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Here Is All the Science at Risk in Trump’s Clash With Harvard

The federal government annually spends billions funding research at Harvard, part of a decades-old system that is little understood by the public but essential to American science.

The New York Times
Here Is All the Science at Risk in Trump’s Clash With Harvard

How Medical Grant Cuts Could Impact Women’s Health Research

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How Medical Grant Cuts Could Impact Women’s Health Research

A woman fears her eyesight won’t be saved in time due to research grant cuts

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A woman fears her eyesight won’t be saved in time due to research grant cuts

Harvard AIDS Research, Affiliated Hospitals Hit by Trump Feud

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Harvard AIDS Research, Affiliated Hospitals Hit by Trump Feud

Harvard Argues Cutting Off Its Government Funding Is Wasteful

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Harvard Argues Cutting Off Its Government Funding Is Wasteful

Defense Department official pleaded with superiors not to cut Harvard grant on ‘biological threats’

Defense Department official pleaded with superiors not to cut Harvard grant on ‘biological threats’
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From rural New Hampshire to Galveston, fallout from Trump’s battle with Harvard extends far beyond Boston

The Boston Globe
Walter Isaacson and David Liu on PBS.

Deadly Cost of Funding Cuts

PBS - Amanpour & Company
President Garber speaks with Steve Inskeep from NPR.

As Trump Targets Elite Schools, Harvard’s President Says They Should ‘Stand Firm’

NPR Morning Addition
Joan Brugge speaking to PBS host Laura Barrón-López.

Trump administration’s escalating feud with Harvard affects breast cancer research

PBS News

Trump’s Push to Defund Harvard Prompts Clash Over Veteran Suicide Research

New York Times

Antibiotic research at Harvard lab threatened by federal funding cuts

WBUR
David Sinclair in his lab.

Scores of Researchers Receive Termination Notices After Federal Government Cuts Most Grants to Harvard

Harvard Crimson
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Why a weaker Harvard would mean a weaker Massachusetts

Boston Globe

Harvard Hits Back at Education Secretary McMahon, Denying Political Bias

Bloomberg
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Harvard President on Trump Attacks: ‘The Fight Came to Me’

Wall Street Journal

Harvard’s President Is Fighting Trump. He Also Agrees With Him.

New York Times
Alan Garber speaking to an interviewer in a suit and tie.

Harvard President Says Any Move to Revoke Tax-Exempt Status Would Be ‘Highly Illegal’

Wall Street Journal
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Harvard has strong legal arguments against Trump administration

Boston Globe
Lester Holt straight to camera with a photo of President Garber in the background.

Bigger than Harvard

NBC Nightly News
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The Cost of Defunding Harvard

The New Yorker
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Harvard Had No Choice

Chronicle of Higher Education

Trump’s freeze on $2.2 billion to Harvard provided no proof of wrongdoing

Washington Post

What Harvard Has Set the Stage For

New York Times

Early Targets of Harvard Funding Cuts: Tuberculosis, ALS Research

Wall Street Journal

What to Know as Trump Freezes Federal Funds for Harvard and Other Universities

New York Times