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...lead DePauw. Victor A. DeCarlo, chair of the DePauw Physics and Astronomy Department, said that Casey should strive “toward the diversification of the student body begun by our current president,” “I would also like to see the university commit more scholarship money toward attracting talented science students,” he said. Casey, who will be DePauw’s 19th president, joined Harvard in 2006 after serving in multiple administrative roles at Brown. He holds a law degree from Stanford—where he was a member of the Stanford...
...obstacles.Having set the Harvard women’s pole vaulting record last year at the Heptagonal Championships by clearing 12 feet, six inches, the Leverett House senior is looking forward to her next big challenge: Oxford.Named one of the 2008 recipients of the highly competitive and highly coveted Rhodes Scholarship in November, the Brookline, Mass. native will be joining the ranks of the Oxford Blues following her graduation this June.“I first heard about it and thought about applying at the beginning of last summer,” Blattler reminisced. “Everybody gets these emails...
...board. In 2006, Stanford announced that families earning less than $45,000 would be exempt from paying tuition. The new initiative also eliminates the need for student loans by lowering the typical student contribution from $6,100 to $4,500, which students can cover with work-study or outside scholarships. Under the program, the average family contribution for students receiving financial aid in 2008 will fall 16 percent. The initiative will go into effect for the upcoming academic year. The maximum contribution by families earning between $60,000 and $100,000 will be $15,683 for both student contribution...
Sunstein, who graduated from the Law School, has published over 15 books and is highly regarded for his scholarship in fields including constitutional, administrative, and environmental...
...motion before the FAS in support of open access to scholarly articles concerns openness in general. It is meant to promote the free communication of knowledge. By retaining rights for the widest possible dissemination of the faculty’s work, it would make scholarship by members of the FAS freely accessible everywhere in the world, and it would reinforce a new effort by Harvard to share its intellectual wealth. The University Library has taken a leading role in that endeavor. Far from reserving its resources for the privileged few, it is digitizing its special collections, opening them to everyone...