Harvard

Mel Musto/Bloomberg via Getty Images (BOSTON) — Harvard University “failed its Jewish students” and must face a lawsuit over antisemitism on campus following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack against Israel, a federal judge in Boston ruled. Judge Richard Stearns said Jewish students plausibly claimed Harvard had been indifferent to their fears of walking through the […]

Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe/Getty Images (CAMBRIDGE, M.A.) — Harvard University announced that it will no longer be speaking out on political or social issues that don’t impact the institution’s “core function,” after months of unrest on college campuses amid the Israel-Hamas war. The move follows guidance and recommendations from the Institutional Voice Working Group, which […]

Erica Denhoff/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images (BOSTON) — Harvard University officials are denouncing a cartoon deemed antisemitic after it was posted and then deleted on social media by a student group collective. The infographic from the student groups Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee and the African American Resistance Organization was intended to explain similarities between […]

Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Embattled Harvard University President Claudine Gay has resigned, she announced on Tuesday. “It is with a heavy heart but a deep love for Harvard that I write to share that I will be stepping down as president,” she said in a lengthy letter to the school community. “This is […]

Dr. Claudine Gay, president of Harvard University, testifies before the House Education and Workforce Committee at the Rayburn House Office Building on Dec. 05, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Embattled Harvard President Claudine Gay cleared a hurdle to keeping her job after the Harvard Corporation board issued a statement unanimously […]

Erica Denhoff/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Harvard University and the New York City Department of Education are now being investigated for complaints of antisemitism and Islamophobic discrimination on campus, joining seven other schools and districts following the growing protests and tensions over the Israel-Hamas war. These investigations have been opened under Title […]

Sergi Reboredo/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images (BOSTON) — Five people, including a former Harvard Medical School morgue manager, face federal charges after allegedly conspiring to steal and sell body parts from cadavers donated to the institution. A federal grand jury indicted Cedric Lodge, 55, of Goffstown, New Hampshire, who managed the morgue for the […]

EasyBuy4u/Getty Images (CAMBRIDGE, Mass.) — Four Harvard University students were awakened by armed officers in their dorm rooms after a fake 911 call about a person with a “gun threatening violence” sent officers searching for the risk, according to students and public police logs. “Things like that typically don’t end well for people who look like […]