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Le Laboratoire Cambridge Explores “The Trouble with Jellyfish”
For nearly a decade, Parisian-based think tank Le Laboratoire, founded by biomedical engineer and Harvard University professor David Edwards, has been an incubator for experiments, […]
How Much Do Debt-Strapped Graduates of Boston’s Universities Make?
Somewhere in between the 239th bowl of microwave ramen and the eighth rat darting through the illegal attic apartment in Allston, a college student in […]
See Where Massachusetts Universities Rank in U.S. News’s Best Colleges List
U.S. News and World Report released its 2016 “Best Colleges” rankings Wednesday, with Massachusetts colleges and universities predictably well-represented. There was little movement within the top 10, […]
Female Students Plan to Audition for All-Male Hasty Pudding Cast
Since 1884, Hasty Pudding Theatricals, an undergraduate theater troupe at Harvard, has been putting on burlesque productions powered by an all-male cast, with actors donning […]
Harvard, Ye Hypocrites
On the global issue that matters most, Harvard is losing credibility—not to mention money.
BU, Harvard Legends Chris Drury, Angela Ruggiero to Join U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame
USA Hockey announced its latest class of Hall of Fame inductees Monday, and this year’s crop has a distinct Massachusetts flair. Boston University forward and 1998 […]
Happy 163rd Anniversary, Harvard-Yale Rivalry
Harvard and Yale have been around for quite some time, and have spent sizable chunks of that time in fierce competition with the other. In […]
Prolific Twitter User Ed Balls to Join Harvard Kennedy School
Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government has named former UK Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer Ed Balls as its newest senior fellow […]
Should You Donate Huge Sums to Harvard? Malcolm Gladwell Doesn’t Think So
Journalist and author Malcolm Gladwell sparked a debate about the merits of donating huge sums to wealthy universities this week when he took to Twitter to sneer […]
Harvard Dropouts Make GIF-Making Easy with GIFYouTube
A GIF is sometimes the only way to properly express an emotion. And now, thanks to brothers and Harvard dropouts Rory and Kieran O’Reilly, manufacturing […]
Harvard’s Engineering School Just Received a $400 Million Gift
There’s a new leader in the race to see who can give the most incomprehensibly enormous sum of money to Harvard University. Harvard announced Wednesday that […]
Harvard Study Says Humblebragging Is Useless, So Maybe Just Regular-Brag Instead
People know by now that it’s really hard being an awesome, impressive human being. How on Earth does one project his or her own importance without coming off […]
Goodbye to Mr. Burns, Harvard’s Greatest Weapon
With news that voice actor Harry Shearer will not rejoin the cast of the Simpsons next season, we must bid goodbye to the many characters he […]
Fossil Fuel Investments Cost Harvard $21 Million in Past Three Years
Earlier this month, Harvard’s administration encountered a weeklong flood of climate change activists demanding the university divest its hulking $36 billion endowment from fossil fuels. Despite increasing […]
Boston Pulls Together to Support Nepal Earthquake Relief Efforts
A recording of a Nepali crooner poured through a set of speakers at Copley Square on Sunday night as several hundred people gathered to reflect […]