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The U.S. stopped scheduling visa interviews for foreign students
Harvard University President Larry Garber said in an interview, “I believe…we’ve made substantial progress on campus over the past year.” He added, “That’s what I’ve heard from many faculty and staff and students. I’d demand they learn a little more about Harvard, as well as other research universities.” Garber further said that Harvard “doesn’t have…
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The president of Harvard says they should stand firm
Harvard University has denied US President Donald Trump’s claims that the university “blatantly” refused to provide information about international students. “It hurts us because after all, the research funding is not a gift,” said Harvard University’s President Brad Garber. “We perform…at the behest of the government. The money that goes to research universities in the…
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Harvard’s president thinks they should stand firm as Trump targets them
Harvard University President Alan Garber has said it’s “not possible” to stop antisemitism on campus, while adding that the US government is “attempting to frighten students with fear”. “We have no way to stop this,” he further said. The administration froze more than $2 billion in research grants and contracts in April and tried to…
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Harvard’s president says they should stand firm while Trump targets elite schools
The University of Hong Kong (HKU) is offering international students dedicated scholarships, accommodation assistance and guidance on transferring academic credit, according to a letter addressed to them by Zhigang Suo, a Materials Engineer at Harvard University. “Sure, it hurts Harvard, but it hurts the country because after all, the research funding is not a gift,”…
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Harvard lost its ability to enroll international students
Harvard University has revoked its ability to enrol international students after US Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) investigation into whether the university mishandled claims of visa fraud. Harvard said it’s committed to finding a solution to ensure international students aren’t denied admission or prevented from attending class because of the probe. The university added that…
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Harvard was trying to enroll international students when Trump tried to ban them
Harvard University has been declared ineligible for international student visas after the US revoked its access to the student and exchange visitor information system (SEVIS). On Thursday, the Department of Homeland Security revoked the university’s access to the SEVIS, a government database of international students attending universities in the US. The Trump administration has sought…
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Harvard’s ability to enroll international students was revoked
Harvard University’s 42 varsity athletics teams, of which 196 out of 919 athletes have international hometowns, are the most in the US. Notably, 21% of the players on the school’s rosters for the 2024-25 seasons, or 196 out of 919 athletes, have international hometowns. The US revoked Harvard’s ability to enroll international students after it…
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Higher ed war is heating up as Trump threatens Harvard’s tax-exempt status
Reacting to Harvard University’s rejection of the Trump administration’s demands, US President Donald Trump said Harvard should lose its tax-exempt status and be taxed as a political entity if it “keepspushing political, ideological, and terrorist inspired/supporting ‘Sickness?'” Trump added, “The fight against…Marxist assault on our country, our universities, and our country.”
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Trump is threatening Harvard’s tax-exempt status
Harvard University has filed a lawsuit in the US Supreme Court against the US government over its demands for changes in its hiring, admissions and other policies. “While some of the demands outlined by the government are aimed at combating antisemitism, the majority represent direct governmental regulations of the ‘intellectual conditions’ at Harvard,” it said.
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The Trump administration has frozen more than $2.2 billion after Harvard rejected its demands
Harvard University has rejected a request from US President Donald Trump’s administration to make changes in its policies and eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion programs. In a letter, Harvard’s lawyers said that the requests were in violation of the university’s First Amendment rights and exceeded legal limits of the government’s authority to enforce civil rights…
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The researchers in the US should break their outrage addiction
Researchers at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government have created a new initiative to help researchers in their training cope with mental-health challenges. The initiative aims to reduce the stigma faced by early-career researchers by improving mental-health literacy, encouraging peer-support networks, and creating structures across the research enterprise to take responsibility for mental health.
