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  • Why are Harvard’s slavery researchers quitting or being fired? Michela Moscufo
    The school’s $100m project to examine its slave ownership in Antigua is mired with controversy as academics allege obstructionChristopher Newman remembers seeing campus police officers as he walked into a human resources office at Harvard University, but he didn’t imagine that they were there for him.It was July 2024, and Newman had just turned in the results of a two-month-long internship with the Harvard University Archives: an annotated bibliography for the landmark 2022 Harvard and the Legac
     

Why are Harvard’s slavery researchers quitting or being fired?

18 April 2026 at 10:00

The school’s $100m project to examine its slave ownership in Antigua is mired with controversy as academics allege obstruction

Christopher Newman remembers seeing campus police officers as he walked into a human resources office at Harvard University, but he didn’t imagine that they were there for him.

It was July 2024, and Newman had just turned in the results of a two-month-long internship with the Harvard University Archives: an annotated bibliography for the landmark 2022 Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery Initiative report, which detailed the university’s ties to slavery across three centuries. He completed his project on Friday, 26 July, and on Monday, he said he received an email that HR wanted to meet with him.

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© Composite: Rita Liu/The Guardian/Getty Images/Alamy

© Composite: Rita Liu/The Guardian/Getty Images/Alamy

Darkroom Assistant’s Scrapbook Contains Unseen Photos Taken by Lee Miller and Cecil Beaton

8 April 2026 at 12:44

A split image: left side shows a person taking a bath in a tiled bathroom with boots on the floor; right side shows four soldiers in uniform talking outdoors. Handwritten captions are visible below both images.

A darkroom printer's scrapbook containing previously unseen photos that belonged to Lee Miller and Cecil Beaton has been unearthed and acquired by the University of Oxford's Bodleian Libraries.

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Energy and data: International project boosts university resilience in Cuba

30 March 2026 at 14:03

As part of the PULSE-C project, the University of Camaguey will receive a photovoltaic system with storage that will guarantee the operational continuity of its strategic services, in a commitment to the dual energy and digital transition in Cuban Higher Education

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