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Slick Invention Can Un-Stick Your Ketchup, Toothpaste

LiquiGlide, SLIPS Technologies take advantage of 'liquid-impregnated surfaces'

(Newser) - Hate when you can't get the last of the toothpaste from the tube? Or when your plane is delayed so it can be de-iced? Those days may soon be over thanks to what are essentially surfaces coated with liquid. Researchers at both Harvard and MIT have taken advantage of...

Harvard Secretly Photographed Students

University is under fire for attendance study

(Newser) - Harvard is under fire from faculty and students for secretly photographing about 2,000 undergraduates in 10 lecture halls last spring as part of a study on classroom attendance. The experiment was disclosed at a faculty meeting Tuesday and first reported in the Harvard Crimson student newspaper. Harvard computer science...

Harvard University Students Get Racial Death Threat

Police investigating email sent to people with Asian names

(Newser) - A death threat emailed to hundreds of Asian students at Harvard has authorities on alert this weekend, reports the Boston Globe . Police say they don't know whether the email is legit, but they've asked students to familiarize themselves with the school's "active shooter" guidelines as a...

Harvard Business School Is Bad for America
Harvard Business School
Is Bad for America

 
OPINION
Sep 17, 2014 12:37 PM CDT

Harvard Business School Is Bad for America

Robert Reich: It keeps churning out CEOs who boost profits at expense of all else

(Newser) - Decades ago, American CEOs were more like "corporate statesmen," writes Robert Reich at Salon . They looked after their shareholders, of course, but they balanced those interests with those of their workers, their communities, and their nation. Today, not so much. They're more like "corporate butchers,"...

Harvard Gets Its Biggest Donation Ever: $350M

Money goes to School of Public Health

(Newser) - An alum is handing Harvard its biggest donation ever. The university's School of Public Health will receive $350 million from Gerald Chan, 63, the head of a property developer in Hong Kong. He chose the School of Public Health for his donation after he was inspired by a teacher...

Origami Robot Can Fold Itself, Slink Off

Harvard, MIT engineers invent device made out of paper, Shrinky Dinks

(Newser) - Inexpensive robots that assemble themselves are hard to find these days. But using the ancient art of Japanese origami and a classic children's product, engineers at Harvard and MIT have created such a 'bot. A team led by a Harvard grad student built the self-folding robot shown in...

Harvard Book Is Indeed Bound in Human Skin

French poet gave book to friend

(Newser) - Harvard has confirmed a creepy find in its Houghton Library: A 19th-century book about the soul is bound in human skin. Tests revealed that French poet's Arsène Houssaye’s Des Destinées de l'Ame—The Destiny of the Soul—really does have a human binding, backing up...

Uproar Over Harvard Group's Satanic 'Black Mass'

University president issues statement, attends Catholic holy hour

(Newser) - A student group at Harvard had a devil of a time holding a planned Satanic "black mass" yesterday. The Harvard Extension Cultural Studies Club, in tandem with the NY-based Satanic Temple, had originally scheduled the event—a parody of the Catholic Mass—to take place at 8pm on campus....

Harvard Student Caused Bomb Scare to Dodge Exam

He now has no hope of dodging prison

(Newser) - Calling in a bomb threat is a really, really bad way to try to get out of your final exams, a Harvard student has discovered. The FBI says Eldo Kim, 20, has confessed to sending an email warning of "shrapnel bombs" on campus, forcing the evacuation of four buildings...

Harvard Reopens Buildings After Bomb Scare

An email tip apparently triggered evacuations

(Newser) - Harvard University has reopened four buildings on campus after evacuating them this morning due to a bomb scare, the Harvard Crimson reports. Sever Hall, Thayer Hall, and Emerson Hall were all cleared in time for afternoon exams, and Harvard Yard was reopened before 2pm. An email tip prompted the threat,...

