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Harvard has agreed to rename itself Trump University in a bid to keep the $ 9 billion federal grants that Trump threatened to withdraw.
#harvard #aprilfools
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The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that it was reviewing $9 billion in federal contracts and grants awarded to Harvard University. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/01/world/harvard-federal-funds-us-review/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #harvard #us #republicans #donaldtrump #universities #censorship #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hamas
The Japan Times · Harvard at risk of losing $9 billion in federal funds amid U.S. review
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“This administration has proven that we will take swift action to hold institutions accountable if they allow *antisemitism* to fester,” he added. “We will not hesitate to act if #Harvard fails to do so.”
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In a stmnt on Monday, the #Trump admin said it was examining ~$256M in contracts, as well as another $8.7B in what it described as “multiyear grant commitments.”
“While #Harvard’s recent actions to curb institutionalized *antisemitism*—though long overdue—are welcome, there is much more that the university must do to retain the privilege of receiving federal taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars,” Josh Gruenbaum, a snr ofcl at the #GSA, said.
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#Trump admin will review roughly $9 billion in federal grants & contracts in funding for #Harvard
The admin has already canceled hundreds of millions in federal grants & contracts at Columbia & the University of Pennsylvania.
#USpol #education #research #science #academia #law #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfAssembly #RightToProtest
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/us/trump-administration-harvard-funding.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=ABF06A27-648D-4D4E-A053-DBBE522822C8
The New York Times · Trump Administration Will Review Billions in Funding for Harvard
Support Rosie Bsheer and Cemal Kafadar. After baseless accusations against CMES of “antisemitic” programming (and an anonymous student singling Kafadar out for expressing pro-#Palestine views), #Harvard has removed them as directors of the center. This is disgraceful #history #histodons https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/3/29/harvard-cmes-director-departure/
www.thecrimson.comHarvard Dismisses Leaders of Center for Middle Eastern Studies | News | The Harvard CrimsonInterim Harvard Dean of Social Science David M. Cutler ’87 dismissed the director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, professor of Turkish Studies Cemal Kafadar, and its associate director, History professor Rosie Bsheer, on Wednesday, according to a faculty member familiar with the situation.
The Independent · Harvard scientist who fled Russia due to anti-war views faces deportation back to Putin’s regime, friends say
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…A GoFundMe page set up by Anderson for #KseniyaPetrova said that the researcher was hired to work for #Harvard Medical School & had entered the US on a #WorkVisa. Anderson did not specify which work #visa category Petrova was under.
…Reports of Petrova’s detention come just weeks after a French #scientist was denied entry in the US this month after US #immigration officers searched his phone & found messages critical of #Trump.
#immigration #law #Constitution #DueProcess #CivilRights #DualState
Russian #scientist from #Harvard Medical School detained by #ICE
Cora Anderson, a friend & colleague of #KseniyaPetrova, shared the news of Petrova’s detention, saying Petrova arrived at #Boston’s Logan airport on 16 Feb from a trip to France when she was stopped by US authorities who revoked her #visa & told her she was to be deported to #Russia. In response, Petrova said she feared political persecution & was then sent to a #detention facility.
#immigration #law #Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/27/russian-scientist-harvard-medical-school-ice-detention
The Guardian · Russian scientist working at Harvard detained by Ice at Boston airport
“Surrendering to Authoritarianism”
by Chris Hedges in The Chris Hedges Report on Substack
“Liberal institutions, including universities, traditionally surrender without a fight to the dictates of autocrats. Ours are no exception”
https://open.substack.com/pub/chrishedges/p/surrendering-to-authoritarianism?r=27oltk&utm_medium=ios
The Chris Hedges Report · Surrendering to Authoritarianism
Council on Addressing Racism in the Early Years - Three centers are coming together because of complementary expertise and our shared values related to the importance of understanding and combatting racism as a persistent and harmful influence in children’s developmental environment.
Center on the Developing Child at Harvard UniversityCouncil on Addressing Racism in the Early Years - Center on the Developing Child at Harvard UniversityA multidisciplinary group of researchers, practitioners, community advocates, and policy experts to analyze, synthesize, and communicate what current evidence tells us about the effects of racism on children’s everyday lives.
Harvard study: open-source has an economic value of 8.8T dollars
#HackerNews #open-source #economic-value #Harvard-study #tech-news #innovation #8-8T-dollars
heise online · Harvard study: Open source has an economic value of 8.8 trillion dollars
I was really excited about this for a minute, but if they’re only admitting white men going forward I’m not sure I should be excited about this. But if fewer people saddled with student loan debt is always a good thing.
Also Dartmouth in NH decided to give free tuition to people whose families are less than $120,000 a year a few years ago, and if you don’t qualify for that they tried to get you grants because they don’t want to accept student loans anymore.
Harvard offers free tuition for families making less than $200,000 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2d5jllx60o
www.bbc.comHarvard offers free tuition for families making less than $200,000The move comes as Trump considers cuts to US university funding over DEI programmes.
"So far, America’s leading universities have remained virtually silent in the face of this authoritarian assault on institutions of higher education. That must change. Harvard must stand up, speak out, and lead a public defense of our freedom to speak and study freely."
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/3/14/enos-levitsky-harvard-columbia-trump/
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Saturday 1130-2 - Creative #Chess Club - #harvard Smith Center - “Our next event at Boston's Creative Chess Club will feature Beyond Chess, Marvel Chess, Lord of the Rings Chess, Infinity Chess: Instead of a traditional square board, it’s a board in the shape of an infinity symbol!, Knightmare Chess, and 4-Player Chess.”
#boston #BostonGames #BostonGeek
https://substack.com/inbox/post/159042894
#BostonWeekend 24/x
substack.com♟️Boston's Creative Chess Club-March Newsletter IDo you feel chess lucky?
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@rbreich Let's not forget, #Yale and #Harvard produced many of the worst #MAGAmoron sycophants.
New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics
Single-boson exchange formulation of the Schwinger-Dyson equation and its application to the functional renormalization group
Miriam Patricolo, Marcel Gievers, Kilian Fraboulet, Aiman Al-Eryani, Sarah Heinzelmann, Pietro M. Bonetti, Alessandro Toschi, Demetrio Vilardi, Sabine Andergassen
SciPost Phys. 18, 078 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.18.3.078
#TUW #MaxPlanckInstituteSolidStateResearch #ACS #MPQ #MCQST @unituebingen #RUB #Harvard
#IMPRS_QST
I think it’s always more relatable to see these things more closely, at the city level.
The #Petrofuture of #Boston … sea level rise when the ice caps melt, on a 1956 Shell Oil map.
The base map is from https://www.davidrumsey.com.
More: https://conspiracyofcartographers.com
#greenWashing #climate #maps #clifi #cartography #solarPunk #outsiderArt #NewEngland #Harvard #Massachusetts
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#Sauer, 50, is a #Harvard Law grad & #RhodesScholar who served as a #law clerk to the late #SupremeCourt Justice Antonin Scalia. Before his began representing #Trump in late 2023, Sauer was the state #SolicitorGeneral of Missouri [so he knows better]. He supported efforts to overturn Trump’s election defeat in 2020 & was at the lead of much of the red-state litigation against the #Biden admin.
His earlier representation of Trump *concerned* some of his Democratic critics.