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Utahn enjoys Games -- in all 3 official languages: Traditionally, three languages are used at the Olympic Games. And one Utahn who has found himself at a few events in Beijing can understand them all. Kenneth Brewer, a Timpview High School graduate and Harvard College undergrad, is part of an intense language training program hosted by Harvard....; Tags: Beijing, China, E-mail, Games, Government, Harvard College, Manufacturing; Research articles 2008-08-23
Visibility, accountability and discourse as essential to democracy: the underlying theme of Alan Dershowitz's writing and teaching: I have been writing about the law and justice for half a century. My first published law review piece appeared in 1960 as a student note in the Yale Law Journal. (1) Since that time, I have published nearly thirty books and hundreds of articles covering a wide range of...; Tags: A14, American, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, David, God, Harvard College, History, Holocaust, INTRODUCTION, J., Jews, John, Justice, King, Paper, Paul, Politics, Power, Rules, Seattle Times Co., U.S. Supreme Court, Warner, Yale University; Research articles 2008-06-22
Access to Ivy Leagues is about more than ambition: In the Forum piece "Yale, Harvard and the Oval Office," Michael Medved says the days of posh prep school grads easing into the Ivy colleges have ended. Thus, the overwhelming favoring of Harvard-Yale grads among presidential candidates reflects the ambition and achievement that access to those schools measure. Not quite...; Tags: FINANCE, Harvard, Harvard College, income, Yale University; Research articles 2008-06-18
The University of the Arts to Celebrate the Inauguration of President Sean T. Buffington: PHILADELPHIA -- The University of the Arts UArts will celebrate the inauguration of former Harvard University arts administrator Sean T. Buffington as its president with an investiture ceremony on Friday, April 18, 2008, at 11 a.m. in the Merriam Theater (250 S. Broad St.). A member of the Philadelphia Art...; Tags: CAREER, E-mail, Harvard College, Leadership, Philadelphia, president, Quality; Research articles 2008-04-02
Class and the Classroom.(Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites)(Book review): CREATING A CLASS: COLLEGE ADMISSIONS AND THE EDUCATION OF ELITES by MITCHELL L. STEVENS Harvard University Press, 320 pages, $25.95 IN THE UPPER REACHES OF Manhattan's East Side, the pristine McMansions of Palo Alto, and the verdant streets of Westchester County, life has surpassed...; Tags: admission, Harvard College, Harvard University; Research articles 2008-04-01

Harvard College names 1st Black, woman dean: [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Evelynn Hammonds was recently named dean of Harvard College, the undergraduate division of Harvard University in Cambridge, MA. She makes history as the first Black and first woman dean of the college. "I am honored to have this extraordinary opportunity to lead the college with...; Tags: Harvard College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Research articles 2008-03-24
Harvard tries women-only hours: BOSTON -- In a test of Harvard's famed open-mindedness, the university has banned men from one of its gyms for a few hours a week to accommodate Muslim women who say it offends their sense of modesty to exercise in front of the opposite sex. The policy...; Tags: Harvard College, women; Research articles 2008-03-05
Part Of Something Larger: By 1990, Artur Davis had worked his way up from a childhood of poverty in Alabama to the top of his graduating class at Harvard College, and he was a hard man to impress. On day one at Harvard Law, he stopped by a classroom to hear a speech by...; Tags: Alabama, Harvard College, Leadership; Research articles 2008-02-25
Harvard Turns a Corner: WITH THE RARE OPENING OF A NEW SCHOOL, THE UNIVERSITY RESTORES ENGINEERING TO ITS ONCE-PROMINENT SPOT. ON A WARM, SUNNY AFTERNOON in September, 2007, Harvard did something it hadn't done in more than 70 years: It opened a new school. The Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences...; Tags: engineering, FINANCE, Harvard, Harvard College, Lewis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, PRODUCTIVITY; Research articles 2008-02-01
Arent Fox LLP: Arent Fox LLP announced that Peter J. Fitzpatrick has joined the firm's corporate group as a partner in the New York office. His practice focuses on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts and corporate recapitalizations and restructurings relating to both public and private businesses. Prior to joining Arent Fox,...; Tags: FINANCE, Fordham University, Harvard College, Investment; Research articles 2008-01-09
