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...Nobel prize in 1997 for his work cooling atoms with laser lights. He was confirmed for his cabinet post by the U.S. Senate in January. Chu had previously served as a head of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and as a professor at Stanford and Berkeley The Harvard Alumni Association chooses the speaker. —Check TheCrimson.com for updates throughout...
Colleges of all stripes are taking a battering as endowments evaporate and the alumni-donation well dries up. But when it comes to actually getting its class in the door, Skidmore, which allowed TIME to observe scholarship discussions and review admissions and financial-aid applications less than two weeks before the school mailed its final decisions, typifies the unique dilemmas that face smallish private colleges. Schools with deep pockets are coping: seven of the eight Ivy League universities, for instance, notched application increases this spring, three of them in double-digit percentages. The same goes for state schools and community...
...We’re struggling [with alumni], but we’re trying to figure out who played,” said Stevens, whose team has an alumni network with a thirty-year hole in it. “Hopefully in the future we’ll start contacting alumni and drawing in some funds...
President Barack Obama and Ronald S. Sullivan—the newly selected Master of Winthrop House—first met on the basketball court, long before they were both high-profile Harvard Law School alumni. During Sullivan’s first year as a law student, Obama was a 3L. And though the 44th president had already made history at that point by becoming the first black editor of the Harvard Law Review in 1990, the two didn’t get to know each other in a professional setting.“We played intramural basketball games, sometimes...
...race in the Navy Women’s Intersectional in Annapolis.The co-ed team passed up on the St. Mary’s Team Race Intersectional in St. Mary’s City and instead stayed close to home to compete in practice team racing against some very talented alumni on the Charles River.The Harvard women stood up admirably to the challenge of being the sole Crimson representative on the water, however, as they took home a fourth-place team finish in a field of sixteen teams from up and down the East Coast.“We were happy...