US President Donald Trump’s adviser on science and technology Jonathan Garber said Harvard University is based on research and not on political views. “It hurts Harvard but it hurts the country because research funding is not a gift and is awarded by the federal government,” he added. Harvard has been criticised over antisemitism on campus and its assertion that Harvard lacks political “viewpoint diversity”.
Learn more →Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust has said the US government’s ban on international students at the university “reinforces the troubling entitlement mentality that is endemic in our nation’s most prestigious universities and colleges”. The federal government had banned Harvard from recruiting international students in the US last week over its compliance with the law. It also said Harvard doesn’t comply with civil rights laws.
Learn more →Harvard University on Friday said that the US government has revoked its ability to enrol international students. This comes after Harvard sued the Trump administration for revoking its ability to enrol international students. Harvard said that the administration sought to prevent the school from enroling thousands of international students. The university added that international students contribute $43.8 billion to the US economy.
Learn more →Harvard University’s athletic programme will not be allowed to take international student visas under a Trump administration decision made on Thursday. This comes after the US revoked Harvard’s ability to enrol international students revoked its SEVIS status. Students have an impossible situation due toHarvard’s revocation of its SEVIS status, the suit claims.
Learn more →The University of Maryland’s class of 2025 received their diplomas on Thursday, with the school’s commencement speaker being ‘The Frog’ inventor and environmental activist Maurice Sendak. In his speech to the graduates, Sendak urged them to not jump over one another and said, “Get what you want, not jump over someone to get it, because life is better when we leap together.”
Learn more →Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Clarence Thomas on Wednesday argued that leaving a religious school in a charter school programme amounts to discrimination against religious adherents and their constitutional right to the free exercise of religion. The Oklahoma Supreme Court had said it would put the school at odds with Supreme Court decisions that prevent religious prayer and instruction in public education.
Learn more →The US government has imposed a freeze on $22 billion in multi-year grants to Harvard University after it rejected demands that it change the hiring, admissions and other policies on anti-Semitism on its campus. Harvard said it has taken steps to address the issue. In March, the government had announced an investigation into 60 universities for allegedly failing to protect Jewish students.
Learn more →A student at US’ Columbia University, Mahmoud Khalil, who participated in last year’s pro-Palestinian protests on campus was arrested by immigration officials on Saturday. Trump said that Khalil’s arrest is “the first of many to come” of students “who have engaged in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity”. This comes after Trump signed executive order in January, which cites a federal law authorizing the deportation of any foreign national.
Learn more →A recent Nature report found that over the last decade, the proportion of published articles in a year that have been retracted has trebled. The report was provided with the data from three technology firms, as well as countries and journals associated with retracted articles. Over the years, the number of retracted articles by the firms is more than the Retraction Watch data set they build on.
Learn more →Researchers at US’ Washington University have used cancer-derived mitochondria to “reverse cancer-related cell death.” The mitochondria in cancerous tumors were less able to divide and more likely to commit cell’suicide’, the team showed in cellular models. In mice with cancer, cancerous TILs that had imbibed alien mitochondria showed signs of T cell exhaustion, the loss of cancer-killing potential.
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