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Track the gender ratio in research to keep the institutions accountable
An analysis of the leading universities in the world in 2024 by Nature Index has found that many have not achieved equal research participation by women. In terms of female co-authorship, Harvard University in Boston, US stood out as the university with the largest number of female co-authorship at 38%. The top three countries in…
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Biden received a lot of young voters and they swung toward Trump this year
Young men raised with Donald Trump feel disconnected from modern Democratic Party, according to a Harvard University professor. “It’s part of a trend that has been observed by Della Volpe, where a lot of young men who were raised with Trump feel disconnected from the modern Democratic Party,” Anna Greenberg told The Guardian. “In the…
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This is about more than my mistakes, says the former Harvard President Claudine Gay
Harvard University’s first African-American President Shirley Gay resigned after being accused of plagiarising other people’s work for her PhD. A Harvard professor, Dave Tomar, accused Gay of plagiarising papers for about a decade. The professor claimed Gay used ghostwritten papers from students who attended Harvard in her PhD thesis. Gay became the first Black president…
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Claudine Gay resigned in a letter
Harvard University’s former President Claudine Gay has said that she stepped down as President “to deny demagogues the opportunity to further weaponize my presidency in their campaign to undermine the ideals animatingHarvard since its founding.” Gay had said that she would use every tool at her disposal to protect students from calls for “genocide of…
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The Word did Claudine Gay a disservice
Harvard University’s President Claudine Gay resigned on Monday after an investigation found a pattern of plagiarism in four of her papers. Gay asked for four corrections in two articles to insert citations and quotation marks that weren’t included in original publications, according to an official statement. An investigation conducted by the university’s review committee found…
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Claudine Gay resigned as president of Harvard University
Harvard University President Claudine Gay has resigned amid allegations that she plagiarized parts of some of her published works and in the wake of a controversial appearance before Congress last month. Gay’s resignation follows heightened scrutiny of allegations that she plagiarized parts of some of her published works and in the wake of a controversial…
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Western politics will be shaped by the Israel-Hamas war
The US, Israel’s largest trading partner, gave Israel “gifts of assistance” in the 1970s that are still being given today, an expert said. Stephen Walt from Harvard University’s Kennedy School said that the United States gave Israel “generous” support in the 1970s. Walt also said that Israel has had right-leaning prime ministers for much of…
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The Y chromosome has an effect on cancer risk
Biotech company SanaHeal has won the Spinoff Prize, an award fromNature Research and Merck for early-stage university spin-off companies. SanaHeal was founded in 2014 by Harvard University’s evolutionary biologist Shu Jing and University of Pennsylvania’s computational biologist and genomics professor Charles Ornstein. It will receive $1 million from Nature Research and Merck for its development…
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The founder of the company says that Bakhmut is captured
US President Joe Biden had told Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2016 that he could not have American precision missile systems, the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University stated. The White House thought they could get Russia to use its nuclear weapons, it added. “Putin is not waiting for a misstep…
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There is amolecular syringe that ferries virulence factors into human cells
Researchers from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University claim to have created bioluminescent syringes that can be used to deliver gene-editing therapies into human cells. The syringes are made with a ribonucleic acid, which some viruses and bacteria use to attack their hosts. They then loaded them with Cas9 and toxins that could…
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These doctors do not want patients with disabilities.
Lisa Iezzoni, a professor of medicine at Harvard University, has said that she heard the same story during research with hundreds of people who have disabilities: Health care that was substandard. Protected by anonymity, only first names and nicknames were used. Iezzoni added that groups of eight to 10 doctors began talking. The US National…
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Half- Earth Day is not a celebration according to an opinion.
The “Half-Earth Project” is a global movement by the late biologist and Harvard University professor, E.O Wilson, to tackle the issue of global biodiversity loss. The project involves indigenous communities, who’ve traditionally balanced human needs with nature, to work together towards a durable plan for our future. Wilson had coined the term “half Earth” to…
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Daily briefings: The Great Depression shaped people.
Scientists at Oxford University and Harvard University claim to have built the world’s first computer-based supercomputer. The supercomputer is capable of analysing terabytes of data a day, the equivalent of around 1024 gigabytes of data a year by 2030, according to researchers. The researchers said it could be used to help map areas of the…
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Thank You, President XI Jinping.
China and the United States are unlikely to have a disagreement over Taiwan in the coming years, Chris Li from the Asia-Pacific Initiative at Harvard University said. China’s strategy toward Taiwan hasn’t fundamentally changed, he added. However, there’s a perception that Beijing is more and more focused on no longer just deterring independence, Li further…