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Kurtz is a 1979 Manchester alumni and is internationally recognized for her ground-breaking research in super-efficient solar cells for powering homes, businesses, satellites and the Mars rovers.

Agang leader Mamphela Ramphele has announced two high-profile additions to her staff - veteran journalist Thabo Leshilo and Absa banking executive Nkosinathi Solomon.

Ask current Harvard Law School students where Class of '91 alumnus Barack Obama, lived during his three-year stint there, and most will blurt out "Somerville" without skipping a beat.

The US-India Business Council has invited Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav to be the guest of honour at its 38th Anniversary Leadership Summit in Washington DC on July 11.

Gwinnett County Public Schools has announced the 2013 valedictorian and salutatorian for Mill Creek High School .

New Hampshire is among some forty states to adopt this more rigorous set of standards for math and language arts in public schools.

Gia Wolff, Brooklyn-based architect, wins $100,000 travel grant for her proposal Floating City: The Community-Based Architecture of Parade Floats Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean of Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, is pleased to announce that Gia Wolff, an architect based in Brooklyn, New York, is the winner of the inaugural Wheelwright Prize, ... (more)

"The State of Equality and Justice in America" is a 20-part series of columns written by an all star list of contributors to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

You probably feel pretty attached to your memories -- they're yours, after all. They define who you are and where you came from, your accomplishments and failures, your likes and dislikes.

By all accounts, today's college campuses grow more intolerant by the day. We move closer to the old Soviet Empire, where political dissidents risked the gulag for even joking about Marxism.

Picture this for a second. One person, one vote. Yes, every enfranchised man or woman is entitled to one vote each.

Ignat Kaneff, founder of Kaneff Group of Cos., says he believes that higher education is more important than ever for young Canadians.

Cydney Richardson, who is into science and math and wants to go into biomedical engineering, poses at Rich South High School in Richton Park, IL, on Tuesday, March 19, 2012.

Harvard University owns companies around the world and is a controlling stakeholder-that is, a majority shareholder, majority owner, or full owner-of over 100 companies.

"Spring is like a perhaps hand," wrote the poet E. E. Cummings: "carefully / moving a perhaps / fraction of flower here placing / an inch of air there... / without breaking anything." With the hand of nature trained on a beaker of chemical fluid, the most delicate flower structures have been formed in a Harvard University laboratory-and not at the ... (more)

Sun.Star editor Nini Cabaero will spend one school year at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to study journalism innovations as a member of the 76th Nieman Class.

Jane Mendillo, president and CEO of Harvard Management Co., received a 52% increase in compensation in 2011, based on a disclosure from Harvard University on Wednesday.

Wolters Kluwer Health , a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that its clinical decision support resource, UpToDate A partnership between Wolters Kluwer Health and the Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard University, the UpToDate Global Health Initiative provides clinicians ... (more)

Harvard University undergraduates who aspire to be attorneys will have a head start on admission to that law school across the way at starting in 2015.

A flower fit for a Lilliputian maiden, this microscopic "rose" was grown in a laboratory at Harvard University using a solution of chemicals and minerals .