If the pursuit of a COVID-19 vaccine were a horse race, a company in San Diego is either the Seabiscuit or darkhorse candidate to win. With a newly acquired $173 million dollars from Wall Street after a public stock offering, Arcturus Therapeutics Holdings Inc. just gained some solid footing in the race....
3 Economists Who Study Poverty Win Nobel Prize
STOCKHOLM — Two researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a third from Harvard University won the 2019 Nobel Prize in economics on Monday for groundbreaking research into what works and what doesn't in the fight to reduce global poverty. The award went to MIT's Abhijit Banerjee and Esther...
US Turns Away Palestinian Harvard Freshman
BOSTON — A Palestinian student trying to start classes at Harvard University was denied entry to the U.S. in a case that critics of the Trump administration call emblematic of overly invasive screening at border checkpoints. Ismail Ajjawi, who had been living in Lebanon, was refused entry into the U.S....
US Turns Away Palestinian Harvard Freshman
BOSTON — A Palestinian student trying to start classes at Harvard University was denied entry to the U.S. in a case that critics of the Trump administration call emblematic of overly invasive screening at border checkpoints. Ismail Ajjawi, who had been living in Lebanon, was refused entry into the U.S....
US Turns Away Palestinian Harvard Freshman
BOSTON — A Palestinian student trying to start classes at Harvard University was denied entry to the U.S. in a case that critics of the Trump administration call emblematic of overly invasive screening at border checkpoints. Ismail Ajjawi, who had been living in Lebanon, was refused entry into the U.S....
Rhodes Scholar Class Features Plenty of Women, Immigrants
BOSTON — The latest crop of U.S. Rhodes scholars has more women than any other single class, and almost half of this year's recipients of the prestigious scholarship to Oxford University in England are either immigrants or first-generation Americans, the Rhodes Trust announced Sunday. Among the 32 winners is Harvard University senior...