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Harvard stories: 106 news summaries

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 Colon Cancer Gene Discovered 

Cancer growth gene identified

Sep 15, 08 6:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Researchers have discovered a key gene that may contribute to the growth of colon cancer and could provide a target for new therapies, Bloomberg reports. The gene, CDK8, controls a cell growth switch that researchers think might spur the development of many tumors. The discovery may help up to 50%... More »

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medical research • cancer research • colon cancer • Genentech • Harvard • Dana Farber Cancer Institute • AstraZeneca • Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development

 Harvard Probes Racism Charges Against Its Cops

Blacks say they're targeted by security

Aug 27, 08 3:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Harvard University is reviewing its security procedures after black students and professors charged that they're being unfairly targeted, the Boston Globe reports. A six-member committee will review the campus force following a number of incidents, including one in which a black professor was stopped when he was mistaken for a... More »

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discrimination • racism • Harvard • campus • campus security • students

Harvard Bumps Princeton
in Top Colleges List

Smaller class size helps Harvard back to top of influential US News ranking

Aug 22, 08 9:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Harvard has reclaimed sole possession of the top spot in the ever-controversial US News and World Report rankings for the first time in 12 years. Princeton slipped to second, with Yale in third and Stanford and MIT tied for fourth spot. The magazine rates the halls of learning based on... More »

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Ivy League • college rankings • higher education • Harvard • universities • colleges and universities • Princeton • Yale

Harvard's Endowment Shines in Tough  Financial Year

$35B fund sees modest 7%-9% growth

Aug 7, 08 10:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Harvard’s endowment did better than most in the down market, reports the Wall Street Journal. The $35 billion fund, which ended its fiscal year in June, earned 7% to 9%. “That would be easily the best performer among the foundations and endowments that we track," says a... More »

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investing • higher education • Harvard • commodities • endowment • hedge funds

Ivy Leaguers Start Ahead, Stay Ahead

Take that English degree to Wall Street and you'll still cash in

Aug 1, 08 12:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - How much you make correlates with where you went to school, a new study finds. Bachelor’s degree holders’ salaries grow at the same rate over the first decade of their careers regardless of the school, the Wall Street Journal reports, but Ivy League graduates’ median starting salary is 32%... More »

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Ivy League • higher education • income • salary gap • Dartmouth • Ohio State University • Harvard • income disparity

 Yoga Turning 
 B-Schoolers 
 on Their Heads 

Capitalists latch on to search for inner peace

Jul 20, 08 7:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - Inner peace through capitalism? Americans spend $5.7 billion a year on yoga classes and products, and now, BusinessWeek reports, yoga clubs are cropping up in some of the country's most high-pressured institutions: top business schools. "Having a yoga practice helped sort through the white noise," one MIT... More »

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MIT • business • University of Chicago • stress • business school • capitalism • Harvard • yoga • BusinessWeek • Northwestern University

Idealism Met Different End
for Obama Sr.

Kenya's graft drove Dem's father to drink, untimely death at 46

Jul 17, 08 4:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Like his candidate son, Barack Obama Sr. was charismatic, eloquent and idealistic, those who knew him say—so idealistic he was devastated by the corruption he saw in his native Kenya. The Harvard grad was so disillusioned upon his return to Africa, the Los Angeles Times reports, he turned to... More »

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Barack Obama • Kenya • alcoholism • Harvard • Barack Obama Sr. • disillusionment

 Rowling Casts Spell at Harvard 

Fight the monsters, she urges

Jun 6, 08 7:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - Harry Potter birth mom JK Rowling yesterday urged Harvard graduates at their commencement to use their imaginations on more than wizards and muggles to envision—and create—a better world. She recalled the rewarding time she spent when she was younger working for prisoners of totalitarian regimes for Amnesty International.... More »

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Harry Potter • JK Rowling • Amnesty International • wizard • political prisoner • Harvard • Albus Dumbledore • commencement speech

 Pinched Oxford Wants $2.5B 

Needs cash to compete with Ivy League

May 29, 08 7:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - Prestigious Oxford University is pleading poverty and has begun a campaign to raise funds to make it competitive with Harvard, Yale, and Princeton for academic talent, reports the Christian Science Monitor. The university—actually a collection of individual colleges—aims to raise $2.5 billion, but even that is chump... More »

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Oxford University • donor • Harvard • Cambridge University • Princeton • endowment • Yale • Buckingham University • Higher Education Funding Council • alumni

 Best Alma Maters
 for Billionaires 

Yeah, Harvard's the place to be

May 22, 08 3:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bill Gates and Carl Icahn may be college dropouts (Harvard and NYU, respectively), but most billionaires carry a sheepskin diploma with them. These top-tier universities have educated the most billionaires:
  1. Harvard: with 50, including Steve Ballmer, Michael Bloomberg, and Sumner Redstone.
  1. Stanford: was founded by
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Columbia University • billionaire • University of Pennsylvania • Harvard • colleges and universities • Yale

