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How The Harvard Law Library Is Embracing The 21st Century
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A catalog entry sparks the imagination: On March 6, 1935, Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor who sited Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt and Jefferson on Mount Rushmore, was in Washington, D.C., casting wet plaster over the...
Did Harvard Discover The Genetic Fountain of Youth?
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[caption id="attachment_5554" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Photograph: Robert F. Bukaty/AP"][/caption] If you ever wondered what some of the benefits of education are, look no further than the highly-edu...
Harvard’s Must-Have Guide To Social Media
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If you're trying to explain what social media is, how it influences the world, or simply want to see a spectacular prezi presentation, look no further. Nicholas Lamphere of the @HarvardSocial (as seen on Edudemic m...
How to Win in the Modern Game of Law School Admissions
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[box type="info"]This is the second article in a special series by Darrell Bennett Jr. for Edudemic. Check out Darrell’s video blog here. His first article can be found here.[/box] Get your mind right Dean of Ad...
How Social Media Can Help Your First Day Of School – Part 1
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Going back to school, for both teachers and students, can be a nerve-wracking and difficult process. Students probably don't know one another. Teachers don't know the students. Everyone is just looking to carve out th...
CTRL+ALT+EDUCATE
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Your college experience may be a thing of the past. Scratch that. It already is a thing of the past. That's because the typical college experience many of us know will soon be replaced with online lectures. This is ac...
The EdTech Canon: 7 Must-Have Resources For Users, Producers, and Teachers
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Studying Web culture and learning, I feel like I'm on the cusp of something big, and futuristic and important. It's like the space race of the 1950s, only instead of looking to outer space, celestial bodies, and dist...
Facebook In 2004: The Harvard Crimson’s First Article
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In honor of Facebook welcoming its 500 millionth user today, we thought it would be fun to see how the Harvard Crimson, the university's leading newspaper, portrayed TheFacebook during its infancy. It's well-known tha...
No More Final Exams At Harvard: Is Your School Next?
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According to Harvard Magazine, final exams are "going the way of the dodo." Last spring, a mere 23 percent of the school's 1,137 undergraduate courses gave exams, the magazine reports. And a new faculty vote dicta...
8 Books Harvard Professors Recommend You Read This Summer
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While most high school students are assigned a list of books to read over the summer, undergraduates aren't required to do much at all during the summer months. Just in case you've been using the excuse of "But I d...
Why It Pays To Earn A Higher Degree [INFOGRAPHIC]
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It's no secret that school is hard. It takes a lot of time, effort, and sacrifices. But does it pay off? An infographic based on statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics says...it does. As you can see from the ...
TODAY: Harvard To Show Off Cutting-Edge Digital Scholarship Efforts At Summit
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Harvard has been hard at work on implementing some big ideas when it comes to integrating technology into scholarship. On June 9, there is a big event being held at Harvard Business School where dozens of panelists an...
You’ll Never Guess Which School Has The Most Fulbright Scholars
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It might be time to make room for another school in the Ivy League. There's a school that is boasting more Fulbright Scholarships per capita than Harvard, Stanford, or Yale. That school is called the New College of F...
10 Reasons Adam Wheeler's Harvard Hoax Will Become A Movie
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You've likely heard about Adam Wheeler's exploits with Harvard, MIT, Bowdoin, Yale, and Philips Andover. The 23-year-old is being charged with dozens of counts of fraud after he was allegedly found to have falsified ...
How The Harvard Hoax Affects Higher Ed And Social Media
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After Harvard grifter Adam Wheeler plead not guilty in court yesterday, The Today Show went to the school's Cambridge campus to gauge student reaction. Read more about the back story about Wheeler here. As Mike Tai...
Former Harvard Student Arrested: Faked His Grades, Application, Everything.
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A former Harvard student is being accused of faking his grades, letters of recommendation, and pretty much every part of his academic history. 23-year-old Adam Wheeler is due in court tomorrow to be arraigned on multi...