52% of Young Adults Want to 'Recall' Obama

Few plan to enroll in ObamaCare: Harvard data

(Newser) - A new poll has some worrying news for a president long popular with young people. Some 52% of 18- to 24-year-olds would vote to recall President Obama if that were an option, Mediaite reports. Just 41% of 18- to 29-year-olds, or millennials, approve of the job he's doing in...

Harvard's Problem: Too Many 'A' Grades

Prof blasts grade inflation

(Newser) - Think you have problems? Harvard is dealing with what appears to be an alarming proliferation of A grades, sparking accusations of grade inflation. At a meeting yesterday, longtime professor Harvey Mansfield got Harvard College's dean of undergraduate education to admit that the median grade at the institution is an...

Harvard's Humanitarian of the Year: Malala

Pakistani girl who survived assassination is honored

(Newser) - The teenage Pakistani girl who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban has been honored as Harvard University's humanitarian of the year. Malala Yousafzai, an outspoken proponent for girls' education, accepted the honor yesterday at the university. She spoke nostalgically about her home region, the Swat Valley, and said...

Ted Cruz: Proud to Be a Wacko Bird

 Ted Cruz: 
 Proud to Be 
 a Wacko Bird 
GQ Profile
Sep 23, 2013 5:03 PM CDT

Ted Cruz: Proud to Be a Wacko Bird

(Newser) - For its upcoming edition, GQ profiles controversial Tea Party Republican and possible Canadian Ted Cruz. It's a long one, full of colorful anecdotes about the man in the ostrich-skin cowboy boots, so we've plucked out some of the highlights:
  • Cruz has embraced the "Wacko Bird" nickname bestowed
...

For Harvard Cheaters, an Uneasy Return to School

They face new campus culture as university looks at honor

(Newser) - Last year's Harvard cheating scandal earned some 70 culprits the boot ; now, with the new school year beginning, they're returning to campus. But things are different now, the New York Times reports: For one thing, interactions with fellow students are fraught with unspoken tension. "I think everybody...

42% of Harvard Freshmen Admit to Cheating

Survey won't exactly help university's image issues

(Newser) - To get into Harvard, you have to be the best and the brightest—or at least copy off the best and brightest's paper. In a Harvard Crimson survey, 10% of incoming freshmen said they'd cheated on a test, 17% admitted cheating on a paper or take-home project, and...

Harvard Dean Ousted Over Scandal

Evelynn Hammonds resigns amid scrutiny

(Newser) - The dean of Harvard College is stepping down amid controversy over her decision to authorize searches of faculty email accounts in relation to the school's cheating scandal , the Boston Globe reports. While the email announcing Evelynn Hammonds' departure didn't specifically mention the email snooping, Hammonds was in the...

Meet RoboBee, World's Smallest Flying Robot

Harvard's robotic fly is about the size of a dime

(Newser) - The Guardian calls it the "smallest flying robot in the world," DVice has it as the "world's smallest aerial drone," and USA Today settles for "electronic housefly." By whichever name, the dime-sized device by Harvard scientists is amazing. (They call it "RoboBee,...

Harvard Upsets New Mexico, 68-62
Harvard Win Messes Up America's Brackets
march madness
Mar 22, 2013 2:28 AM CDT

Harvard Win Messes Up America's Brackets

14th-seeded Crimson gets first NCAA tournament win

(Newser) - Give those Harvard kids an A-plus in another subject: Bracket-busting 101. The school known for producing US presidents, Supreme Court justices, and Nobel Prize winners earned its first NCAA tournament victory last night—a 68-62 upset of No. 3 seed New Mexico—and it didn't feel like a fluke....

Faculty Furious After Harvard Snoops in Email Accounts

Administrators sought source of leak on cheating

(Newser) - Harvard faculty members are fuming over word that the university quietly searched 16 resident deans' email accounts following a cheating scandal . Administrators were investigating how an internal memo responding to the scandal was leaked to the media, the New York Times reports. "People are just bewildered at this point,...

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