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Jan 28, 2008 6:01 PM CST

Visually Impaired May Soon Watch TV

Scientists use algorithm to boost contrast for frequencies still visible

(Newser) - Macular degeneration, the disease which causes most age-related sight loss, can make it impossible for patients who suffer even only mild sight loss to watch TV. But help is on the way for these people, Technology Review reports, as Harvard researchers have developed an image-processing algorithm which allows the sight-impaired...

College Coffers Surging

Jan 24, 2008 7:05 PM CST

College Coffers Surging

A record 76 schools claim $1B or more in assets

(Newser) - Riding high on investment growth, a record number of higher-education institutions claimed endowment assets of more than $1 billion last year, USA Today reports. With the average endowment fetching a 17.2% rate of return, it isn’t hard to see why a study by a college business non-profit found...

JK Rowling to Speak at Harvard Commencement

Jan 18, 2008 4:54 AM CST

JK Rowling to Speak at Harvard Commencement

Hogwarts creator will get honorary degree

(Newser) - Harvard students will get a Hogwarts send-off at their spring commencement this year, reports the Crimson, with Harry Potter author JK Rowling as the keynote speaker. "Perhaps no one in our time has done more than JK Rowling to inspire young people to experience the excitement and the...

Yale Joins Financial Aid Parade

Jan 14, 2008 4:55 PM CST

Yale Joins Financial Aid Parade

Another Ivy acts to help families lighten tuition load

(Newser) - Yale will greatly increase its financial aid offerings in a plan similar to the one Harvard unveiled last month, the Yale Daily News reports. Families making between $120,000 and $200,000 ($20,000 more than Harvard's cut-off) annually will pay tuition of around 10% of income, and those earning...

Harvard Offers Middle-Class Parents Help*

OPINION

Dec 31, 2007 3:20 PM CST

Harvard Offers Middle-Class Parents Help*

*And pre-empts legislation far costlier for superrich schools

(Newser) - Generosity isn't what's fueling Harvard’s new $22 million giveaway to the middle class—it’s greed, educational consultant Steven Roy Goodman writes in the Boston Globe. Harvard’s giving the extra financial aid as a PR move, hoping to squash brewing legislation that would force universities to spend 5%...

Memories of 'Pinky's' Smile

Dec 28, 2007 10:06 AM CST

Memories of 'Pinky's' Smile

Schoolmate, ex- Time editor recalls Harvard undergrad Bhutto's warmth, intensity

(Newser) - What former Time editor Walter Isaacson remembers best about fellow Harvard student Benazir Bhutto is her warm smile—and how it contrasted with the intensity of her eyes. Her nickname, "Pinky," often seemed at odds with her serious personality and driving passion for politics at Harvard and later...

Tax Harvard
to Help Fund Poorer Colleges

OPINION

Dec 21, 2007 4:17 PM CST

Tax Harvard to Help Fund Poorer Colleges

Banker urges taxing investment earnings to close education gap

(Newser) - The growing disparity between the richest universities and their more modest counterparts is not as often discussed as other aspects of America's wealth gap, prominent investment banker Herbert Allen writes in the New York Times—but it should be. The nation’s wealthiest colleges have endowments topping $1 million per...

Harvard Steps Up Financial Aid

Dec 10, 2007 5:07 PM CST

Harvard Steps Up Financial Aid

University with $35B endowment opens coffers to help higher-income families

(Newser) - Harvard is rolling out a new financial aid initiative intended to assist more affluent families after a series of measures designed to help lower-income students. Families making more than $180,000 a year will pay significantly less under the new rules, the Boston Globe reports, and students will no longer...

In Higher Education, the Rich Get Richer

Dec 3, 2007 1:08 PM CST

In Higher Education, the Rich Get Richer

Funding gap widens breach between Ivies, public schools

(Newser) - As Ivy League schools upgrade dorms, financial aid, and student-faculty ratios, America’s public universities are losing out, BusinessWeek reports. The "Ivy Plus" schools, which include Stanford and MIT, represent 1% of the US student population but are the richest by far. "We can add resources in almost...

Facebook Court Defeat May Presage a Fall

OPINION

Dec 2, 2007 1:38 PM CST

Facebook Court Defeat May Presage a Fall

Zuckerberg's attempted censorship 'a major fumble', says columnist

(Newser) - Facebook has been handed a defeat in its attempts to censor the independent Harvard alumni magazine 02138, which published confidential court documents relating to founder Mark Zuckerberg's earlier work for a rival site. That's a good thing, says Kara Swisher of the Wall Street Journal, for whom the attempted injunction...