Pregnancy Stress Ups Kid's Asthma Risk

Babies' immune systems respond to pressures on moms

May 19, 08 4:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Stress an expectant mother experiences can increase her child’s predisposition to allergies and asthma, Reuters reports. Mothers-to-be with high stress levels gave birth to babies with high levels of an immune compound involved in the allergenic response, Harvard researchers found—even when their environmental exposure to allergens was low. More »

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pregnancy • mothers • stress • immune system • infant • Harvard • infants • allergic reaction

 Mistress Recalls
 Mailer Sex Roles 

Casting couch among Pulitzer-winner's role-play favorites, Carole Mallory says

May 5, 08 11:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Norman Mailer’s fanciful sex life is giving his best-selling books a run for their money as his legacy, the New York Post reports. Mailer's longtime lover Carole Mallory—who recently hawked her X-rated writings about Mailer's sexual experimentation to Harvard—says the Pulitzer Prize-winner "liked me to dress... More »

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sex • affair • Harvard • Norman Mailer • Carole Mallory

 Harvard Gets $100M 
 From Rockefeller 

Gift will fund study-abroad and arts programs

Apr 25, 08 3:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - Harvard fund managers rejoice! The university will get to stock its coffers, already $35 billion strong, with a $100 million gift from David Rockefeller, the largest ever by an alumnus, the New York Times reports. The money will be used to expand the university's arts program and help more... More »

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philanthropy • Ivy League • Harvard • endowment • David Rockefeller

Harvard Buys Mailer Mistress' Lusty Litany

Papers include 50-page sex scene based on relationship

Apr 23, 08 3:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - Harvard missed out on acquiring the papers of late novelist Norman Mailer, but it's bought the next-best thing—those of his longtime mistress Carole Mallory, the New York Post reports. The package includes a 20-page sex scene from an unpublished memoir called Making Love With Norman. "Norman was a... More »

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Harvard • Norman Mailer • Carole Mallory

 'Chicago Was 
 His Harvard 
 of Politics' 

A look back at Obama's early political presence

Apr 21, 08 12:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s unconventional personal background contrasts sharply with the roots of his political instincts and career. In Chicago's patronage-happy system, the young pol learned to break bread with conservatives, play to the black masses, and even get his back up when necessary. The Wall Street Journal examines the candidate’... More »

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Barack Obama • Chicago • Harvard • African-American voters • bipartisanship • patronage

Facebook and Rival Settling Origins Lawsuit

ConnectU had accused Zuckerberg of filching social network ideas

Apr 7, 08 2:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Pending lawsuits between Facebook and rival social networking site ConnectU will be settled, a source tells the New York Times. The founders of ConnectU accused Mark Zuckerberg of stealing their ideas back when both sites were in their infancy, and the Facebook CEO filed a countersuit against his former Harvard... More »

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Facebook • Mark Zuckerberg • lawsuit • ConnectU • settlement • Harvard • Cameron Winklevoss • Tyler Winklevoss • Divya Narendra

Top Colleges Report Record Low Rates of Admission

Harvard accepts just 7% of applicants

Apr 1, 08 3:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Acceptance letters from the nation's top colleges will begin to arrive on prospective students' doorsteps today, but far more rejection letters are in the mail than ever before, reports the New York Times. Harvard and Yale accepted only 7.1% and 8.3% of applicants, respectively, both record lows... More »

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education • Columbia University • Yale University • Ivy League • college admissions • college • university • Dartmouth • Harvard • college applications

OPINION

Bravo to Harvard for Women-Only Gym Hours

Islam-friendly policy fits 'regime of reasonable accommodation'

Mar 26, 08 7:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - Harvard was right to close a gym to men for six hours each week so Muslim women can exercise in comfort, Ruth Marcus writes in the Washington Post. Bloggers might be charging “Sharia at Harvard” and some students might be exercised about another decision to broadcast calls to prayer... More »

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Muslims • Islamic Sharia law • Harvard • gyms • hijabs

Ivy Aid May Hit 2nd-Tier Schools

Big scholarships could siphon top students who couldn't afford Harvard

Mar 5, 08 12:35 PM CST
(Newser) - It’s easy to applaud the generosity the Ivy League is lavishing on the middle class, but it could have unintended consequences, Newsweek notes. Second-tier schools and elite public universities rely on the highly talented middle-class kids Harvard and company are targeting. “Schools compete hard for those students,... More »

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Ivy League • higher education • middle class • Harvard • financial aid • endowment • Colgate University

Harvard Begins Women-Only Gym Hours

Controversial move to make Muslim females more comfortable

Mar 5, 08 10:49 AM CST
(Newser) - Harvard is trying out women-only gym hours at one of its facilities to make exercising easier for Muslim women. Six of the 70 hours a week that the Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center is open will be barred to men so that Muslim women feel free to dress appropriately for working... More »

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Islam • Muslim Americans • sexism • athlete • Muslim • exercise • Harvard • Muslim women • gym

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