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...Harvard still has not announced a divestiture from the Russian oil firm Tatneft, despite that fact that other schools—including Amherst, Stanford, and the University of California—have cut ties to Tatneft to protest that company’s links to the Khartoum regime. In its most recent filing with federal regulators on Feb. 9, Harvard revealed that it owned 134,050 shares in Sinopec, also known as the China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation. Those shares were worth a total of $8.3 million on the New York Stock Exchange at noon today. Since Sept...
...While Stanford is often dubbed the “Harvard of the West,” and Duke the “Harvard of the South,” New York University (NYU) may be fast becoming the “Harvard of the East.” In a new survey released earlier this week, NYU ranked as the top “dream school” of college applicants, ahead of Harvard, which ranked second. According to the 3,890 college applicants queried by Princeton Review—a New York-based education services company?...
...Until now, the scientific community had thought that one form of immune cells, “helper T cells,” were behind the respiratory ailment. But a new study, designed by Havard immunologist Dale T. Umetsu and executed by Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Omid Akbari along with Stanford researcher John Faul, has implicated a different type of immune cell, “natural killer T” (NKT) cells. The discovery has prompted talk of a new wave of treatment methods for asthma sufferers, targeting the NKT cells that appear to lie behind the disease...
Amherst, Brown, Dartmouth, Stanford, and Yale have also moved to divest from Sudan...
Sometime after that, an old friend of mine called. He said, "There's this guy I know from Stanford. He was chief operating officer of something called PayPal, which was sold to eBay for $1.4 billion. Now he wants to get into moviemaking and wants to make Thank You for Smoking." I told him my absolute rule is to accept phone calls from people worth $1.4 billion who want to make my novels into movies...