"Former Harvard student Adam Wheeler
was indicted [yesterday] on multiple counts of identity fraud and larceny. According to the
Boston Globe, Wheeler allegedly built a 'fraudulent life history that led to his admission to Harvard, and for using forged academic materials from Harvard when he applied for the prestigious Rhodes and Fulbright scholarships.'"
* In his transfer student application to Harvard "...Wheeler claimed he got a perfect score on the SAT, straight A's at prestigious prep school Phillips Academy Andover and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...In reality, he had never attended either school..."
* He
has plead not guilty to the charges.
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posted by ericb
on May 18, 2010 -
164 comments
Academic Earth collects lectures on a wide variety of
subjects from
UC Berkely,
Harvard,
MIT,
Princeton,
Stanford and
Yale that the universities have
released under Creative Commons. The site is
still in beta so it doesn't quite have the thousands of lectures its frontpage promises. It has many full courses, for example Benjamin Polak teaching
game theory, Amy Hungerford on
the American novel since 1945, Charles Bailyn's
introduction to astrophysics, John Merriman on the history of
France since 1871, Shelly Kagan on
death and Oussama Khatib's
introduction to robotics.
posted by Kattullus
on Feb 4, 2009 -
10 comments
