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Judge Dismisses Assault Charges Against Harvard Grad Students Involved in Clash at Oct. 2023 Protest

A Boston Municipal Court judge on Friday dismissed the assault and battery charges in a case against two Harvard graduate students who were charged following an altercation at a pro-Palestine protest ...
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Taking Back Harvard: Addressing Our Sexual Assault Culture Means Reckoning With History

Stella Lei ’26 is a Comparative Literature concentrator in Eliot House. Jessica Wang ’26 is an English concentrator in Eliot House. They are organizers with the Harvard Feminist Coalition, formerly ...
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Back in the Classroom, Claudine Gay Will Ask Harvard Students to Rethink Harvard

More than two years after her resignation, former Harvard President Claudine Gay will return to teaching — beginning with a course that asks students to scrutinize the very institution that shaped, ...
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Duke Senior’s Commencement Speech Appears to Plagiarize 2014 Address by Harvard Student

Duke University’s 2022 undergraduate commencement speaker, Priya Parkash, told her classmates to pursue their own individual “revolutions” at the school’s graduation ceremony on Sunday, reflecting on ...
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Billionaire and Convicted Sex Offender Jeffrey Epstein Boasts Deep, Longstanding Ties to Harvard

Convicted sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein is not a Harvard alum. Nor is he a faculty member or an affiliate of the University. In fact, he does not even hold a college degree. But the billionaire — ...
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Black and Hispanic Enrollment Drops, Asian Enrollment Rises for Harvard’s Class of 2029

Harvard’s acceptance rate rose this year to 4.18 percent from 3.65 percent, the highest since the Class of 2024 was admitted in 2020. The change was driven largely by a decrease in the number of ...
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Harvard Launches ‘Impact Labs’ To Fund Social Scientists Who Partner With Outside Organizations

Harvard will pilot a program — Harvard Impact Labs — to fund collaboration between social scientists and leaders in the public and private sectors, the University announced Wednesday morning. The ...
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Harvard Raises Wage Offer, Expands Benefits as Grad Student Strike Enters Second Week

Harvard increased its wage offer and proposed a new package of graduate student benefits Tuesday, marking the first major movement at the bargaining table since the Harvard Graduate Students ...
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I Ran The Numbers. There is a 300% Workload Gap Between Some Majors.

Jacob M. Miller ’25, a former Crimson Editorial chair, is a double concentrator in Mathematics and Economics in Lowell House. Harvard faculty — and College Dean Rakesh Khurana — are increasingly ...
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Harvard Lightweights Conclude Season at the Henley Royal Regatta

Earlier this month, the Harvard Lightweights competed across the pond at the Henley Royal Regatta (HRR), an event known for ...
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Jason Furman to Lead Kennedy School's Mossavar-Rahmani Center After Summers’ Resignation

The Harvard Kennedy School announced Thursday that economist Jason Furman ’92 will serve as the next director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, succeeding former Harvard ...
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Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui Endorses Lander’s State Senate Challenge

Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui endorsed Daniel A. Lander ’14 in his challenge against incumbent state Senator William N.