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A study published by Cell Press in the May 23 issue of Chemistry & Biology reveals a new genomic approach to screen for compounds that could inhibit tumor growth by causing cancer cells to differentiate, or convert from immature cells to more specialized cell types.

A soft-spoken, virtually unknown mathematician from the University of New Hampshire has found himself overnight a minor celebrity, flooded with requests to give talks at top universities as his work is debated and celebrated online by leaders in his field.

President Obama has failed to live up to his "transformational" image crafted in the 2008 campaign, winning a lukewarm "meh" from influential scholar Joseph S. Nye Jr., former dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

The Cherokee County School District and school board members on Tuesday honored the valedictorians and salutatorians of the class of 2013 during its 13th annual Scholar Recognition Banquet.

The electric dipole moments, shown as arrows, of these two enantiomers of 1,2-propanediol are alike in all but one respect: The dipole moments along the C -axis point in opposite directions.

THE first woman to run Oxford's world-famous Bodleian Libraries in 400 years will leave her position this summer.

Work for the scooter prototype has been going on for months and this month the Kettering group showed it off to faculty and student at Harvard University and MIT.

An associate professor of finance, Bergstresser teaches classes in fixed income securities, corporate financial engineering and venture capital.

He is the grandson of migrant workers, the first in his family to be born in this country, and the first in his family headed to college.

This is a gallery of tiny 'nanoflowers' grown on the surface of pennies and glass by engineers at Harvard University.

Ed Kearns did not travel much when he was younger. He grew up in Syracuse, New York, and in 1978 moved to Cambridge to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , then Harvard University.

Brian Krzanich is either having a really good month or a really bad month, depending on how career success is defined.

The same cannot be said for the more than 1,200 Harvard students and 23 campus groups smearing Richwine's work as "racist" and petitioning Harvard to repudiate it .

A trio of Harvard University seniors - Scott Crouch, Florian Mayr, and Matthew Polega - have received the Harvard University President's Challenge for social entrepreneurship award.

Faced with tight budgets and political pressure, the United States and many other countries are missing on a chance to invest in transportation, economists said Wednesday.

Federal financial aid may soon be available to DREAMers due to an amendment to the proposed Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act, S 744.

Michael Sandel is a political philosopher and a professor at Harvard University.

President Barack Obama today named Deloitte LLP Chief Executive Officer Joe Echevarria, a Walt Disney Co.

May 21, 2013 - The Harvard Library and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University are pleased to announce the appointment of Peter Suber as director of the Office for Scholarly Communication , starting July 1, 2013.

Reuters Pictures The Center for American Progress, Washington's leading liberal think tank, has been a big backer of the Energy Department's $25 billion loan guarantee program for renewable energy projects.