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Professor Phil Levine estimated that taxing the earnings on Harvard’s $50-billion endowment at the current corporate tax rate of 21% could total some $800 million annually. Currently Harvard pays 1.4%.

Arielle Mitropoulos '19 reports on the communities along the Boston Marathon route. Includes interviews with Ella Wesenyak '26 and Jules Davidson '26 about the famous Wellesley Scream Tunnel.

With Trump ordering a freeze to funding, Harvard plans to cut staff and programs. "Two billion dollars is a lot of money for anybody, even for Harvard," economist Phillip Levine told WBZ.

A “Guggenheim” is one of the most sought-after honors in academe, arts, and culture. Professor Jay Turner is one of 198 scientists, social scientists, writers, artists and scholars to win the 2025 award.

“In 2025, deportation would be a much more likely outcome at each and every of the junctures of my immigrant life,” writes professor and Bosnian refugee Ismar Volić. “The empathy that saved me is gone.”

“It is time for you to leave the United States,” federal authorities wrote in an email received by immigration attorney Nicole Micheroni ‘07. Micheroni, who was born in Massachusetts, was confused.

Economics professor Philip Levine has calculated how much funding universities could lose if they faced the cumulative effect of three recent policies attempted/proposed by the Trump administration.

The "Scream Tunnel" at Wellesley College is just prior to the halfway point of the Boston Marathon and is known as one of the loudest and most enthusiastic parts of the course.