Tag: U.K.

  • Nation & World

    New Marshall scholars gaze ahead

    Four Harvard seniors, among the students selected this week as Marshall scholars, ponder their future. Their scholarships pay for two years of advanced study at a college or university of their choice in the United Kingdom.

    8 minutes
    Vaibhav Mohanty, Lyndon Hanrahan, Justin Lee, Manuel Medrano.
  • Nation & World

    Rhodes and Marshall scholars

    At this time of year, most Harvard seniors are worrying about job interviews or graduate school applications, but not Dhruva Bhat and Julius Bright Ross. The two seniors will spend the next two years studying in the United Kingdom, Bhat as a Rhodes Scholar and Ross as a Marshall Scholar.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Samuel H. Beer, Harvard scholar, dies at 97

    Samuel Hutchison Beer, the distinguished Harvard political scientist, died in his sleep at the age of 97 on April 7. For years, Beer was the world’s leading expert in British politics, but he also studied the American political system, and was active in American politics as a lifelong Democrat and chairman of Americans for Democratic…

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Vivid images, stern warnings mark Ice Age ‘rock’ star’s talk

    Oohs and ahhs greeted slide after slide as English author and freelance scholar Paul G. Bahn presented “The Shock of the Old: New Discoveries in Ice Age Art” at the Yenching Institute Feb 26.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    U.K. anti-poverty strategy working, almost

    In May 1997, Britain’s Labor Party won an election that ended nearly two decades of Conservative Party rule. The new liberal government, promising radical reform, took over a booming economy. But it also inherited an increase in poverty that had been rising steeply since the 1970s.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Four students win Marshall Scholarships

    Four Harvard undergraduates have received the prestigious Marshall Scholarships, academic grants that will allow them to study abroad for two years. Sponsored by the British government, the scholarships offer exceptional students from the United States the opportunity for graduate-level study at any university in the United Kingdom in a field of their choosing. In addition…

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Three from Harvard receive American Rhodes Scholarships

    Two Harvard College students and a Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) doctoral student have received Rhodes Scholarships. Thirty-two Americans were chosen from among 800 applicants for the scholarships to the University of Oxford in England.

    5 minutes