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Harvard Agrees to Give Up Its 175-Year-Old Slave Photos

This move ends a lengthy legal battle

(Newser) - Harvard University will give up what are thought to be the earliest photographs taken of enslaved people in America, ending a yearslong legal battle with a woman who says they feature some of her ancestors. Tamara Lanier has been fighting to obtain the 175-year-old images featuring a man who she...

Trump Yanks $100M in Federal Contracts From Harvard

Admin official calls it 'a complete severance' of the government's business relationship with the school

(Newser) - The Trump administration isn't done punishing Harvard. After cutting billions of dollars in federal funding, the federal government is now set to cancel all remaining contracts with the university, worth about $100 million, per CNN and the New York Times . In a Tuesday letter, the General Services Administration will...

Trump Threatens to Give Trade Schools Harvard's Grants
Trump Issues
New Threat to Harvard
May 26, 2025 3:07 PM CDT

Trump Issues New Threat to Harvard

He says grants could go to trade schools instead

(Newser) - President Trump on Monday escalated his war on Harvard, threatening to redirect $3 billion in grants for scientific and engineering research from the university to trade schools. The president posted on Truth Social that he's considering taking the grants away "from a very antisemitic Harvard" and giving them...

Future Queen Is Among Harvard Students in Limbo

Princess Elisabeth will spend the summer in Belgium waiting to see how Trump policy unfolds

(Newser) - The future queen of Belgium is among the thousands of international students whose lives could be upended by the Trump administration's feud with Harvard University. Princess Elisabeth, 23, is pursuing a master's degree in public policy at Harvard but it's not clear whether she will be able...

Judge Swiftly Grants Harvard's Request

Federal judge issues temporary restraining order against block on international students

(Newser) - Harvard University's request for a temporary restraining order against the Trump administration's block on international students was granted by a federal judge in Boston less than two hours after the university filed a lawsuit Friday morning. US District Judge Alison Burroughs said Harvard had shown that the Department...

Harvard Returns Fire Over Latest White House Move

School files lawsuit over Trump administration's decision to bar foreign students there

(Newser) - Harvard has responded to the latest salvo from the Trump administration —with another lawsuit. The university sued on Friday, a day after the White House announced the school could no longer enroll international students, reports the New York Times .
  • "We condemn this unlawful and unwarranted action," wrote
...

Trump Order Could Decimate Harvard Rosters

Review found 21% of school athletes listed an international hometown

(Newser) - Harvard's sports teams would take a major hit under a Trump administration decision announced on Thursday that would make the Ivy League school with the nation's largest athletic program ineligible for international student visas. Sportico reported last month that 21% of the players on the school's rosters...

White House to Harvard: Foreign Students Must Go

DHS bars school from enrolling and keeping international students

(Newser) - The Trump administration's fight with Harvard escalated in a big way on Thursday:
  • The White House revoked the school's ability to have foreign students enrolled, reports the Washington Post . Not only is the school forbidden from enrolling new international students, those already there must transfer or face losing
...

Scientists May Have Found a New Way to Halt Malaria

Bed nets coated with drugs that 'cure' mosquitoes may help stop disease in its tracks

(Newser) - What if, instead of killing mosquitoes to stop malaria, we simply cured them? Harvard scientists believe giving mosquitoes anti-malarial drugs could turn these notorious disease-carriers into harmless biters. Malaria, a parasitic disease spread by female mosquitoes, causes nearly 600,000 deaths annually, most of them children, and traditional prevention...

DOJ: Scientist's Texts on Frog Embryos Did Her In

Russian-born Harvard researcher accused of sneaking lab samples through Boston airport

(Newser) - A Harvard University researcher is set to be transferred from a Louisiana detention center to Massachusetts after a federal judge's ruling on Thursday. Kseniia Petrova, said to be 30 or 31 and born in Russia, has been detained since February and faces a charge of smuggling goods into...

