Related article: St Petersburg State University took out first place in that particular competition, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University took second. Teams from St Petersburg won the previous two years, also.
I don't get why Harvard gets to be in the title, why a Harvard link was chosen for the story when they came third. The winner of the competition should be the story.
intuitively, i would have thought that the most well-endowed university in the world finishing third wouldn't be bigger news than another university finishing first. but what do i know?
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/st-petersburg-state-...