Akash Maharaj, a transfer student at Yale University, will face charges of larceny and forgery after the university discovered that much of the information on his application to Yale had been fabricated, according to The New York Times. Maharaj had falsely claimed that he had received straight A's from Columbia in his application to transfer to Yale. Maharaj had attended Columbia, but did not have a 4.0 grade point average. Maharaj attended New York University before Columbia and St. John's College before NYU. Yale had offered Maharaj a $32,000 scholarship in addition to $15,000 he received from federal loans and scholarships, according to an affidavit from Yale.
James Moriarty '75 was sworn in as ambassador-designate of the United States to Bangladesh on March 26 and will arrive in Dhaka, the capital city, on April 10. A career foreign service officer, Moriarty formerly served as U.S. ambassador to Nepal from 2004 to 2007 and as special assistant to the president of the United States of America and senior director at the National Security Council from 2002 to 2004, among other positions. Moriarty, who graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth, has won numerous awards for his previous service, including the American Foreign Service Association's Rivkin Award for his approach to the break-up of the former Yugoslavia and individual State Department superior honor awards for his work in China in 2000 and Yugoslavia in 1993.
Virginia governor Timothy Kaine signed over 24 bills on Wednesday that aim to improve security on the state's public university campuses, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported Thursday. The bills also seek to facilitate communication between mental-health professionals working at universities and state agencies. The new laws will allow colleges to request student records, including mental-health reports, from any other school the student attended. The legislation was formed in response to the shootings that killed 33 people on the Virginia Tech campus on April 16, 2007.
