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Faced with tight budgets and political pressure, the United States and many other countries are missing on a chance to invest in transportation, economists said Wednesday.

Federal financial aid may soon be available to DREAMers due to an amendment to the proposed Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act, S 744.

Michael Sandel is a political philosopher and a professor at Harvard University.

President Barack Obama today named Deloitte LLP Chief Executive Officer Joe Echevarria, a Walt Disney Co.

May 21, 2013 - The Harvard Library and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University are pleased to announce the appointment of Peter Suber as director of the Office for Scholarly Communication , starting July 1, 2013.

Reuters Pictures The Center for American Progress, Washington's leading liberal think tank, has been a big backer of the Energy Department's $25 billion loan guarantee program for renewable energy projects.

EdX, the $60M online learning partnership founded last year by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has added 15 schools, more than doubling its membership at a stroke.

Let's say you are living in the moment, feeling giddy - a little tipsy, maybe - and you decide to go for it.

In the idealistic educational strategy that Salman Khan spelled out Monday evening to an enthralled audience at the University of New Orleans , students learn at their own pace from the thousands of YouTube videos his enterprise has turned out for a worldwide audience on everything from art history to organic chemistry to differential calculus.

You probably feel pretty attached to your memories -- they're yours, after all. They define who you are and where you came from, your accomplishments and failures, your likes and dislikes.

I received an awesome opportunity at San Juan College to participate in a summer research project at Harvard University, which is extremely beneficial in moving me toward my career goals.

A tiny device that can recharge cell phone batteries in as little as 30 seconds won 18-year-old Eesha Khare a major science award that will help fund her college education at Harvard University.

A tiny device that can recharge cell phone batteries in as little as 30 seconds won 18-year-old Eesha Khare a major science award that will help fund her college education at Harvard University.

"Not every kid's going to be as lucky as I was," says Mariano-Florentino "Tino" Cuellar, whose work ethic and smarts propelled him from a mediocre high school on California's border with Mexico to Harvard University, Yale University and an endowed professorship at Stanford Law School.

Kurtz is a 1979 Manchester alumni and is internationally recognized for her ground-breaking research in super-efficient solar cells for powering homes, businesses, satellites and the Mars rovers.

Agang leader Mamphela Ramphele has announced two high-profile additions to her staff - veteran journalist Thabo Leshilo and Absa banking executive Nkosinathi Solomon.

Ask current Harvard Law School students where Class of '91 alumnus Barack Obama, lived during his three-year stint there, and most will blurt out "Somerville" without skipping a beat.

The US-India Business Council has invited Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav to be the guest of honour at its 38th Anniversary Leadership Summit in Washington DC on July 11.

Gwinnett County Public Schools has announced the 2013 valedictorian and salutatorian for Mill Creek High School .

New Hampshire is among some forty states to adopt this more rigorous set of standards for math and language arts in public schools.