Getting into Harvard not as Easy as P-R-E-P

Dec 1, 2007 4:19 PM CST

Getting into Harvard not as Easy as P-R-E-P

Elite colleges taking more students from abroad, public schools

(Newser) - Ivy-League-seeking parents beware: admissions officers at top schools around the country are looking for more than just the private-school preppie. While private and prep schools still lead the way, a growing percentage of students at elite universities are public school grads and international scholars, the Wall Street Journal reveals. At...

Why Is Harvard Escaping the RIAA’s Wrath?

Nov 27, 2007 12:00 PM CST

Why Is Harvard Escaping the RIAA’s Wrath?

Industry group may be wary of angry law professors

(Newser) - The RIAA has sent out 4,157 prelitigation settlement letters to a total of 160 schools this year, but Harvard’s mailboxes have remained noticeably empty. And it’s not for a lack of potentially illegal music downloading. More likely, Ars Technica speculates, the recording industry is afraid of two...

Facebook Feud Heats Up

Nov 27, 2007 8:59 AM CST

Facebook Feud Heats Up

Independent Harvard alumni magazine dishes the dirt on it

(Newser) - Three former Harvard students who are suing Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for stealing their idea are finally about to get their day in court, reports the indy Harvard alumni magazine 02138. Forensic data experts are searching Zuckerberg’s computer hard drives, searching for source code, which the company claims is...

Living on the Edge in Connecticut

Oct 15, 2007 7:00 AM CDT

Living on the Edge in Connecticut

Will hedge-fund legend Victor Niederhoffer go broke again?

(Newser) - Victor Niederhoffer is many things: a champion squash player, a family man (six children from two wives and a mistress), a blogger, and a math prodigy. But mostly he is a trader. He amassed huge wealth working with George Soros in the 1980s, losing it all in 1997. He...

Facebook to Jump to Real-World Bookshelves

Oct 1, 2007 4:26 PM CDT

Facebook to Jump to Real-World Bookshelves

Recent Harvard grads plan satirical look at web giant

(Newser) - The kudzu of the internet will spread beyond the virtual world to bookstore shelves next year with the publication of The Facebook Book, a satirical look at the social-networking phenomenon. The authors, both recent Harvard grads, say they plan a "fictional and fanciful" take on Harvard dropout Mark Zuckerberg's...

Women Wired to Fall for
Bass Baritones

Sep 26, 2007 4:11 AM CDT

Women Wired to Fall for Bass Baritones

Study finds evolutionary preference for deep voices

(Newser) - Posh Spice may not agree, but new research shows that women are more drawn to the deep baritone of a Barry White than the higher-pitched squeak of a David Beckham. Studies of the Hadza tribe of Tanzania, whose lifestyle is similar to that of early man, reveal that men with...

Moonie Scion
Is Gun Magnate

Sep 22, 2007 3:20 PM CDT

Moonie Scion Is Gun Magnate

Reverend’s son Justin has built a lethal—and godly— weapons business

(Newser) - The son of aging messianic leader Reverend Sun Myung Moon is the frontrunner to take over the Unification Church. Meantime, he’s built Kahr Arms—which makes some of the smallest and most lethal guns. One of 13 children, young Justin Moon was encouraged to be violent, Portfolio reports, and...

Top 10 US Business Schools

Aug 19, 2007 5:43 AM CDT

Top 10 US Business Schools

Step it up a notch (and raise your profile) at these elite centers of learning.

(Newser) - Forbes ranked these business schools not only on their prestige but for their return on investment.

Dartmouth (Tuck)
Stanford
Harvard

Princeton Wins
College Rankings
for 8th Year

Aug 17, 2007 6:35 PM CDT

Princeton Wins College Rankings for 8th Year

Annual survey comes under increasing fire for favoring the rich

(Newser) - Facing a barrage of criticism, the latest college rankings from U.S. News and World Report were released today, and Princeton is still No.1, followed by Harvard and Yale. The editors have tried to address complaints about the survey's bias toward schools that educate the well-to-do and the well-prepared....

Judge Mulls Second Suit Against Facebook Founder

Jul 26, 2007 5:22 AM CDT

Judge Mulls Second Suit Against Facebook Founder

ConnectU suing Mark Zuckerberg for stealing their code

(Newser) - The former Harvard friends who unsuccessfully sued Facebook's founder two years ago for stealing their idea are trying again. They filed another suit in Massachusets federal court earlier this year; yesterday the judge said he'll rule in two weeks on whether to dismiss it.