Word: boston-area
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Bands from Boston-area colleges faced off in front of a packed crowd Thursday night for a shot at victory in this year’s first intercollegiate Battle of the Bands. Two Harvard groups competed with acts from Berklee College of Music and Northeastern University to win over the audience that filled the upstairs of Tommy Doyle’s in Harvard Square. The Berklee indie group, Fly Upright Kite, came in first place with Harvard’s well-known Major Major tying with Northeastern’s Stolen Records for second. The all-girl Harvard rock band...
...product and input of knowledge at three Boston institutions, Miron says even if he leaves Harvard, he could very well continue teaching and researching at other Boston-area schools...
...women, Wellesley may be the best of both worlds. For five days a week, they are able to focus on their studies and extracurricular activities without worrying about awkward dining hall encounters with past hookups. When they leave campus, these women can pick and choose the elements of the Boston-area college social scene that most appeal to them. For the right kind of student, Wellesley can be a place where one is allowed to define womanhood on her own terms...
...scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital, presented preliminary results last November that showed that the gray matter of 20 men and women who meditated for just 40 minutes a day was thicker than that of people who did not. Unlike in previous studies focusing on Buddhist monks, the subjects were Boston-area workers practicing a Western-style of meditation called mindfulness or insight meditation. "We showed for the first time that you don't have to do it all day for similar results," says Lazar. What's more, her research suggests that meditation may slow the natural thinning of that section...
...Harvard Crimson was destroying the Brandeis Judges in one of the only sports I know for sure our fellow Boston-area college has, I began to think about the lack of luster in writing about the Crimson competing against the Judges. There might not be anything nearly as unexciting as a matchup between those two oddly named teams...