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Harvard University announced this week that it is canceling its annual spring commencement ceremony as a precautionary measure against the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus. Instead, the university will stream several virtual graduation ceremonies on May 28.

Actor Sam Waterston was among the more than one hundred climate-change protestors who rushed the field during halftime of the Harvard-Yale football game Saturday in New Haven, Conn.

Harvard student Kelley Babphavong condemned her university’s discriminatory admissions procedure in an appearance on Fox & Friends this week.

A United States District Court Judge ruled this week that Harvard University does not discriminate against Asian-Americans in its admission process. Here are some of the key takeaways from the decision.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel gave a tribute to globalism during a commencement ceremony at Harvard University on Thursday, demanding “walls of ignorance” be torn down.

Jin Kyu Park became the first Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) illegal alien to win the Rhodes Scholarship. The 22-year-old South Korean illegal immigrant backed by Harvard University received the prestigious award on Saturday.

All is fair in love and war. However, while passions similarly run deep in the turbulent world of college football, not all emotional expressions are fair or allowed.

Original anthem protester Colin Kaepernick is urging continued protests, even as the number of players still carrying on with the demonstrations has dwindled to less than a dozen.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick and comedian Dave Chappelle are among eight people being saluted by Harvard University for their contributions to black history and culture.

Gun control activist David Hogg is scheduled to speak at Harvard University and the Boston Public Library.

In a Washington Post column, Harvard professor and adamant anti-Trump voice Tom Nichols told Republicans to rescue their party by voting against it.

A professor at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government is calling for universities not to honor or hire Trump administration officials, essentially blacklisting them from opportunities to engage with the academic community.

A group of psychologists at Harvard University published a report last week that argues that “trigger warnings” only serve to stress out those that they are designed to protect.

New York Times contributor Wesley Yang fired back at Harvard University after a report last week revealed that the prestigious institution was giving Asian applicants low personality ratings without even meeting them.

The New York Post editorial board published a column on Sunday accusing Harvard University of blatant racism in its admissions practices.

A Harvard University Medical School teaching hospital announced this week that it will be removing paintings of white former doctors in an alleged effort to place a greater emphasis on diversity.

Eight months after Hurricane Maria made landfall on the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, the effort to restore the island continues. The federal government has obligated $2.2 billion in federal aid, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and countless other contracted boots are still on the ground.

A new survey of Harvard University professors indicates that 88 percent of faculty believe that Donald Trump has done a “very poor job” in his first year and a quarter as president while another eight percent say he is doing a “poor job.”

Harvard University has added to its growing list of gay student groups, by creating a ”BGLTQ” support group for student athletes “identifying” as gay and transgender, a report says.

Actor-comedian Jim Carrey took to Twitter to share artwork targeting Facebook over reports that the social media network allowed third-party analytics firm Cambridge Analytica to access millions of its users’ data during the 2016 election.

A longtime Harvard professor facing multiple sexual harassment allegations announced Tuesday that he would retire at the end of the Spring 2018 semester.

A Harvard professor is on administrative leave after ten women claimed that he sexually harassed them and made unwanted sexual advances toward them over three decades.

Harvard University lost $1 billion after a risky investment in international agricultural backfired, according to a report from Bloomberg Businessweek.

The Harvard community is expressing its disappointment that another white male has been selected to serve as university president.

Harvard University is offering a new graduate course on the role of feces in French literature of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Harvard University’s Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority chapter has dissolved to form a new gender-neutral social club called the Fluer-de-Lis.

The number of sexual harassment complaints at Harvard University jumped 65 percent during the 2016-2017 academic year, reports the student-run Harvard Crimson.

Harvard University announced this week it will formally adopt a policy that forbids members of single-gender student organizations from serving in leadership positions or applying for fellowships.

An op-ed in the Harvard Crimson published last week railed against communism, claiming it took 100 million lives during the 20th century.

The Justice Department has accused Harvard University of failing to cooperate with its probe into discriminatory affirmative action practices, according to documents obtained by the Wall Street Journal.

While students demanded that a lecture from scholar Charles Murray be canceled in September, Harvard University hosted a workshop on anal sex this week.

Harvard Law School Dean of Students Marcia L. Sells has condemned the posting of “It’s okay to be white” stickers on the university campus, calling them divisive and “a provocation.”

Harvard University Professor Jonathan L. Walton called the NRA a “domestic terrorist organization” during a speech at the campus’s Memorial Church.

The Justice Department is investigating affirmative action policies at Harvard University over claims of discrimination in the admissions process.

Retired Harvard University law professor Alan Dershowitz on Wednesday encouraged university students not to back down from difficult discussions surrounding Israel on campus, urging them to make complex, cogent cases rooted in history when faced with propagandistic attacks.

The editorial board of the Crimson, the student newspaper of Harvard University, is defending the administration’s plan to discourage students from joining fraternities.