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HMS Researcher Denies Lying To Border Patrol Officials

Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard Medical School researcher detained by Customs and Border Patrol officials in February, denied lying to authorities about the contents of her luggage in a Thursday statement.

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From Lab to Startup: Harvard’s Office of Technology Development Paves the Way for Research Commercialization

With their research in hand, they approached Harvard’s Office of Technology Development to license their invention for commercial use. Four years later, Schaefer and Feldhaus not only secured a patent, but also launched start-up company Rarefied Technologies to commercialize their invention.

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Initiative to Digitize Records of Slave Trade Will Move to Harvard

A nearly six-decades old initiative to digitize records of the trans-Atlantic and intra-American slave trades is moving to Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, the University announced earlier this month.

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Harvard Outsourced Its Slavery Research. Then a Former Employee Began Notifying Descendants — Without Its Knowledge.

After Harvard outsourced efforts to identify the people enslaved by University affiliates and their descendants, the work has continued elsewhere, led by nonprofits, universities — and a rogue researcher.

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American Ancestors Takes Over Harvard Descendant Research After Layoffs

Since January, the genealogical nonprofit American Ancestors has led the effort to identify the descendants of people enslaved by Harvard faculty, staff, and leadership — taking over the project entirely after the University laid off its internal research team.

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Harvard Built the Biotech Industry in Cambridge, Then Let It Go. Now It Wants Back In.

Over the decades, Kendall Square has become a hub of biotech innovation and a popular location for up and coming life sciences firms. Now, a Harvard-backed Allston is entering the Cambridge biotech scene.

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Harvard Spends Record Amount on Lobbying in First Quarter of 2025 As It Fends Off Federal Threats

Harvard spent $230,000 on federal lobbying in the first quarter of 2025 — its highest quarterly total since George W. Bush’s presidency — as the University tries to fortify itself against attacks from Congress and the White House.

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Garber Joins More Than 180 University Leaders in Statement Against ‘Political Interference’ With Higher Ed

Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 signed a statement denouncing “unprecedented government overreach and political interference” in higher education on Tuesday.

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Judge Allison Burroughs Will Oversee Harvard’s Federal Funding Lawsuit. It’s Not Her First Harvard Assignment.

Massachusetts District Court Judge Allison D. Burroughs, a Barack Obama appointee who ruled to uphold Harvard’s race-conscious admissions policies in 2019,  will oversee the lawsuit Harvard brought on Monday against the Trump administration’s federal funding freeze.

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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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Harvard Salata Institute Announces 8 New Seed Grants for Climate Research

The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability has awarded grants to eight new climate research projects working on “understudied and emerging topics in climate and sustainability,” the Institute announced on Tuesday.

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HSPH Asks Labs To Describe Funding Streams As It Braces for Financial Troubles

The Harvard School of Public Health is asking all research labs to describe their funding streams to determine how to allocate “scarce internal resources” in the wake of the Trump administration’s multibillion dollar cut to federal grants and contracts.

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Harvard Staff Union Urges University To Draw on Unrestricted Funds to Support Research

The executive board of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers called on the University to draw on its unrestricted endowment funds to sustain campus research amid funding cuts in an open letter to Harvard affiliates on Monday.

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Three Harvard Faculty Members Win Guggenheim Fellowship

Three Harvard faculty members were among the 198 recipients of the 100th class of Guggenheim fellows selected from almost 3,500 applicants, the Guggenheim Foundation announced on Tuesday.

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Trump To Cut Another $1 Billion From Harvard Health Research Funding, Wall Street Journal Reports

The Trump administration plans to slash another $1 billion in federal grants and contracts for health research to Harvard, on top of an existing $2.2 billion cut, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.

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