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...Crimson had made history with an upset of No. 1 seed Stanford in 1998, the only No. 16 seed to ever topple a top squad at the NCAA Tournament...
Despite hailing from the Bay Area, I rejected popular hometown options such as Stanford, Cal, and Santa Clara, opting instead for the greener pastures of College Park, Md. Though I had to suffer through years of Duke’s domination, it was worth the wait...
After beginning the season 1-10, the Crimson rallied to run off a 13-1 record in Ivy League play and earn an NCAA berth for the first time since 2003. Although Harvard was unable to replicate its miracle upset over Stanford as a No. 16 seed in 1998 yesterday, the big-game experience gained by squad’s young core could play dividends in the near future...
...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 that live in the Southeast Asian island. His research, which now includes many more types of cone snails, has led to a better understanding of the nervous system and the development of new commercial drugs, such as potent painkillers that are administered...
...Harvard women’s basketball team stunned the nation in one of the greatest moments in collegiate sports when, playing at Stanford’s Maples Pavilion, the Crimson entered collegiate history by defeating number-one seed Stanford in the first round of the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament. ESPN recently earmarked the accomplishment as sixth in its top 25 greatest moments in NCAA Tournament history. The Crimson’s 71-67 victory marks the only instance, in either men’s or women’s tournament history, that a sixteenth seed...