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Harvard applications drop for second year in a row after turmoil on campus

Harvard admitted 1,937 students for the class, or 3.6 per cent of applicants, and they're comprised of about 53% women and 47% men

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Harvard University faces new threat of state tax on $51 billion endowment

Harvard, the oldest and richest college in the US, has long been a target for its immense wealth

Billionaires spending a fortune to lure scientists away from universities

Braggadocio from startups is de rigueur, and plenty of ex-academics have started biotechnology firms, hoping to strike it rich on their one big discovery

RBI deputy governor Michael Patra gets another 1-year extension

Patra, a career central banker since 1985, has worked in various positions in the Reserve Bank of India

Jewish students file lawsuit against Harvard for violation of civil rights

Several Jewish students have filed a lawsuit against Harvard University, accusing it of becoming a bastion of rampant anti-Jewish hatred and harassment. The lawsuit filed Wednesday mirrors others filed since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, including against The Art Institute of Chicago, New York University and the University of Pennsylvania. In the Harvard lawsuit, the plaintiffs include members of the Students Against Antisemitism, Inc. They accuse Harvard of violating Jewish students' civil rights and allege that the university tolerated Jewish students being harassed, assaulted and intimidated behavior that has intensified since the Oct. 7 attack. "Mobs of pro-Hamas students and faculty have marched by the hundreds through Harvard's campus, shouting vile antisemitic slogans and calling for death to Jews and Israel," according to the lawsuit. Those mobs have occupied buildings, classrooms, libraries, student lounges, plazas, and study halls, often for days or weeks at a time,

Harvard plagiarism row: Gay defends research, calls it 'ideological battle'

The school's first Black president stepped down after allegations of plagiarism in her work and anger over the university's handling of antisemitism on campus following Hamas's Oct. 7 attack on Israel

Harvard to move past firestorm brought on by Claudine Gay's resignation

Harvard University on Wednesday sought to move beyond the firestorm brought on by the plagiarism allegations, congressional testimony and resignation of Claudine Gay, the school's first Black president, as it seeks a new leader and tries to heal divisions at the elite Ivy League school. The search for a new president will begin "in due course" and will include "broad engagement and consultation with the Harvard community", the Harvard Corporation, the school's 11-member governing board said in statement on Tuesday, adding that it will be driven by "core values of excellence, inclusiveness, and free inquiry and expression". "At a time when strife and division are so prevalent in our nation and our world, embracing and advancing that mission -- in a spirit of common purpose -- has never been more important," leadership said. As it looks for a new president, the corporation also needs to examine its role in Gay's appearance before Congress, according to Khalil Gibran Muhammad, who ...

Harvard Prez Claudine Gay resigns amid backlash over antisemitism testimony

Harvard University President Claudine Gay resigned on Tuesday amid plagiarism accusations and criticism over testimony at a congressional hearing where she was unable to say unequivocally that calls on campus for the genocide of Jews would violate the school's conduct policy. Gay announced her departure, which came just months into her tenure, in a letter to the Harvard community. She and the presidents of MIT and the University of Pennsylvania came under fire last month for their lawyerly answers to a line of questioning from New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, who asked whether calling for the genocide of Jews would violate the colleges' code of conduct. The three presidents had been called before the Republican-led House Committee on Education and the Workforce to answer accusations that universities were failing to protect Jewish students amid rising fears of antisemitism worldwide and fallout from Israel's intensifying war in Gaza, which faces heightened criticism for the mounting ...

