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In the United States, Massachusetts District Judge Richard Stearns rules that Harvard University must face a lawsuit accusing the university of intentionally ignoring requests for safety from Jewish students following "severe and pervasive harassment" on campus, while also calling the university's claims that antisemitic acts are protected under the First Amendment "dubious".
2024-08-6

Harvard University removes the binding of human skin from the 19th-century book "Des destinées de l'âme" by Arsène Houssaye, which has been kept in its library since 1934.
2024-03-29

Claudine Gay resigns as president of Harvard University following controversial remarks she made during a congressional hearing on antisemitism and accusations of plagiarism.
2024-01-2

The U.S. Department of Education launches an investigation into Harvard and Yale for allegedly accepting billions of dollars in undisclosed gifts from numerous foreign governments, including those from Saudi Arabia, China, and Russia.
2020-02-12

A U.S. district judge in Boston, Massachusetts, upholds Harvard University's admissions process following a challenge from a group of Asian American applicants who believe the school discriminated against them.
2019-10-1

Harvard announces that they will not renew law professor Ronald S. Sullivan Jr.'s appointment as dean of Winthrop House after he joined the defense of Harvey Weinstein. He remains a regular professor.
2019-05-11

Preventive medicine researchers from Harvard University and Northwestern University conduct a study on long-term (13 years; 793 people) pre-cancer changes (mostly leukemia, prostate cancer, lung cancers, and skin cancers) in telomeres, the protective ends of DNA. Some said, in previous short-look studies, that focused mostly on their known role in the pace of regular aging, that they either got shorter or longer. There was a 3-4 year period of accelerated aging, and then it halted a few years before cancer was diagnosed.
2015-05-3

Scientists from New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Swarm Lab announce that they have created robotic ants that behave very similarly to real ants.
2013-03-29

Harvard University investigates a widespread cheating allegation on a take-home test in one of its undergraduate classes last spring.
2012-08-31

Harvard University welcomes the United States Reserve Officer Training Corps program back on campus following the lifting of the bans on gays in the military.
2011-03-3