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SEAS

Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Lays Off 25% of HUCTW Staff

Harvard will lay off roughly 25 percent of staff represented by its clerical and technical workers’ union at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and reorganize several offices in response to mounting funding pressures, according to the union.

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Harvard Business School

HBS Professor Kent Bowen Remembered for Academic Achievements, Commitment to Family and Faith

Harvard Business School Professor H. Kent Bowen, who taught at HBS for 15 years before his retirement in 2008, died on July 17 at the age of 83.

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Politics

Hoekstra Says Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences Is ‘On Stronger Footing’ After Cost-Cutting

Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Hopi E. Hoekstra told faculty on Tuesday that the school was “on stronger footing” after taking steps to tighten its budget in the face of an unstable financial climate under the Trump administration.

Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School

HLS Visiting Professor Placed on Leave After Arrest For Firing Pellet Gun Near Brookline Synagogue

A visiting professor at Harvard Law School was placed on administrative leave pending an investigation after allegedly firing a pellet gun outside of a Brookline synagogue on the eve of Yom Kippur.

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English

Harvard Professors May Be Eligible for Payments in $1.5 Billion AI Copyright Settlement

When Harvard English professor Deidre S. Lynch read an article published in The Atlantic, titled “Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database that Meta Used to Train AI”, she learned for the first time that her work was used without consent to train artificial intelligence models.

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Research

Harvard Impact Labs Fund $25,000 Grants for Faculty Public Service

Eight University professors received $25,000 grants as part of their inaugural Harvard Impact Labs fellowships to launch social science projects in collaboration with public and private sector leaders.

Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School

Former Harvard Professor Alleges HBS Officials Deleted Evidence in Tenure Denial Lawsuit

Former Harvard Business School associate professor Benjamin G. Edelman ’02, who sued Harvard in 2023 after he was denied tenure, alleged on Tuesday that the University had failed to preserve evidence in the case.

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Harvard Medical School

Former HMS Professor Sued Over Alleged Malpractice in Gender Surgeries

Former Harvard Medical School professor Curtis L. Cetrulo was sued for medical malpractice in July by two transgender patients who allege their phalloplasties were botched at Massachusetts General Hospital.

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FAS

More Than 60 Percent of Harvard FAS Faculty Identify as Liberal on Survey

Roughly 63 percent of Harvard faculty who responded to The Crimson’s annual survey of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences identify as liberal — continuing a steady decline in the percentage of survey respondents who say their political beliefs lean to the left.

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Labor

University Agrees to Remove Time Caps for Preceptors and Lecturers

Harvard negotiators offered to remove limits on lecturer and preceptor appointments in a contract proposal to the University’s non-tenure-track faculty union on Monday, a major victory for the union.

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FAS

More Than 80 Faculty Pledge 10 Percent of Pay To Support Harvard’s Fight Against Trump

More than 80 Harvard faculty members pledged to donate 10 percent of their salaries for up to a year to support the University in its resistance against the Trump administration’s attempts to exact concessions and freeze billions in federal funding.

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Faculty

Judge Denies Motion To Dismiss AAUP Lawsuit Against Trump Administration Immigration Policies

The Harvard chapter of the American Association of University Professors’s lawsuit against the federal government’s immigration policies will move forward despite the Trump administration’s motion to dismiss, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday.

Harvard Medical School
Research

3 Harvard Professors Win 2025 Breakthrough Prizes

Awarded annually, the Breakthrough Prize, often referred to as the “Oscars of Science,” seeks to “celebrate the wonders of our scientific age.” The foundation doled out $3 million to each winner in the Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics, and Mathematics categories this year.

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FAS

Faculty Senate Planning Body Meets With Peer Schools, Considers Pushing for Corporation Seat

The planning body for a University-wide faculty senate is considering whether faculty should push for representation on the Harvard Corporation, the University’s highest governing body, according to its first progress report released Saturday.

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Harvard Business School

HBS Professor Bharat Anand ’88 Tapped to Lead NYU’s Stern School of Business

Bharat N. Anand ’88, the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning and HBS professor, was named the next Dean of NYU’s Stern School of Business, the school announced on Thursday. He will depart Harvard for the new role in August 2025.

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