In federal court here on Monday, Catherine Ho described mochi, a sweet Japanese rice cake. Ho, co-president of the Harvard Asian American Women’s Association, explained how the organization recently ...

This staff editorial solely represents the majority view of The Crimson Editorial Board. Over the past ten years, the Harvard Statistics Department’s efforts to promote gender inclusivity have ...

None of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit claiming Harvard discriminates against Asian-Americans applicants are testifying, so their main argument in federal court is boiling down to data. A group called ...

Application data took center stage in the Harvard admissions trial Thursday and Duke economist Peter Arcidiacono was on the witness stand all day, walking the court through how he calculated the ...

For 58 years after its establishment, Harvard’s Statistics Department — known for being a small, scholarly community of a few dozen researchers sequestered on the seventh floor of the Science Center — ...

Just over forty years ago the Supreme Court struck down race-based quotas in school admissions while also upholding the core tenets of affirmative action. In the landmark 1978 decision, Regents of the ...

Wednesday night at the Boston chapter meeting of the American Statistical Association, Harvard statistics professor Carl Morris will not be discussing new graphical methods in health-care modeling or ...

In recent years, Harvard College has played a leadership role among colleges and universities to attract a diverse array of students, including those eligible for Pell Grants (“Elite Colleges Fail to ...

Does Harvard discriminate against Asian-Americans? That was the central question at the heart of the closely-watched federal court case that ended Friday in Boston. A group called Students for Fair ...

A HARVARD statistics whiz, who predicted all the 2012 Oscar winners, has given his tips for Sunday’s awards based on maths — and there are a few shocks. Mr Zauzmer, who has a 75 per cent success rate ...