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Quest for Admission to Harvard Ends in $2 Million Tangle

The Boston Globe | 10.7.2012

Catching Up With Raj Chetty

The New York Times | 10.6.2012

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Harvard's Raj Chetty and Benjamin Warf Win 2012 MacArthur Grants and Raj Chetty and colleagues release controversial “value-added” education study and Raj Chetty: Good kindergarten teachers boost pupils' lifetime earnings

Harvard RoboBees Learn to Steer, Mostly

ieee spectrum | 10.7.2012

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Tinker, Tailor, Robot, Fly

Obama’s Old Harvard Friends React to the Debate

The New Yorker | 10.4.2012

Harvard Professor at UI: Affirmative Action Necessary for Colleges

The Daily Iowan | 10.4.2012

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Harvard Files Amicus Brief in University of Texas Supreme Court Diversity Case

HSPH Study: Coffee Associated With Glaucoma

The Atlantic | 10.4.2012

Drug Shows Promise in Treating a Type of Muscular Dystrophy in Boys

The New York Times | 10.2.2012

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Louis Kunkel’s 30-year quest to diagnose and cure muscular dystrophy

Bizarre Species of Miniature Dinosaur Identified

The New York Times | 10.3.2012

Body Language Can be Great Equalizer for Women, Harvard Prof Says

MSN News | 10.3.2012

Facebook Tops 1 Billion Active Users

The New York Times | 10.3.2012

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard and MIT and An Intimate Look at Zuckerberg and Other High-Tech Figures