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A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.

The swift rollout at the Ivy League school is a case study in the turbulence that AI can bring.

Local universities rely on the agency in order to disburse financial aid disbursement, create new programs, or merge with other institutions. Now, they're scrambling.

Signs are emerging that there may be fewer international and graduate students in the Boston area this academic year.

In a conversation with Status, WIRED’s Katie Drummond argues that Silicon Valley is no longer just innovating new technology—it’s actively shaping American democracy.

Named for its developer, an undergrad who took leave from UChicago to become a DOGE affiliate, a new AI tool automates the review of federal regulations and flags rules it thinks can be eliminated.

Jay Bhattacharya’s tenure as NIH director has seen health disparities research swept up in the Trump administration’s attack on DEI

Degrees are being eliminated or scaled back at Boston University, Clark, Lesley, and the Berklee College of Music to the dismay of students and faculty.

Project managers, events directors, and research scientists — who never stand at the front of the classroom — are bearing the brunt of universities’ financial crisis.

A lawyer-turned-Harvard scientist built what was known as Grant Watch from a Google spreadsheet over a matter of months.

Immigrant neighborhoods in Massachusetts are feeling the strain of recent ICE actions, which have intensified in recent months. The Globe spent seven days in local communities to tell their stories.

SEC school leaders predict wealth and talent will soon be broadly distributed at public universities around the country and less concentrated in elite institutions.

Harvard is pulling from a far smaller pool of money for day-to-day operations than it’s used to.

A new report quantifies the costs of rising abortion restrictions three years after Dobbs.

Businesses across the South Coast are grappling with deep uncertainty as the costs of imports rise, and some workers could disappear amid immigration crackdowns.

When public heealth experts and MAHA activists broke bread together, they found more in common than they expected.

The Labor Department says staffing shortages reduced its ability to conduct its massive monthly survey, forcing it to turn to less precise guesses.

For years, a powerful ‘Big Ag’ trade group served up information on activists to the FBI. Records reveal a decade-long effort to see the animal rights movement labeled a “bioterrorism” threat.

The university endowment is an enormous asset, but tapping it isn’t as simple as withdrawing cash from an ATM.

Federal immigration authorities are using a little-known database to find students and terminate their status, experts say.

The state’s voters defeated an abortion ban. So why can’t more people get one?

Starting with cases involving sexual orientation and identity, the Department of Housing and Urban Development is hobbling enforcement of the Fair Housing Act. Said one HUD attorney: “People are…

The country’s premier medical school has lost money for years and leans heavily on research dollars that are now under threat from the White House.

As the weeks-long standoff between the university and the president continues, we want to know your questions. Then, join us on Thursday, April 24, at 11 a.m. to get answers.

DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, and IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.

The college is among the biggest recipients of foreign investments among schools nationwide and has previously faced criticisms for its financial ties to other countries.

Even Harvard, with its $53.2 billion endowment, is not immune to such a rapid and unprecedented cutoff of the kind of federal funds that comprise at least a tenth of its annual revenue.

The world’s richest man juggles more than a dozen children and ‘harem drama’ along with running his companies and advising Trump. He recently took a paternity test in a battle with one woman over mone...

Lawyers for Harvard University said Monday the school will not comply with a list of expanded demands from the Trump administration.

Northeast states have bet big on offshore wind to meet spiking power demand and drive economic growth. But the industry's future is much more uncertain under President Trump.

Jeremy Lewin worked on Donald Trump's impeachment and celebrated his 2020 defeat. Now he's helping the president dismantle USAID.

The small upper Cape community has been a sort of company town for environmental scientists for more than a century.

The Trump administration sent Venezuelans to El Salvador’s most infamous prison. Their families are looking for answers.

Student workers have had a string of labor victories across New England campuses in recent years. But if a recent clash at Clark is any indication, that could be changing.

The Palestinian co-director of Oscar-winning film “No Other Land” Hamdan Ballal was beaten up by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank and taken away by Israeli soldiers, his colleagues and eyewi...