The term "Ivy League" is informally used to describe eight East Coast universities—Brown, Cornell, Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale—which are acknowledged as among the most...

A small number of elite college and universities in America are known by this phrase. It is both a laudatory and divisive term—laudatory because of the academic achievement of many of its students, divisive because they are more easily entered by...

The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education located in the Northeastern United States. The term is now most commonly used to refer to those eight schools considered as a group.[1] The term has...

Ruth Simmons says she once wrote the best essay in her literature class only to have one of her Harvard University professors shun her because she was black, or a woman, or both.More than three decades after that graduate school indignity, Simmons returned to the...

A University of Pennsylvania professor was charged Monday with bludgeoning his wife to death in their suburban kitchen after she told friends she was going to divorce him.Rafael Robb, 56, taught economics at the Ivy League school and is an expert in game theory, the...

In a battle of Ivy League unbeatens, Harvard and quarterback Chris Pizzotti wasted little time turning the 124th meeting of The Game into The Rout on Saturday.Pizzotti had three of his career-high four touchdown passes in the first half to lead the Crimson (8-2, 7-0)...

A good exposé is irresistible, especially if it reveals the ugly side of something pretty and bursts some bubbles in the process. See The Devil Wears Prada, in which the glitzy world of fashion journalism is stripped of its glamour, or VH1’s Behind the Music,...