Word: centered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...labor activist and first-year law student Marissa A. Vahlsing, the school has already initiated de facto staff cuts, asking subcontractors to cut their expenses, which has resulted in job losses and the summer closure of a cafe in the basement of Harkness Commons, the Law School student center. Student labor activists present at a brief private meeting with Jackson last week said that the acting Dean was unaware of the impending cafe closure and criticized the lack of transparency in the decision making process regarding layoffs. Student activists have recently disputed the notion that the University?...
...years past had received the Stride Rite Post-Graduate Fellowship—a prize that comes with $25,000—only one student received the award. Katherine A. Carroll ’09, who was awarded the fellowship, will continue her work as a coordinator at a youth center in Dorchester after graduation. In addition, Alyssa M. Aguilera ’08-’09 and Valonda J. Harris ’09 received the Stride Rite Senior Recognition Prize, a cash award given to students who have demonstrated consistent contributions to public service in their undergraduate careers...
Despite high-profile College initiatives in recent years to construct these campus-wide social spaces—including the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub and the Student Organization Center at Hilles—there remains a dearth of such venues that aim to accommodate large-scale extracurricular and social events...
Researchers at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have found mathematical evidence that suggests that wandering black holes may be present at the periphery of our galaxy. The study will give scientists clues to the early history of the galaxy and will also increase the understanding of galactic evolution. “It helps with figuring out how our galaxy was assembled,” said Abraham Loeb, a professor of astronomy. “It will tell us whether early galaxies had black holes at their center.” According to Loeb and graduate student Ryan...
...Since the 1980s, at least, the center of Sri Lankan politics has been dominated by Sinhalese Buddhists. Tamil Hindus and Muslims have often gotten the short end of the stick with regard to education, discriminatory language policies, and pogroms and political gerrymandering in their traditional homeland...