The Latest Breaking News from Harvard University

Gabby Thomas Is Conditioned for a Never-Ending Push to the Finish Line

The record-setting Olympic track star is on a speedy quest to break down barriers and make up for lost time.

Sports Illustrated · May 10, 2022

Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory Appoints Food Industry Veteran Robert Sarlls As CEO

Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory Inc (NASDAQ:RMCF) has appointed Robert J. Sarlls as its next Chief Executive Officer, effective May 9, 2022. Sarlls will also serve on the Board of Directors. Sarlls will succeed Bryan Merryman, who has served as interim President and CEO since November 2021. Sarlls previously served as the President and…

Benzinga · May 6, 2022

Harvard Students Slam Autism Awareness Panel as 'Violently Ableist'

The event was postponed in order to mollify students who said trying to treat autism was "hateful, eugenicist."

Reason · May 5, 2022

High schoolers' extreme college anxiety

The PBS documentary "Try Harder!" chronicles the anxieties of today's high-achieving teens

Salon · May 1, 2022

Heritage is not soft power

Harvard University Professor Joseph Nye coined the term "soft power", or the ability to obtain preferred outcomes by attraction, rather than coercion or payment, in his book Bound To Lead in 1990. However, he has since seen his brainchild, scribbled out on his kitchen table, grow in scope of application…

Bangkok Post · May 1, 2022

Fauci said the pandemic was over in US, then backpedaled. What do experts say?

PHILADELPHIA — Anthony Fauci caused a stir this week when he said on national television that the United States was “out of the pandemic phase.”

The Philadelphia Inquirer · Apr 30, 2022

Pig Model Law

From Judge Wendy Beetlestone (E.D. Pa.)'s opinion in Houser v. Feldman & Temple Univ., decided Thursday, here are the plaintiff's allegations (note, as usual, that they are just the allegations, since this is an opinion on defendant's motion to dismiss): Houser and his laboratory staff ("lab") developed a pig model…

Reason · Apr 30, 2022

Biden’s $1.75 trillion student-debt problem by the numbers

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is considering forgiving at least $10,000 in student loans per borrower, a promise he made on the campaign trail, through executive action.

Tribune News Service · Apr 30, 2022

Paying for Harvard just got cheaper with decades-high inflation

Parents paying the full cost of Ivy League tuition bills are getting a little relief — and they can thank inflation.

Tribune News Service · Apr 30, 2022

Harvard report brings joy, grief for descendants of enslaved

In Harvard’s pledge to atone for its ties to slavery, it identified dozens of people who were enslaved by the university’s first leaders and faculty members

The Independent UK · Apr 28, 2022