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Harvard researcher charged with trying to smuggle frog embryos to be transferred to Massachusetts • May 16, 2025, 1:39 PM ET (AP)

Harvard thought it had a cheap copy of the Magna Carta. It turned out to be extremely rare • May 15, 2025, 6:31 AM ET (AP)

Harvard joins colleges moving to self-fund some research to offset federal funding cuts • May 14, 2025, 8:59 PM ET (AP)

Harvard loses another $450 million in grants in escalating battle with Trump administration • May 13, 2025, 5:59 PM ET (AP)

Harvard says it won't abandon ‘core’ principles to meet Department of Education demands • May 12, 2025, 3:32 PM ET (AP)

Facts

Date	1636 - present
Areas Of Involvement	coeducation
Notable Alumni	Lawrence H. Summers • Jerome Bruner • A. Lawrence Lowell • Hilary Putnam • Martha Nussbaum • Henry Adams • Gilbert N. Lewis • E.O. Wilson • Samantha Power • Michael Kremer • Daniel Lieberman • James Russell Lowell • Charles Olson • Cornel West • Zbigniew Brzezinski • Steven Pinker • Robert O. Keohane • Thomas C. Schelling • Deval Patrick • Theodore R. Sizer • John Hawkes • Christopher A. Sims • John Tate • Doris Kearns Goodwin • Walter Gilbert • Howard Gardner • George Steiner • Tenley Albright • Rosabeth Moss Kanter • McGeorge Bundy • Roy J. Glauber • John Franklin Enders • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph E. Murray • Martin Karplus • Vladimir Voevodsky • Sheldon Glashow • Carol Gilligan • Samuel Eliot Morison • Charles Townsend Copeland • David Mumford • George Herbert Hitchings • Nicolaas Bloembergen • Hironaka Heisuke • Kenneth E. Iverson • Mario R. Capecchi • John Livingston Lowes • Theda Skocpol • Alfred Kinsey • Eric S. Maskin • Theodore William Richards • Emil W. Haury • Dudley R. Herschbach • Roger D. Kornberg • Maxime Bôcher • William Gilson Farlow • Noam Chomsky • Franklin D. Roosevelt • Theodore Roosevelt • T.S. Eliot • Henry David Thoreau • Robert Frost • Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. • Steve Bannon • Ketanji Brown Jackson • Bill Ackman • Ralph Waldo Emerson • Antonin Scalia • Juan Manuel Santos • Vannevar Bush • Kevin Young • Vivek Murthy • Henry Kissinger • Lai Ching-te • William Moulton Marston • Álvaro Uribe • Ellen Johnson Sirleaf • Arne Duncan • William B. Castle • Jack Smith • Mitt Romney • Saul Kripke • Duma Boko • W.E.B. Du Bois • Sebastián Piñera • Ted Cruz • Stanley Milgram • Elise Stefanik • William H. Prescott • J. Robert Oppenheimer • Merrick Garland • Matt Damon • Darren Aronofsky • Ron DeSantis • John Lithgow • Vivek Ramaswamy • Jill Stein • Ben Bernanke • Pete Buttigieg • Frank Gehry • John Key • W.L. Mackenzie King • Rashida Jones • Mark Carney • Benazir Bhutto • John Adams • Robert Lowell • Al Gore • Jonny Kim • Michael Schur • Tommy Lee Jones • Antony Blinken • Ma Ying-jeou • Beaumont Newhall • Michael Bloomberg • Michelle Obama • Neil Gorsuch • Abhijit Banerjee • Harold H. Burton • Conan O’Brien • Sheryl Sandberg • Colson Whitehead • Mark Zuckerberg • Charles H. Bennett • Amanda Gorman • Ruben Gallego • Increase Mather • James Murdoch • Bill O’Reilly • Jeanne Gang • Bryan Stevenson • Chuck Schumer • Paul Farmer • Al Franken • John Fetterman • Masako • Dana Gioia • Lee Hsien Loong • Stephanie Wilson • Joseph P. Kennedy • Robert B. Wilson • Francis Fukuyama • Donald Tsang • Karl Deisseroth • Ben Sasse • Michael Crichton • Terrence Malick • Dambisa Moyo • Yo-Yo Ma • Neil deGrasse Tyson • Paul Volcker • Daniel C. Dennett • Meg Whitman • Daniel Ellsberg • Richard Theodore Greener • Gary Ruvkun • John Updike • David Baker • Bill Frist • Adrian Piper • Marvin Minsky • Ralph Nader • Celeste Ng • Robert Bly • Kapil Sibal • Ted Kaczynski • Jack Lemmon • Kenneth Chenault • Derek Parfit • Ernest Amory Codman • Loretta Lynch • Mira Sorvino • Edward L. Thorndike • Thomas Wolfe • Robert F. Kennedy • Domingo Cavallo • Jean Berko Gleason • Patrick Fitzgerald • Wallace Shawn • Mary Robinson • Robert S. McNamara • Ted Kennedy • Anthony Kennedy • Ban Ki-Moon • Ralph Van Deman • Randall Robinson • David Vitter • Andrew Weil • G. Stanley Hall • Carolyn R. Bertozzi • Bruce Alberts • Damien Chazelle • Tom Cotton • Michael Chertoff • Lewis F. Powell, Jr. • Mervyn King • Charles Hartshorne • Lobsang Sangay • Lou Gerstner • Robert Kraft
Related People	Lawrence H. Summers • Drew Gilpin Faust • Jerome Bruner • Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage • Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz • James B. Conant • Nathan Pusey • Charles William Eliot • John Harvard • Charles Francis Adams III • Frederic Ward Putnam • George Peabody • Henry Dunster • Edward Everett • Roland B. Dixon