harvard.

Second online live web seminar co-hosted by the Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research at Harvard University and the International Review of the Red Cross.

Das Endspiel ist komplett: In einem packenden Pokalfight setzte sich Bayern München im Elfmeterschießen gegen Mönchengladbach durch und trifft nun im Finale auf Borussia Dortmund. Tragische Figuren waren Borussias Dante und Harvard Nordtveit, die ihre Schüsse vergaben.

Regularly eating white rice could increase the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, Harvard academics have claimed in the British Medical Journal.

ALBUQUERQUE -- With about two minutes left in fourth-seeded Vanderbilt's second round game against Harvard on Thursday, after the Crimson had cut an 18-point deficit down to five, one of the giant screens at The Pit showed a list that looked like this:

Vanderbilt entered this year’s NCAA tournament riding a hot streak after beating Kentucky for the Southeastern Conference tournament title last weekend, and the Commodores showed no signs of slowing down until the waning moments Thursday. Read full article >>

In academia, Vanderbilt aspires to be Harvard. In basketball, Harvard aspires to be Vanderbilt. On Thursday, they meet on the court.

Das Magazin "Times Higher Education" veröffentlicht sein neues Hochschulranking. Harvard ist wieder auf Platz eins, Deutschland verbessert sich leicht.

Utl.: Nur wenige Fächer haben die Chance, Klasse statt Masse zu produzieren. Wien (OTS) - Österreichs Universitäten schneiden bei internationalen Rankings nie besonders gut ab. Das ist logisch, weil zum Beispiel die elitäre Spitzenuni Harvard ungefähr so viel Geld zur Verfügung ...

It's a great day to be a cow.On Monday, researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health announced that just a single serving of red meat per day dramatically increases your risk of death – by 13 percent. The odds of developing cancer or heart disease start around 14 percent -- and they climb even higher for people who eat processed meats like hot dogs and bacon. As MedSNBC summed it up, "A...

A diet high in red meat can shorten life expectancy, according to researchers at Harvard Medical School.

PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) A year after stealing the Ivy League title from Harvard with a last-second shot, Princeton gave the Crimson the crown and an NCAA berth, and took no joy in doing it.

We think it's pretty safe to say that a Muppet's best friend might be Jason Segel. The Harvard Hasty Pudding Man of the Year took our beloved Muppets and brought them back to the...

Para Dee Leopold, el ensayo no es tan importante y en las cartas de recomendación le gusta ver más verbos que adjetivos. Lee los formularios de inscripción de los 1.800 candidatos que son invitados para una entrevista, y ayuda a reducir esa lista a la mitad antes de enviar cartas de aceptación.

President Barack Obama, a fellow Harvard grad, knew about Jeremy Lin "before you did, or anyone else did," the commander-in-chief told Grantland's Bill Simmons. How? Watch the video and find out.

Vortrag als Aufruf gegen Mobbing unter Jugendlichen – Auflauf auf dem Campus

LADY Gaga launches her Born This Way Foundation charity at Harvard University

Lady Gaga brought her star power to Harvard University on Wednesday to launch a new foundation aimed at empowering young people and stamping out bullying.

FORTUNE -- In eight years, the social network Mark Zuckerberg began coding in his Harvard dorm room has become a cyber institution with some 843 million users. Now, as Facebook readies to go public later this year, it is about to undergo the most dramatic change in its short history. Once it is public, Zuckerberg's venture will almost certainly have the capital necessary to realize its biggest ...

What better place than Harvard for Lady Gaga to take the world to school?! The pop superstar, her mother Cynthia and the mother of all talk show hosts, Oprah Winfrey, were at the Ivy...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) -- Lady Gaga is expected to be joined by Oprah Winfrey and U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius at Harvard University for the launch of the singer's Born This Way Foundation....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- For 60 years, doctors have believed women were born with all the eggs they'll ever have. Now Harvard scientists are challenging that dogma, saying they've discovered the ovaries of young women harbor very rare stem cells capable of producing new eggs....

@Torben Der Nutzen hoher Calciumzufuhr für die Knochen wird bezweifelt - falls die Versorgung mit Vitamin D ausreichend ist. Die Calciumresorption im Darm ist teilweise Vitamin D-abhängig. Vitamin D wird vom Körper synthetisiert, benötigt dazu aber UVB-Bestrahlung der Haut. In Deutschland reicht die Sonne von Oktober bis März dazu nicht aus. Hier findest Du Informationen der Harvard School o...

SUPERMODEL Tyra Banks has proved she has both beauty and brains by earning a Harvard diploma through an executive education program.

Brenda Walsh and her education connections can slide over to the side for a second, because here comes self-proclaimed America's Next Top Oprah, Tyra Banks, with her diploma from Harvard University’s Executive Education Owner/President Manager Program. The Washington Post says that Harvard's Executive Education Manager Program costs around $99,000 and is only available to h...

Your humble blogger has, on occasion, opined about the intersection of sports and politics.  This topic is both tempting and treacherous.  Tempting, because a lot more people pay attention to sports than world politics, and so it's a way for the pundit to A) show how "in touch" s/he is with the mass p;ublic; and B) use the sporting moment-du-jour as a metaphor  to make a point that wa...

Madison Square Garden shares jumped about 4% shortly after news leaked of an impending deal between Madison Square Garden (MSG) and Time Warner Cable (TWC). Time Warner customers had been blocked from watching MSG as the two companies fought over fees; but the kerfuffle had mostly been ignored until people suddenly started to care about [...]

The New York Knicks guard that is making headlines now eventually went to Harvard after being asked to walk on with the Cardinal.

