Grace E. Yoon

More than 100 people gathered in Science Center Plaza Sunday evening for a vigil to mourn those killed in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel nearly two years ago.

National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya is the face of the agency whose steep funding cuts have put research at Harvard and elsewhere in limbo. But before he was a top Trump administration official, Bhattacharya was friends with Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76.

The 53rd Annual Evening with Champions took place last Friday and Saturday at the Harvard Bright-Landry Hockey Center. The student-run annual fundraiser brings together figure skaters from across the globe to raise money for The Jimmy Fund, the fundraising arm of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The organization has raised over $3 million since its inauguration.

Harvard Provost John F. Manning ’82 said the University still has “much work to do” in a rare public appearance on Friday at Memorial Church, where he discussed his own spiritual development at Harvard.

The Trump administration on Friday launched an investigation into Harvard’s patents derived from federally funded research, threatening intellectual property potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Harvard spent $270,000 lobbying the federal government between April and June as it ramped up efforts to counter mounting political and financial pressures from Washington, according to disclosures filed last month.

The Department of Health and Human Services referred its antisemitism probe into Harvard to the Department of Justice for possible legal action on Wednesday after what it called “fruitless” talks with the University, according to a letter obtained by The Crimson.

Harvard announced a new undergraduate study abroad program with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and launched a postdoctoral fellowship for Israeli scientists at Harvard Medical School on Monday in a dramatic expansion of the University’s academic and institutional ties to Israel.

The White House is pushing Harvard for a major financial settlement in negotiations to restore more than $2 billion in frozen funds, according to a person familiar with the talks — and demanding that Harvard cough up even more than Columbia University did earlier this week.

A confidential memo, later published in court documents, shows that the Trump administration had already shared an aggressive ‘menu’ of reforms with Harvard, a week before government officials sent a second list of demands that the University rejected.

Harvard paid lobbying firm Ballard Partners $90,000 in the second quarter of 2025 as the University broadened its federal advocacy to include direct engagement with the White House, according to a disclosure filed Tuesday.

The Trump administration notified Harvard’s accreditor on Wednesday that the University is in violation of federal civil rights law and suggested that there was “strong evidence” that its accreditation should be revoked.

The Department of Homeland Security issued a subpoena to Harvard on Wednesday, demanding documents related to alleged misconduct by international students and the school’s compliance with federal immigration law.

President Donald Trump signed into law a sweeping tax and spending package that significantly raises the federal excise tax on Harvard’s endowment income on Friday — a move that could cost the University more than $200 million a year.

President Donald Trump said early Friday morning that settlement talks between his administration and Harvard are still active — even as federal officials step up their pressure campaign against the University.

The Trump administration formally accused Harvard on Monday of violating federal civil rights law by failing to protect Jewish and Israeli students from harassment, citing a series of antisemitic incidents and alleging administrative inaction.

House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) issued a subpoena to Harvard on Thursday, demanding documents on the school’s financial aid process as part of an ongoing congressional investigation into alleged tuition-fixing across the Ivy League.

Representative Elise M. Stefanik ’06 (R-N.Y.) alleged that Harvard should have told bondholders in an April 9 notice to expect financial fallout from defying the Trump administration’s demands. It is not clear that Harvard had already decided to reject the demands at the time of the bond offering.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio urged the Treasury Department to open an investigation into whether Harvard violated federal sanctions laws by co-sponsoring a health policy conference in China that may have included blacklisted Chinese officials, The New York Times reported Wednesday morning.

Nine Republican lawmakers on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce opened an investigation into Harvard’s faculty hiring practices on Tuesday, claiming Harvard may have violated federal employment discrimination law by considering race and gender.