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Three Harvard affiliates were named recipients of the 2009 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow yesterday. Professor of Applied Mathematics Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan, Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences Peter J. Huybers, and Rebecca D. Onie ’98-’97, co-founder and CEO of Project HEALTH will be awarded a $500,000 grant, which can be used for any purpose. “The award is an extraordinary opportunity: it gives us a forum to talk about [public health] at time when the health care debate is really heating...
...preparation company may seem a bit exclusive at first glance. After all, its stated hiring policy is to “only select tutors who have either graduated from or are currently attending an Ivy League school or institution of equal quality.” But founders Chris L. McConnell ’08 and Jae R. Gardner ’07 were determined to assist students lacking financial and academic resources when they created the company in January of 2009. The company has a for-profit private tutoring program that funds their philanthropic endeavor, Climbing Ivy, dedicated to serving...
...supporters partly consisted of religious and poorer individuals, in addition to the more well-off protesters from north Tehran. One witness spoke of seeing an elderly chador-clad woman holding a large green banner prominently adorned with a picture of Ayatullah Khomeini - a sign that the Islamic Republic's founder is used as propaganda by supporters of both sides of Iran's post-election conflict. (See pictures of the long shadow of Ayatullah Khomeini...
...term congressman represents the 8th Congressional District of Massachusetts, which is comprised of Cambridge, Somerville, Boston, and Chelsea. He joins the race against fellow democrats Attorney General Martha Coakley, Boston Representative Stephen F. Lynch, Boston Celtics owner Stephen G. Pagliuca, and City Year co-founder Alan Khazei...
...this movie—which you’ve blandly titled The Social Network—is going to be a big hit. After all, you got Aaron Sorkin to write it. Insiders are apparently raving about it. You’re talking to Justin Timberlake about playing Napster founder Sean Parker. But we at FlyBy just got a hold of the script, and frankly…well, we’ll tell you what we thought after the jump...