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Harvard University is the most recent American college to have pro-Palestinian encampments appear on its campus, joining several other schools where students have been arrested this week for protesting Israel’s conflict with Hamas in Gaza. Protesters at Harvard started setting up tents after The Harvard Crimson reported that the university closed yard access…

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) on Monday supported the idea of Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) becoming the next president of Harvard University. Fetterman expressed worries about the school's handling of antisemitism. The position has been empty since January, when former university President Claudine Gay left the role.

Non-tenure faculty at Harvard voted overwhelmingly on Friday to unionize, days after employees at Harvard Law schools joined the same union. The more than workers voted 1094-81 to join the Harvard Academic Workers-United Auto Workers (HAW-UAW) union. “WE’RE TWO FOR TWO!” the union wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. “After HLS clinicians won…

Harvard University’s yearly applications have decreased for the second year in a row due to several controversies at the institution. The institution reported receiving 54,008 applications for the class of 2028 and accepting 1,937 students from this group. In the previous year, there were 56,937 applicants, indicating a 5 percent decrease in 2024. Harvard…

Scientists at MIT and Harvard University teamed up to figure out what would be the simplest 3-D structure capable of collapsing and morphing due to instability. Their inspiration came after the scientists came across a popular toy, spherical in shape and fitted with movable parts and hinges, which allows it to easily dimple in size […]

As any fourth grader will tell you, photosynthesis is (in layman terms), the process through which plants (and bacteria, algae, etc) get the sugars and other organic compounds they need using energy from sunlight. However, during last week’s synthetic biology conference in Boston, a biologist from Harvard took things to a whole new level, presenting […]