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Harvard Law School will be moving to a pass-fail grading system in the fall of 2009, joining peer institutions such as Yale and Stanford, Dean Elena Kagan announced in an e-mail to students this afternoon...
...from previous years, it led a slew of universities with large endowments that managed to stay ahead of downward spiraling market prices. Yale announced late last week that its endowment rose 4.5 percent during the 2008 fiscal year—ending the year with $22.9 billion—and Stanford announced a 6.2 percent growth in its investments, leaving its total endowment relatively unchanged at $17.2 billion, after expenditures. Officials at Harvard’s neighbor, MIT, said yesterday that it had managed a 3.2 percent return over the past year. Its endowment now totals $10.1 billion. The largest higher...
...awarded, has not changed, two thirds of universities surveyed over the past two years have improved their grades. In the 2008 report, there were only three Overall College Sustainabilty Leaders (a grade of A-) in addition to Harvard. But this year, an additional 11 schools, including Stanford, Brown, and Columbia, joined the ranks. Yale remained slightly below with a B+ overall...
...blood or hospitals.” Kolbe turned down a spot on the US team for the 2004 Athens Paralympics so she could start her first year at Harvard, and she ended up concentrating in Health Care Policy, a special concentration. Kolbe is currently deferring her freshman year at Stanford Law School and looking for a job as a research assistant. Kolbe hasn’t ruled out the possiblity of competing in the 2012 Paralympics in London. The careers of a Paralympic swimmer can fairly long, Kolbe noted, and Ewald, the Paralympic coach, said there have been three-time...
...find this both interesting and disturbing.' HENRY T. GREELY, Stanford Law bioethicist, after an Indian court convicted a suspect on the basis of evidence from a brain scan--a first...