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Tag: University of Texas
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Nation & World
Harvard argues admissions suit isn’t worthy of Supreme Court review
Citing 40 years of legal precedent and two lower court rulings in Harvard’s favor, Harvard on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to deny the request by Students for Fair Admissions that it review the College’s whole-person admissions practices and revisit decades of case law allowing the consideration of race as one factor among many…
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Nation & World
Affirming whole-person admissions
Universities may continue to consider racial and ethnic backgrounds in evaluating their applicants for admission, Supreme Court rules.
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Nation & World
An issue that’s bigger in Texas
During an Askwith Forum discussion on college affirmative action, highlighted by the pending Supreme Court case of Fisher v. University of Texas, the speakers said that any decision should include as its backdrop a sense of that Southern state’s history.
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Nation & World
Taking a stand on diversity
After the Supreme Court announced it will hear a major case on affirmative action in October, Harvard joined 13 other universities to file a friend-of-the-court brief supporting considerations of race in college admissions.
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Nation & World
Cancer clues from another species
Researchers have decoded the genome of an unlikely ally in the fight against cancer and aging, the naked mole rat, to find clues on why it resists the disease and lives 10 times as long as ordinary mice.
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Nation & World
Breaking the sonnet barrier
Poet and fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Anna Maria Hong takes the traditional sonnet form and breaks it wide open in her new volume of poetry.