Revealing painful pasts: more than a year ago, Brown University released its landmark report on its connections to slavery, but few universities have followed its lead in examining their own ties,: [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When Brown University released its landmark report on the institutions connections to slavery in the fall of 2006, academics and reparations advocates across the country praised the institution, but few universities have followed Brown's lead in examining their own history with slavery more than one year later....; Tags: Brown University, Harvard College, Yale University; Research articles 2007-11-29
Cantel Medical Appoints New Director: LITTLE FALLS, N.J. -- CANTEL MEDICAL CORP. (NYSE:CMN) Announced the appointment of Mark N. Diker to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Dr. Spencer Foreman as a director on June 25, 2007. Mr. Diker is co-founder of Diker Management LLC, a registered investment adviser which focuses on healthcare...; Tags: Benefits, board, director, Harvard College, HEALTHCARE, SOFTWARE; Research articles 2007-10-31
Reminiscences of our "sacred decade of twenties": 1. Paul Samuelson is the still active, oldest and most intimate friend of mine in the United States for the past seventy years. Paul came to the Harvard graduate school in economics in 1935 from Chicago and I joined the same class after graduating from Harvard College in the same...; Tags: Cable, CAREER, Harvard College, Japan, Paul, TELECOMMUNICATIONS; Research articles 2007-09-22
Pauletta and Denzel Washington Family Gifted Scholar: PAULETTA AND DENZEL WASHINGTON FAMILY GIFTED SCHOLAR: Academy Award-winning actor Denzel Washington (2nd, I) and his wife, Pauletta r, along with Dr. Keith L. Black, chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, present Connie Taylor (2nd, r), a second-year medical student at Atlanta's Morehouse...; Tags: ceremony, Harvard College, monthly, scholarship; Research articles 2007-08-06
John Adams and the pursuit of happiness: I THINK THAT WE NEED history as much as we need bread or water or love. To make the point, I want to discuss a single human being and why we should know him. First off, he is an example of the transforming miracle of education. When he and others...; Tags: CAREER, Declaration, education, France, Government, Harvard College, president, U.S. Congress; Research articles 2007-07-01
University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Communication: DR. ERNEST JAMES WILSON III has been appointed dean of the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Communication. He is currently a visiting professor at the school. Wilson holds a bachelor's from Harvard College and a master's and doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley.; Tags: Harvard College, University of California at Berkeley, University of Southern California; Research articles 2007-06-14
Laboratory Institute of Merchandising: DR. EDWARD M. STOLPER has been named provost of the California Institute of Technology. He had been the William E. Leonhard Professor of Geology at the university. Stolper earned a bachelor's from Harvard College, a master's from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and a doctorate from Harvard University.; Tags: California Institute of Technology, geology, Harvard College, Harvard University, professor, Scotland; Research articles 2007-06-14
2 top deans urge Harvard professors to reduce textbook costs: CAMBRIDGE -- Two top deans have asked Harvard University professors to reduce student expenditures on textbooks and other course material by putting those items online or by deciding earlier if they plan to use the same textbook in subsequent semesters so the bookstore can buy back copies for resale. ...; Tags: E-mail, FINANCE, Harvard College, textbook; Research articles 2007-04-09
Star moves: Actor Laurence Fishburne salsas with Harvard College sophomore Nicole Gandia at the Harvard Foundation's Cultural Rhythms-festival, where Fishburne received the Foundation's ArtiSts of the Year Award.; Tags: Harvard College; Research articles 2007-03-19
Portrait honors Harvard's first black female professor: Dr. S. Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation and a professor of Neuroscience at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, is joined by Natasha Alford, a senior at Harvard College and president of the Association of Black Harvard Women, during the unveiling of a portrait of the late Dr. Eileen...; Tags: Dr., Harvard, Harvard College, Harvard University, portrait, professor; Research articles 2007-03-05