White-bread lovers, beware: An analysis of two large studies suggests that those who opt to eat whole grains live longer and are less likely to die of heart disease. The finding comes after earlier research had also linked whole grains to a decreased risk of type 2 diabetes, the news service noted.
A father of a former Harvard University student is facing 20 years in prison for falsifying his income so that his daughter could be awarded over $160,000 in financial aid from the college and the federal government.
A lawsuit filed Monday by Asian students rejected from Harvard University is attacking the school's affirmative action policies, stating that Asians often with higher grade-point averages and test scores than black and Hispanic students who get in are not accepted.
Harvard University is taking public criticism from faculty and students for photographing about 2,000 undergraduates in lecture halls last spring without permission as part of a study. The experiment was focused on classroom attendance and recorded in 10 lecture halls.
Cancer-killing stem cells engineered at Harvard Stem cell research offers yet another breakthrough with the latest success of an engineered cancer-killing cell, according to the BBC.
Recently, Dario Guerrero, a junior at Harvard University, revealed that he was given a full scholarship to the prestigious school after he told them he was an undocumented immigrant.
On March 17, astrophysicists announced they had discovered evidence of gravity waves left over from the time of the supposed big bang, which was believed in the scientific community to be confirmation of the big bang theory's cosmic inflation.
A bomb threat at Harvard University has caused the campus to evacuate, and for final exams to be cancelled, on the campus of the prestigious, Boston-based Ivy League school.
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is among six recipients of this year's W.E.B. DuBois Award, Harvard University's highest honor in the field of African and African-American studies.
