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...Minorities and Women in Science, Engineering and Mathematics, which took place on Saturday. Past Scientists of the Year have included Mae C. Jemison, the first black female astronaut, and Jaime Escalante, a mathematics teacher famous for training and encouraging Latinos in Los Angeles to take and pass the Advanced Placement Calculus exams. Olivera, a professor of biochemistry and neuroscience at the University of Utah, was born and raised in the Philippines, where he attended college. After completing doctoral work at the California Institute of Technology and postdoctoral work at Stanford University, Olivera began doing research on the deadly cone snails...
...Crimson’s placement as a 15-seed was surprising given the team’s abysmal nonconference showing—Harvard went 2-11 before tearing through the Ivy League. Tournament experts projected the Crimson as the lowest-possible 16-seed, which would have given Harvard a matchup with one of the tournament’s four top-ranked teams: North Carolina, Tennessee, Connecticut, or Duke...
...their time at Harvard. Freshmen, sophomores, and juniors who sign up for the study online will receive $50 for writing a 90-minute essay and filling out a brief self-evaluation questionnaire. Each student’s writing sample will then be compared to his or her Expository Writing placement test—the one that all students take at the beginning of freshman year. This design will also allow the the test to illuminate exactly the areas of writing instruction in which Harvard lags behind, providing targeted improvements...
...With expansive tree-lined streets and stately million-dollar homes, Myers Park is one of Charlotte's most desirable addresses. Its superb high school, which offers the International Baccalaureate program and a rich menu of Advanced Placement classes, is a big part of its appeal. The school serves 3,000 students, 66% of them white, 22% black and 4% hispanic. North Carolina designated it a School of Distinction; Lloyd Wimberley, who headed the school from 1996 to 2002, was named North Carolina Principal of the Year in 2002; and the school has consistently ranked in the top 20 on Newsweek...
...named the No. 2 team in arguably the strongest of the four divisions of the 64-team tournament. The first-round game between the Crimson and the Terrapins will take place Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Hartford Civic Center in Hartford, Conn. The team’s placement as a No. 15 seed was a surprise to everyone at Donoghue’s Sports Bar and Restaurant in Watertown, where Harvard players and coaches assembled to watch the Selection Show. The Crimson was projected to be a No. 16 seed, playing against one of the nation?...