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A well-known Indian TV news anchor claimed on Twitter Friday that she was the victim of a ‘phishing attack,’ which misled her to believe for months that she had been hired as a journalism professor at Harvard. Nidhi Razdan, who worked for 21 years as a reporter at New Delhi Television — a broadcast and digital news company in India — wrote that she quit her previous job in June because she was falsely under the impression that she had been hired by Harvard as an associate professor of journalism. Razdan announced on Twitter in June that she was “changing direction and...

Amid skyrocketing nationwide case counts of Covid-19, Harvard administrators announced Monday that the College is cautiously moving forward with welcoming increased numbers of students back to campus for the spring semester. In December, Harvard College announced that it would expand on-campus living to prioritize seniors, juniors who were enrolled in fall 2020, and students with learning environment needs. Writing to all University affiliates Monday morning, University President Lawrence S. Bacow cited “record high numbers of cases worldwide and in the United States” as cause for caution...

Zaosong Zheng, a former researcher at Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, was sentenced on Wednesday for lying to federal agents in connection with his attempt to take cancer research to China. U.S. District Court Judge Denise J. Casper sentenced Zheng to time served — approximately 87 days — and three years of supervised release, as well as ordering his removal from the United States. Zheng’s lawyers wrote in a Tuesday sentencing memo that Zheng has tickets to return to China Wednesday and has agreed to not return to the U.S. for at least 10 years. Zheng — a 31-y...

Harvard faculty reacted with shock and frustration — but often little surprise — to the storming of the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob Wednesday that disrupted the counting of electoral votes. Chaos erupted in Washington, D.C. Wednesday afternoon when rioters breached the Capitol, forcing the Senate to be cleared out and Vice President Mike Pence and lawmakers to be evacuated to secure locations. Amid the riots, a woman was shot and killed, and several explosives were discovered around Capitol Hill. Police managed to clear the mob from the Capitol by early evening, and lawmakers re...

UPDATED: December 18, 2020 at 12:08 a.m. University Professor and potential 2022 gubernatorial candidate Danielle S. Allen said she would apply decades of experience in academia to her foray into politics in an interview with The Crimson on Tuesday. Allen announced on Twitter Monday she is exploring a potential Democratic candidacy for Massachusetts governor in 2022. She also officially filed as a potential candidate with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, making her the second Democratic candidate to publicly explore a 2022 gubernatorial bid. At Harvard, Allen’s academic work has focuse...