A Yale football player who said he withdrew from consideration for a Rhodes Scholarship in order to prepare for his team’s rivalry game against Harvard had in fact been informed his candidacy had been suspended, The New York Times reported.

President Barack Obama will nominate Harvard economist Jeremy Stein and Jerome Powell, an investment banker and former Treasury official, to the two empty seats on the Federal Reserve’s policy-setting board of governors.

A 30-year-old woman was killed and two others injured Saturday morning as they were tailgating before the Harvard-Yale game in New Haven, Conn., when a moving truck hit them, police have said.

Richard Cordray, the former Ohio attorney general now named to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau , may turn out to be the banks’ worst nightmare, Cramer said Monday. Cordray was named to the top job by President Obama after months of speculation that Harvard Law professor Elizabeth …

President Obama shouldn’t have backed down. In announcing Monday that he’s nominating former Ohio Atty. Gen.

A new method for making genomewide changes to organisms could lead to better ways of producing useful new drugs and chemicals.

How can we get the average patient to take charge of their health? Self-quantification can shed real insights into how lifestyle affects health, says Joseph Kvedar, a physician and founding director of the Center for Connected Health at Harvard Medical School. The challenge will be in getting patients to adopt these tools

Letters by a teenage Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis to her Harvard boyfriend in the late 1940s show the future first lady writing about adolescent love, kissing, and her loathing of attending a finishing school.

Tommy Amaker will remain the Harvard coach.

University of Miami officials flew to Boston on Monday to meet with Harvard’s Tommy Amaker in an attempt to woo the Crimson coach to the ACC school, multiple sources told ESPN.com.