Administration Has New Line of Attack Against Harvard

Use of False Claims Act for fraud investigation is 'highly unusual'

(Newser) - The Trump administration has opened up a new line of attack against America's oldest university. The New York Times reports that the Justice Department notified Harvard University this week that it is using the False Claims Act to investigate whether its admissions process has been used to swindle the...

Harvard's $28 Magna Carta Turns Out to Be a Treasure

Worth millions, it's one of 7 known copies issued by Britain's King Edward I in 1300

(Newser) - Harvard thought it had a cheap copy of the Magna Carta—until two historians discovered it's actually a rare, centuries-old version, possibly worth millions. Now, the university is rethinking its place in the story of one of history's most influential documents, per the AP . The Magna Carta,...

She's Researching Aging. ICE Has Her Behind Bars

Russian scientist Kseniia Petrova writes for the New York Times from a Louisiana detention center

(Newser) - When Kseniia Petrova fled Russia two years ago, she did so because she didn't feel she could freely and safely carry out her work as a scientist there, especially after she was arrested for taking part in a protest. She landed at Harvard Medical School, and her work on...

Feds Announce More Harvard Funding Cuts

Another $450M in grants is being cut over what feds call a 'dark problem on Harvard's campus'

(Newser) - The Trump administration has cut another $450 million in grants to Harvard University, on top of $2.2 billion in funding the administration froze last month . The administration accused the university of failing to act on antisemitism and racial discrimination against white people, the Harvard Crimson reports. "Harvard's...

No Future Grants, Either, Administration Tells Harvard
Trump Makes
Harvard Freeze Total
May 5, 2025 7:23 PM CDT

Trump Makes Harvard Freeze Total

McMahon tells university it won't receive grants in the future, either, unless demands are met

(Newser) - Education Secretary Linda McMahon informed Harvard on Monday that the university will receive no new federal grants until it meets the Trump administration's demands. The administration already froze $2.2 billion in federal research grants, and President Trump said he wants to pull the school's tax-exempt status . "...

Trump: We're Pulling Harvard's Tax-Exempt Status

Expect a big legal fight to ensue

(Newser) - The fight between the Trump administration and Harvard escalated yet again on Friday, with the president promising a big move in a Truth Social post : "We are going to be taking away Harvard's Tax Exempt Status. It's what they deserve!" Trump has floated the idea previously,...

Harvard Makes a Big DEI Change
Harvard Makes
a Big DEI Change
Apr 29, 2025 4:24 PM CDT

Harvard Makes a Big DEI Change

Diversity office has been renamed Community and Campus Life

(Newser) - Harvard University is fighting the Trump administration in court —but it has also made some changes that appear to go some way toward meeting the administration's demands. In what CNN calls a "symbolic bow" to the White House, the university's Office for Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and...

In Academia, Top Schools Unite in Private Against Trump

Wall Street Journal reports on 'collective' made up top leaders at colleges and universities

(Newser) - Colleges and universities appear to be digging in against demands from the Trump administration—as evidenced by Harvard—and the most powerful resistance might be one evolving in private. The Wall Street Journal reports that leaders at some of the most prestigious schools have formed what the newspaper calls a...

Harvard Sues Trump Administration
Harvard Sues
Trump Administration
Apr 21, 2025 7:30 PM CDT

Harvard Sues Trump Administration

Lawsuit says government hasn't shown any connection between antisemitism and scientific research

(Newser) - Harvard sued the Trump administration on Monday in an effort to keep it from withholding billions of dollars in funding "as leverage to gain control of academic decision making" at the university, the suit says. "Moments ago, we filed a lawsuit to halt the funding freeze because it...

Harvard Turns to Wealthy for Money to Fight Trump

Other alumni who aren't regular donors are responding

(Newser) - Now that Harvard has committed to resisting the Trump administration's attempt to exert control over its policies, the university is looking for the money to bankroll the battle. Harvard's fundraising operation already has contacted some of its biggest givers, the Wall Street Journal reports. And alumni, many of...

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