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Twenty-eight U.S. and international journalists have been chosen for fellowships at HarvardUniversity for the 2008-2009 academic year, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism announced Tuesday.
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer - May 6, 2008 Stephen G. Breyer, associate justice of the Supreme Court, took his seat in 1994. His book Active Liberty is based on the Tanner lectures on Human Values that Justice Breyer delivered at HarvardUniversity in November 2004. In it, Justice Breyer argues that the Constitution's lasting brilliance is that its principles may adapt to cope...
Eight years ago, I was not admitted to join the London School of Economics despite what I thought was a good application having been helped by a friend, who had just returned from HarvardUniversity.
BETHESDA, Md. - Ben Crawford, Crawford Renovation has been selected as a finalist for the 2008 Fred Case Remodeling Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Ben Crawford was selected by a panel of judges representing Case, Hanleywood and HarvardUniversity’
Dean Kagan has just announced that the Berkman Center, which had been part of Harvard Law, is now an interdisciplinary center, part of HarvardUniversity overall. This is not only quite an honor. It also will embed the Center even more directly in the full range of Harvard's discourse.[Tags: berkman ...
Source: [b]HarvardUniversity[/b] Scientists have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and NRAO's Very Large Array to discover the most recent supernova explosion in our Galaxy, as measured in Earth's time frame. Live audio of the teleconference will be streamed online at: http://www.nasa.gov/n...
Guest blogger Sasha Dichter is Director of Business Development at Acumen Fund. Before joining Acumen, Dichter held senior positions in the corporate citizenship departments of GE Money and IBM. He earned a B.A., M.A., and M.B.A., all from HarvardUniversity. By Sasha Dichter Today, we had the pleasure of meeting with the MicroDrip team to discuss their drip irrigation systems being...
Washington, May 14 (ANI): Girls and young women between the ages of 12 and 35, who exercise on a regular basis can substantially cut their risk of developing breast cancer, says a new study. Researchers at WashingtonUniversity School of Medicine in St. Louis and HarvardUniversity in Boston found that remaining physically active until the [...]
( HarvardUniversity ) A team composed of Harvard students and alumni was among the winners of the World Bank's Lighting Africa 2008 Development Marketplace competition, held in Accra, Ghana from May 6-8, 2008. The innovation, microbial fuel cell-based lighting systems suitable for Sub-Saharan Africa, netted the group a $200,000 prize.
By studying campaign strategy during the 2004 presidential general election, political scientists have shown that candidates are increasingly targeting individual voters, based on controversial wedge issues. Researchers from HarvardUniversity and the University of Arkansas have shown that this leads to fragmentation of the campaign dialogue, and has potential to be problematic...
The American Scene has a provocative article that argues that HarvardUniversity is actually a hedge fund, one that happens not to be subject to taxation. Porsche (the luxury car company) also makes most of its money by way of derivatives, as opposed to building and selling cars.
Jay Ackroyd points out that Harvard isn't really an institution of higher learning: Harvard's net assets increased about $7 billion in 2007, from about $35 billion to about $42 billion. Viewed purely in terms of economics, Harvard is really a $40 billion tax-free hedge fund with a very large marketing and PR arm called HarvardUniversity that [...]
SECRETARY-GENERAL TO GIVE SPEECH ON NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT AT HARVARDUNIVERSITYNew York, May 13 2008 6:00PM Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will deliver a speech on nuclear disarmament next week at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at HarvardUniversity in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The event, which is scheduled to take place on 23 May, will be open to the public. Before...
City officials joined executives of Finale Desserterie Tuesday at the opening of the company's new headquarters and baking facility in a HarvardUniversity-owned building in the Allston section of Boston.