India's economy growing but wealth not getting distributed: Rahul Gandhi

India's economy is growing but the wealth is getting concentrated in a few hands and the challenge of unemployment continues, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said in an interaction with some students of Harvard University. The former Congress president on Saturday shared on X a video of the interaction held on December 15, and said, "My advice to all students - True power comes from connecting with people, listening deeply to what they're saying, and being kind to yourself." Asked about India's economic growth in the last 10 years during the interaction, the Congress leader said, "When you talk about economic development you have to ask the question in whose interest is that economic development." "The question to ask is, what is the nature of that growth and who is benefiting from that. Right next to the figure of growth in India, you have the figure of unemployment in India. So India's growing, but the way it's growing is by massively concentrating wealth towards very few people," he

Robert Solow, Nobelist who tied technology to economic growth, dies at 99

Solow's students over his many years at MIT included Mario Draghi, who would go on to lead the European Central Bank and serve as Italy's prime minister

Harvard muzzled disinformation team after $500 mn Zuckerberg donation

A prominent disinformation scholar who left Harvard University in August has accused the school of muzzling her speech and stifling then dismantling her research team as it launched a deep dive in late 2021 into a trove of Facebook files she considers the most important documents in internet history. The actions impacting Joan Donovan's work coincided with a USD500 million donation to Harvard by a foundation run by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan. In a whistleblower disclosure made public Monday, Donovan seeks investigations into inappropriate influence" from Harvard's general counsel, the Massachusetts attorney general's office and the US Department of Education. The CEO of Whisteblower Aid, a legal nonprofit supporting Donovan, called the alleged behavior by Harvard's Kennedy School and its dean a shocking betrayal of academic integrity at the elite school. "Whether Harvard acted at the company's direction or took the initiative on their own to prote

Top US law firms ask Harvard, Yale to take clear stance on antisemitism

Antisemitic incidents have soared since the war began, and the conflict has bitterly divided dozens of campuses, including Harvard University, Stanford University and the University of Pennsylvania

CJI Chandrachud receives Harvard Law School's 'Award for Global Leadership'

The Chief Justice fondly remembered his time at Harvard as an LLM student in 1982-83 and then as an SJD candidate in 1983-1986

After writing an anti-Israel letter, Harvard students are doxed

The letter, posted on social media before the extent of the killings was known, did not include the names of individual students

Can Oxford and Cambridge save Harvard from AI's educational Armageddon

What can be done to avoid a future in which AI institutionalises cheating and robs education of any real content? This question is stirring an anxious debate in the university world

Indian-American economist Raj Chetty awarded top Harvard University prize

Prominent Indian-American economist Raj Chetty has been awarded the coveted George Ledlie Prize for wielding big data to break myths about who achieves the American Dream and the obstacles faced by others. Along with Chetty, Biologist Michael Springer, professor of systems biology at Harvard Medical School, who created a better, faster COVID test system to help deal with the spread of COVID, was also honoured with the coveted Harvard University's George Ledlie Prize. Springer also helped design and operate the new Harvard University Clinical Laboratory (HUCL), which managed testing and samples. Chetty, Professor of Economics at Harvard University is also director of Opportunity Insights, a group of economists based at Harvard who study inequality. Raj's groundbreaking work on economic mobility and his efforts to share this data with policymakers are making the American Dream more accessible to all, said University Provost and Chief Academic Officer Alan M. Garber. Mike and Raj are

Debris on ocean floor could be from alien civilisation: Harvard scientist

Harvard University professor Avi Loeb had launched a dredging project two weeks ago to explore the depths of the Pacific searching for signs of a mysterious object labelled "IM1"

Harvard defends diversity in education after defeat in Supreme Court

Gay, who's currently Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences and will be the school's first Black president, said in a separate message that today is a hard day

South Korea's President Yoon talks of nuclear threat at Harvard visit

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol delivered a speech and took questions at the Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge on Friday where he spoke about the challenges facing his country including the threat of nuclear weapons from neighbouring North Korea. Yoon pointed to a new plan he unveiled with President Joe Biden on Wednesday for intensified nuclear deterrence to counter any North Korean threat. If we were to accept nuclear weapons by North Korea then South Korea may have to possess nuclear weapons," Yoon said during a question-and-answer period after his speech at the Kennedy School. "This is not something we want to see happen. Yoon went on to say that if North Korea were to use nuclear weapons the result is quite obvious." As long as North Korea recognizes nuclear weapons as a means of survival we have to make sure to deter the usage of such weapons so that the Republic of Korea, our neighbouring countries, and the entire global community can be protected, he said through a .