40,246 apply to Harvard College Class of 2024
Applications for admission to Harvard College’s Class of 2024 totaled 40,246, the third time in Harvard’s history that applications have exceeded 40,000. Last year,...
Northeastern holds Global Leadership Summit in Mumbai
By Namrata Kolachalam
News at Northeastern
MUMBAI, India—On Saturday, the Northeastern global community gathered in Mumbai, a city of 20 million occasionally referred to as the...
MIT’s Mehtaab Sawhney and Duke’s Azim Dharani Among 15 Named 2020 Churchill Scholars
BOSTON--MIT’s Mehtaab Sawhney and Duke University's Azim Dharani are among 15 individuals named 2020 Churchill scholars. The prestigipus Churchill Scholarships are given in science,...
Visually Impaired coders shine at Inclusive STEM Confluence
LEXINGTON, MA--Lexington, MA-based non-profit Vision-Aid announced the successful completion of the “Inclusive STEM Confluence 2020”, a unique, one of a kind event, organized by...
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos Provides Updated School Prayer Guidance
Washington — U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced that the Department of Education is taking several concrete actions to protect religious liberty and...
Application Opens for 2020 Excellence in Energy and Environmental Education Awards in Massachusetts
BOSTON – The Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) of Massachusetts announced it is now accepting nominations for its annual Secretary’s Awards...
Babson College Fires Indian-American Professor Asheen Phansey for Joke About Iranian Bomb List of...
WELLESLEY, MA– An Indian-American professor, who posted a joke on Facebook about Iran choosing 52 US cultural sites to bomb, has been fired by...
Unlearning racial bias
By Manisha Aggarwal-Schifellite
Harvard Staff Writer
Miao Qian, a postdoctoral research fellow with the Inequality in America Initiative, studies the development of implicit racial biases in children...
How I wrote my Harvard essay
By Manisha Aggarwal-Schifellite
The Harvard Gazette
Late nights. Discarded drafts. That one great idea. Most high school seniors would agree that the admissions essay is the...
Men likelier to promote their findings as groundbreaking — and reap the rewards
By Jake Miller
The Harvard Gazette
Perception is reality, the adage goes, and that may even be true when it comes to conveying the findings of...
