Harvard

Harvard grad student workers end 40-day strike without a contract

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Local news The Union will return to the negotiating table on June 9 and 23. Members of the Harvard Graduate Student Union picket at a doorway next to the Engineering Sciences Laboratory on Oxford Street. John Tolomacki/The Boston Globe After 40 days of picketing, Harvard graduate students on Monday ended their longest strike yet without … Read more

Harvard ‘Senior Sunrise’ cut short by cops

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Local news Police cleared Harvard’s annual Big Sunrise gathering at Weeks Footbridge on Friday, citing crowd concerns. A crowd of Harvard graduates celebrated their annual sunrise ceremony on Weeks Footbridge on Friday morning after police cleared the area. Pictures from the accident scene, subscriber by NBC Boston, showed a large crowd of students gathered on … Read more

Larry Summers will resign from teaching at Harvard during review of Epstein ties, university says

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Former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers will resign from teaching at Harvard University amid a campus review of his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, Harvard University announced Wednesday. Summers, who has been on leave since November and whose name appears hundreds of times in newly released Epstein files, will leave at the end of the academic … Read more

Judge blocks Trump’s $2.2 billion Harvard funding freeze

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On Wednesday, a federal judge suspended the Trump administration’s attempt to examine $ 2.2 billion in Harvard’s research financing. In a matter of 84 pages, the American boycott judge, Alison Buruz, concluded that the Trump administration “used anti -Semitism as a smoke” to illegally prevent billions of dollars in financing research. Judge Buroz wrote in … Read more

Harvard thought it had a cheap copy of the Magna Carta. It turned out to be extremely rare

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Harvard University has assumed for decades that it has a cheap version of Magna Carta in its collection, a stained and miserable document that she bought for less than $ 30. But researchers concluded that they have something more valuable – a rare copy of 1300 issued by King Edward Edward, British The original Magna … Read more

Trump administration says Harvard will receive no new grants until it meets White House demands

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Washington – Harvard University will not receive any new federal scholarships to meet a series of demands from the administration of President Donald Trump, the Ministry of Education announced on Monday. This procedure was placed in a message to Harvard President and a major escalation of Trump’s battle with Ivy Legue School. The administration has … Read more