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Jennifer Coolidge, who saw a career resurgence following her Emmy-winning turn as Tanya McQuoid-Hunt in the acclaimed HBO series “The White Lotus,” was named the 2023 Woman of the Year by Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals on Tuesday. Last week, the Pudding named award-winning actor, writer and bestselling author Bob Odenkirk, perhaps best known as shady lawyer Saul Goodman on…

“I was completely in shock,” said Matthew Myslenski, who has dreamed of attending Harvard since he was in elementary school. “I think it was just one of the best moments in my life.”

A video of Matthew Myslenski, a Connecticut high school senior, reacting to his acceptance at Harvard has been viewed by millions.

Harvard Arts and Sciences Dean Claudine Gay has been named the university’s next president, Harvard announced Thursday. Gay will be the university’s 30th president, but its first of color and the second woman to hold the position. In a video released by the school, Gay noted the rapid change taking place across society today and the possibilities that presents...

The University of California, Berkeley’s law school has joined the law programs at Harvard and Yale in pulling out of U.S. News & World Report’s rankings over concerns that they punish efforts to attract students from a broad range of backgrounds.

A Harvard University graduate student is helping Nahant residents facing eviction from their town-owned homes.

Harvard University students are on alert after someone broke into four dorms, stealing pricey electronics among other things Police are reminding students at Harvard to lock their doors and close their windows while they look for whoever is responsible for these break-ins. Investigators say the break-ins happened between late Friday night and early Saturday morning at Quincy and Adams houses and another on DeWolfe Street....

The items reported stolen late Friday into early Saturday include laptops, iPads, AirPods, a backpack, wallet, cash, and other miscellaneous items, Harvard police said.

Students at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, are on alert after someone broke into multiple dorms overnight, swiping pricey electronics among other things. The Harvard University Police Department sent a warning to students on Saturday, saying four incidents had been reported. According to campus police, all four break-ins happened at undergraduate residences between 11 p.m. Friday and 2 a.m. Saturday….

A Supreme Court that’s twice blessed race-conscious college admissions programs now seems poised to restrict their use with the addition of three Trump-appointed justices.

Students attending classes at Harvard University early next year will be required to receive the new bivalent COVID-19 vaccine booster. All students who will be on campus from January onward and who do not have religious or medical exemptions must have received the new booster, which targets the omicron variant and its subvariants. The announcement was made Monday by Dr….

The news that a person was hospitalized when a package delivered to a Northeastern University exploded Tuesday prompted other universities in the Boston area to issue alerts. Also Tuesday night, Boston police were investigating a suspicious device in the area of the Museum of Fine Arts, close to Northeastern. More details about that device weren’t immediately available. Boston University...

Authorities were investigating Tuesday night after a package delivered to the building exploded.

Two Massachusetts schools and one in Connecticut were ranked among the top 10 colleges in the country in U.S. News & World report’s latest rankings released Monday. MIT ranked number two, with both Harvard University and Yale University tied with Stanford University for the third spot. Other New England schools included in the top 50 were New Hampshire’s Dartmouth...

The student debt forgiveness plan announced Wednesday by the Biden administration is expected to wipe out remaining loan balances for an estimated 20 million people, but debate over whether it is enough is bringing into focus the rising cost of a college education. Boston University raised its tuition by 4.25% for the coming academic year, its largest jump in 14…

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Recently retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer both attended Harvard Law — graduating in 1964 — and taught there. He’ll teach seminars, write books, found scholarships and contribute to the university’s intellectual community, according to the announcement in Harvard Law Today.

Laptops, AirPods, a pair of glasses and more – all stolen in recent break-ins at Harvard University residence halls, the Harvard University Police Department said Monday. Police said thieves struck in three separate incidents on the university’s Cambridge campus – one at the Yard Dorms, another in Mower Hall and a third in Wigglesworth Hall. In two of the break-ins,…

A Connecticut woman who says she’s descended from enslaved people portrayed in widely-published, historical photos owned by Harvard can sue the Ivy League university for emotional distress, Massachusetts’ highest court ruled Thursday. The state’s Supreme Judicial Court partly vacated a lower court ruling that dismissed a complaint from Tamara Lanier over photos she says depict her enslaved ancestors. The...

Harvard University President Lawrence Bacow, who guided the Ivy League school through the coronavirus pandemic and put together a panel to examine the university’s deep ties to slavery, announced Wednesday that he plans to step down next year.