(6) Arizona Hammers (14) Harvard to Advance to Sweet 16
Streeter Lecka/Getty Images(SALT LAKE CITY) — Mark Lyons scored 27 as he helped lead Arizona to a 74-51 victory over Harvard Saturday.
The Wildcats (27-7) never trailed in the game starting the game on a 30-9 run.
Senior forward Solomon Hill had 13 p…
Harvard Clinches Second-Straight NCAA Tournament Bid
Joe Robbins/Getty Images(CAMBRIDGE, Mass.) — Junior guard Laurent Rivard scored 17 points and freshman guard Siyani Chambers contributed 16 as Harvard (19-9, 11-3 Ivy) defeated Cornell (13-18, 5-9 Ivy) 65-56 on Saturday. Later in the day, Brown …
Harvard Defeats Princeton, 69-57 To Win Second Straight
Joe Robbins/Getty Images(BOSTON) — Sophomores forward Steve Moundou-Missi and center Kenyatta Smith scored 14 points each as Harvard (15-7) defeated Princeton (12-9), 69-57 on Saturday night.Junior guard Laurent Rivard added 12 points, while freshman …
Harvard Approves Campus Kinky Sex Club
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(BOSTON) — Fifty Shades of Grey has hit the Ivy League as Harvard University, home to some of the nation’s top scholars, sanctioned a student bondage and kinky sex club on campus Friday, according to The Crimson.“Harv…
Re-Living Election 2012: Campaign Comes Full Circle At Harvard
JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images(BOSTON) — It’s been just over three weeks since Election Day 2012, but to many it already feels like an eternity.President Obama’s victory over Republican challenger Mitt Romney quickly gave way to an unfolding…
Harvard Researchers Use Cell Phones for Tracking Malaria
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(BOSTON) — There’s a new weapon in the war against malaria — the cell phone.Harvard researchers found they could track the spread of malaria in Kenya using phone calls and text messages from 15 million mobile phones.&ldquo…
Parents Sue Consultant for $2M After Sons Don’t Get into Harvard
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — A couple in Hong Kong is suing a Boston-area education consultant for the $2 million they say they paid him to get their two sons into top prep schools and, ultimately, an Ivy League university. The suit is seen by s…
Harvard Students Accused of Cheating on Final Exam
Hemera/Thinkstock(CAMBRIDGE, Mass.) — Administrators at Harvard College have accused 125 students of cheating on a final exam last spring.
Officials at the prestigious university in Cambridge, Mass., said Thursday that they had found at least 125 stud…
Donated Brains Damaged in Harvard Freezer
Tom Landers/The Boston Globe via Getty Images(BELMONT, Mass.) — A freezer failure at the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center damaged one-third of the world’s largest donated brain collection for autism research.A total of 93 donated brains were…
Abandoned Teen Graduates from Homeless Custodian to Harvard University
Stockbyte/Thinkstock(CLEVELAND COUNTY, N.C.) — After returning from a prestigious academic summer program in Raleigh, N.C., last summer, Dawn Loggins found her parents had left. To complete her high school senior year, she began “couch-surfing” in fri…
Harvard Business School Student Goes Missing in Maine
Portland Police Department(PORTLAND, Maine) — Police in Portland, Maine, are searching for a Harvard Business School student who has been missing since early Sunday morning after spending Saturday night in the Old Port area of town, ABC News affiliate…
Article Cites Elizabeth Warren As First Woman of Color Hired by Harvard Law School
Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — A 1997 piece from the Fordham Law Review lists Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren as the “first woman of color” hired by Harvard Law School, according to reports.The article…
NASA, Air Force and Harvard Computers Hacked by ‘The Unknowns’
NASA(WASHINGTON) — A previously unknown hackers‘ group calling themselves “The Unknowns” has compromised websites and obtained documents from NASA, the U.S. Air Force, the French Ministry of Defense, the European Space Agency, the Ba…
Jon Huntsman Describes Mitt Romney’s ‘Trust Deficit’
Darren McCollester/Getty Images(BOSTON) — Jon Huntsman sounded more like an independent candidate for president (which he is not) than somebody who has endorsed Mitt Romney (which he has) in a speech Thursday at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government….