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/PRNewswire/ -- NASA has selected a new Earth science mission that will study the behavior of tropical storms and thunderstorms, including their impacts on...

/PRNewswire/ -- "The Leadership Program for Girls is the result of five years of development," co-founders Lisa Cenca of Harvard Graduate School of Education...

showcasing some of Harvard’s stellar graduates. Before enrolling at the Graduate School of Design (GSD), Ayaka Yamashita had earned degrees in agro-informatics and global health, founded a nonprofit in Southeast Asia, published a book, and been named a Fulbright Scholar as well as “an upcoming Japanese woman contributing to the 21st century.” Born deaf in one ear, she had faced disparities in communicating with other students and teachers as a child; from a young age, she grew sensitive ...

Date Time University of Toronto startup helps local restaurants cope with COVID-19 A new app developed by University of Toronto students and alumni is helping match potential customers with local, independently owned restaurants. PickEasy, a restaurant matching app developed by Max Woo and Daniel Zhao, technical co-founder Cho Yin Yong, and mentor Mahmoud Halat, offers digital services to independently owned restaurants in Scarborough. The startup’s goal is to help smaller restaurants navigat...

Apple is shutting down its Joint Venture program on February 22, 2021. The company is recommending customers sign up for AppleCare Help Desk Support instead. As reported by 9to5Mac, Apple appears to be shutting down its Joint Venture program designed to provide certain IT support and other functions to small and mid-size businesses. Apple has begun sending out emails to members of the program, notifying them that the Joint Venture Program will end on February 22, 2021. The Joint Venture Program...

The district will create its own project-based learning program A student walks past an entrance next to the 11/12 school office at the new South Commons and entrance at Linn-Mar High School in Marion, Iowa, home Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette) Superintendent Shannon Bisgard is photographed Aug. 9, 2018, at the Linn-Mar Learning Resource Center in Cedar Rapids. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette) Trace Pickering, executive director of Iowa BIG, gives the keynote address Sept. ...

I remember feeling tense on the day of my HBS interview. Not only because I was nervous about the interview—although I was—but because if I was admitted, I was unsure whether I belonged at HBS. I am a Midwestern, first-generation college graduate from a blue-collar family. It didn’t matter that I spent six years living in New York and Switzerland and that I built my career in public accounting and finance. Harvard—and the Ivy League for that matter—always felt like a place for other ...