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Harvard Dining Services Backtracks on Decision to Pull Israeli-Made Soda Equipment
Harvard University Dining Services’ decision to stop buying Israeli-made soda machines and water fountains used at the school’s cafeteria, due to ongoing controversy between Israel […]
Tutoring App Offers Students Academic Help on the Spot
Students with last-minute questions about homework, or who are running into problems studying for a final exam, can now get help solving their academic quandaries […]
Four Major Institutions Partner for New HUBweek Festival
Get ready to add a big new festival to your 2015 calendar. The Globe revealed Friday morning that it’s collaborating with three major local institutions—MIT, Harvard, and Mass General—to […]
Harvard Kennedy School Course Will Examine ‘Consequences of America’s Use of Torture’
Alberto Mora is co-teaching a class called “On Cruelty: Costs and Consequences of America’s Use of Torture as a Weapon of War” next semester at […]
HBS Student Launches Fundraiser in Response to the Sichuan Garden Rant
Can Harvard Business School students donate their way to a better public image after a professor tarnished it with a now-infamous rant against a Chinese […]
Seth Rogen and Harvard Lampoon’s Alexis Wilkinson Talk Politics and Humor
They say it’s hard work to be a politician. But, as noted by Seth Rogen, it might be even harder to make fun of a politician. […]
J.K. Rowling’s Harvard Speech Is Being Turned Into a Picture Book
Everything that Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling writes seems to have a little bit of magic in it. The best-selling author, who has transcended her craft […]
Harvard and Yale Are Teaming Up to Teach a Computer Programming Course
Yale and Harvard are stepping past their rivalry, and coming together to offer students interested in the computer sciences an “enjoyable, interesting, and exciting” opportunity […]
Harvard Prank on Yale ‘Actually Succeeded’
Harvard students don’t care what Yale has to say—they think they were successful in pulling off yet another epic prank on their Ivy League rivals […]
Throwback Thursday: When Harvard Helped Invent Football
This weekend Harvard’s football team will face Yale as spectators watch one of the oldest American sports rivalries play out. While the actual quality of […]
Why Harvard Is Being Sued Over Affirmative Action
Why is an Asian-American man suing Harvard University over its affirmative action policies? On Monday, Students for Fair Admissions, the same group behind the affirmative […]
Five Locals Make Foreign Policy’s ‘100 Leading Global Thinkers’ List
Foreign Policy magazine released its sixth annual “100 Leading Global Thinkers” list Monday, recognizing 100 individuals and teams in various fields with inspired and influential ideas. The Global […]
Harvard Tries to Prank Yale, Fails
Last year, Harvard students won the Internet when they traveled to Connecticut and put on some Yale gear, and then proceeded to give college tours […]
Even Harvard Students Failed the 1964 Louisiana Literacy Test
The 1964 Louisiana Literacy Test, designed to thwart black residents living in the South at that time from voting in general elections, was as controversial as […]
The Business of Being Beyoncé, According to Harvard
In late September, Harvard Business School professor Anita Elberse certainly grabbed everyone’s attention when she revealed that she and former student Stacie Smith were writing a […]