Robot bugs unfold like a pop-up book

A Harvard scientist has created a new product that allows you to breath in your daily dose of caffeine. The small canisters carry 4-6 puffs of caffeinated powder, giving you about as much caffeine as a cup of coffee

Die transkranielle Gleichstromstimulation kann unserem Gehirn zu mehr Leistung verhelfen. Die DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) hat gezeigt, dass man damit besser bei Computerspielen wird, die U.S. Air Force schaffte es, die Dauer ihres Pilotentrainings für ferngesteuerte Drohnen zu halbieren, und Wissenschaftler aus Harvard nutzen sie zur Behandlung von Depressionen. Was ist di...

THE GROWTH and success of Facebook is truly phenomenal. From a project concocted by a student hacker in his Harvard dormroom in 2004 it has become the giant of the web with 483 million people using the social network every day, one million of them coming from Ireland.

The unnamed Indian-American student in California complained that the two universities discriminate against Asian-Americans in undergraduate admissions, according to a media Bloomberg report.

Facebook a déposé hier le dossier de ce qui s'annonce comme la plus grosse introduction en Bourse jamais réalisée par la net-économie. Une opération chiffrée pour le moment à 5 milliards de dollars, huit ans après la création du site internet dans une chambre d'étudiant de Harvard.

Stefan Grobe, Euronews : Nous allons analyser les primaires de Floride avec Jeffry Frieden, économiste et professeur à l'Université de Harvard, qui…

[[350081]] PARIS (AFP) : Elle a été étudiée à Harvard et Barack Obama en est fan: la série TV "The Wire", qui dissèque l'univers du trafic de drogue à Baltimore, suscite un regain d'intérêt en France où chercheurs et politiques y voient un "outil" de compréhension des quartiers populaires. "C'est...

Bryan Smith scored 22 points to lead Fordham to a 60-54 win over No. 21 Harvard on Tuesday night.

Si alguien representa mejor que nadie al 1% contra el que protestan los indignados de Occupy Wall Street es Mitt Romney, de 64 años. El hijo menor de un ejecutivo de la industria automovilística de Detroit que llegó a gobernador de Michigan y a ministro de Urbanismo con Nixon recibió como primer nombre Willard por el magnate hotelero J. Willard Marriott, íntimo amigo de su padre. Después de est...

HONOLULU/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will nominate Harvard economist Jeremy Stein and Jerome Powell, an investment banker and former Treasury official, to the two empty seats on the Federal Reserve's policy-setting board of governors.

Using a new molecule-flattening technique, researchers at Harvard can track small objects, such as these DNA molecules, under a fluorescence microscope.

Connie Rice's efforts at healing the wounded heart of L.A.'s civic life, mending the broken ties among police and power structure and the public, as well as her long journey here are laid out in her book, "Power Concedes Nothing."Connie Rice was 13 and her father was a test pilot at Edwards Air Force Base when the family drove from the high desert to church at First AME in L.A. She saw the city...

Wenn Michael Sandel in Harvard über Gerechtigkeit philosophiert, hört ihm die Welt zu. Seine Vorlesungen werden in Asien millionenfach heruntergeladen.

The Harvard innovation guru puts his money where the disruption is. Clayton Christensen is a giant in the world of technology innovation. The Harvard Business School professor (who stands 6 feet 8 inches tall) came up with the influential theory of disruptive technology and this year was crowned by Forbes magazine as the "the world's most influential business thinker."

For years, Ted Kaptchuk performed acupuncture at a tiny clinic in Cambridge, a few miles from his current office, at the Harvard Medical School. He opened for business in 1976, on a street so packed with alternative healers that it was commonly referred to as “quack row.” Kaptchuk . . . (Subscription required.)

Eigentlich wollte ich mich heute wieder anderen Themen (als Blogger ebenso wie als Leser und Kommentator) widmen, aber die Coverstory der aktuellen ScienceTimes über Steven Pinker, Human Nature's Pathologist und die daneben gestellten Pinkerisms, will ich dann doch noch einmal als Lesetipp hier platzieren. Zum besseren Verständnis: Ich empfehle nicht nur Artikel, die ich selbst mit einem "h...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Harvard scientists have built a new type of flexible robot that is limber enough to wiggle and worm through tight spaces....

The literary slugfest between Indian author Pankaj Mishra and British historian Niall Ferguson has provoked much angst and a little amusement. Here’s the background: Ferguson, currently the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, wrote Civilization: The West and the Rest earlier this year. Ferguson is regarded as one of the world’s most unabashedly right-wing historia...

Wu-Tang Clan rapper GZA/The Genius is set to give a lecture about his music career and lyrical craft at Harvard's Black Men's Forum on December 1st The lecture which will be held at 4 pm will be followed by a Q&A with the legendary emcee and is open to the...

The former U.S. Treasury Secretary and Harvard president tells the Globe's Brian Milner, that the future of the Euro will rest heavily on what European politicians do next

Twenty courses provided by 18 top Chinese universities went online, China's own version of Harvard open courses.

Der Schriftsteller Martin Walser hat an der Universität Harvard eine Rede zum 9. November gehalten. Darin zieht er die Summe seines Lebens und Werks.

It was the Facebook founders first official trip to the school since he left in 2004.

Michael "Zappy" Zapolin has scored a major honor for his latest category killing domain name development project - PrescriptionDrugs.com. The Harvard Business School has selected the site as a candidate in their "New Ventures" competition. Zappy will present to a panel of judges this month with a spot in the final 3 on the line.