The two Dartmouth players working to unionize their basketball team say other athletes have been reaching out to see if they can join the effort.

Over five hours at a congressional hearing, lawmakers pressed the presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and MIT on the topic of antisemitism.

Harvard President Claudine Gay will remain leader of the prestigious Ivy League school following her comments last week at a congressional hearing on antisemitism.

The university presidents called before last week’s congressional hearing on antisemitism had more in common than strife on their campuses: The leaders of the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard and MIT were all women who were relatively new in their positions.

As lawmakers and donors push for the ouster of Harvard President Claudine Gay, hundreds of faculty members are urging the university to keep her in command and resist “outside forces” that they view as a threat to the university’s independence.

The presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say they are taking steps to combat antisemitism — and Islamophobia — on campus since the start of the Israel-Hamas war.

There’s one college football conference sitting out the reshuffling going on among its big-money brethren: The Ivy League will start the season with the same eight members it has had since it formed in 1956.

A civil rights legal group is challenging legacy admissions at Harvard University, saying the practice discriminates against students of color by giving an unfair boost to the mostly white children of alumni.

In the wake of a Supreme Court decision that removes race from the admissions process, colleges are coming under renewed pressure to put an end to legacy preferences, the practice of favoring applicants with family ties to alumni.

President Joe Biden is expected to deliver remarks on the Supreme Court ruling against affirmative action in the college admissions process.

His candidacy could impact who eventually is elected president in 2024.

Two-time Academy Award winning actor Tom Hanks has been named the principal speaker at Harvard’s commencement on May 25.

Members of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority are questioning the continued use of affirmative action in higher education.

Three Americans are among winners of this year’s Balzan Prize.

The Supreme Court has taken a step that will allow new Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman on the court, to take part in a case that could lead to the end of the use of race in college admissions.

Retired Justice Stephen Breyer is getting a different title: professor.

Attorney General Merrick Garland told Harvard graduates Sunday that their generation has been asked to show “an impossible kind of resilience” after yet another mass shooting at another school.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson says that if confirmed to the Supreme Court she’d sit out an affirmative action lawsuit over Harvard’s admission policies because she sits on the board of her college alma mater.

Kathy Delaney-Smith is retiring after 40 years as Harvard's women's basketball coach.

When Ketanji Brown Jackson’s younger daughter was 11, she drafted a letter to President Barack Obama suggesting her federal-judge mom for a vacancy on the Supreme Court.

Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn and Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham say it'd be good if the person named to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer doesn’t have an Ivy League degree.

With abortion and guns already on the agenda, the conservative-dominated Supreme Court is considering adding a third blockbuster issue.

With abortion and guns already on the agenda, the conservative-dominated Supreme Court is considering adding a third blockbuster issue: whether to ban consideration of race in college admissions.

A group of Harvard researchers has come out against the U.S. Census Bureau's use of a controversial privacy method on the numbers used for redrawing congressional and legislative districts.

Native American activists at colleges are pushing their schools to do more to atone for past wrongs, much in the way states, cities and universities are weighing reparations for slavery and discrimination against Black people.

The consequences that come with deforestation affect everything from nutrition to infections.

Black History Month began as a week in 1926, pushed by Harvard historian Carter Woodson after he witnessed how Black people were underrepresented in history. That included books and the conversations that shaped the study of American history. The week was officially recognized as a month in 1976. Watch the full report in the video above.

FILE - In this June 17, 1999, file photo, Harvard professor Ezra Vogel gestures while speaking during his luncheon speech at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo. Vogel, a leading U.S. scholar on East Asia whose biography of Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping won acclaim and awards, died Sunday, Dec. 20, 2020, in Cambridge, Mass. – A leading U.S. scholar on East Asia whose biography of Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping won acclaim and awards has died. Vogel died Sunday in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from complications after surgery, said his son, Steven Vogel. Vogel is survived by his wife of 41 years, Charlotte Ikels; son David Vogel of Cambridge; son Steven Vogel of Berkeley, California; daughter Eve Vogel of Amherst, Massachusetts; a sister, Fay Bussgang, of Dedham, Massachusetts; and five grandchildren.

University of Michigan alumna Rohini Kosoglu has been named to Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’ White House senior staff. Kosoglu will serve as domestic policy advisor to the Vice President. She previously served as a legislative aide to Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow. She also previously served as a legislative aide to U.S. Originally from New Jersey, Kosoglu is a graduate of the University of Michigan and George Washington University and is a mother to three young children.

Harvard researchers wanted to see if increases in emergency department visits for respiratory illnesses among older adults happened in the days surrounding thunderstorms because vulnerable groups and those with common chronic respiratory disease may be able to take steps to prevent worsening. The study in JAMA Internal Medicine found thunderstorms are linked with an average of 3,700 emergency department visits annually in the U.S. among seniors with respiratory illnesses, including asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). They collected the data from 1999 through 2012 in more than 3,000 counties and looked at emergency department visits due to respiratory conditions in older patient populations in the days before and after thunderstorms. They found an uptick of ER visits of those with asthma and COPD on the day before thunderstorms. You can find the full study here.

DETROIT Wayne State and Oakland University will join the likes of Harvard, MIT and the University of Michigan in a fight to keep international students from being deported. The White House said if colleges dont reopen, international students will have to finish their studies online from their home countries. Rather than letting their international students be deported if schools to go a 100 percent online learning model -- they are figuring out how to make courses with the minimum bar of accommodation to keep those students visas safe. Yue Zhuo, an international student from China, left her home country to become an educator at Oakland University. She wouldnt be able to go back to China to continue her work online because of government censorship.

The Ivy League has canceled all fall sports because of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)The Ivy League on Wednesday became the first Division I conference to say it will not play sports this fall because of the coronavirus pandemic, a person with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press. The league left open the possibility of moving some seasons to the spring if the outbreak is better controlled by then. The decision was described to the AP by a person speaking on the condition of anonymity in advance of the official announcement. The Ivy decision affects not just football but everything before Jan. 1, including soccer, field hockey, volleyball and cross country, as well as the nonconference portion of the basketball season.

"This goes under the radar" because doctors wouldn't necessarily connect a child's pneumonia to measles they suffered a year earlier, Mina explained. After recovering from measles, the youngsters were left with plenty of antibodies against that virus but ones they'd previously harbored against other germs had plummeted. Elledge is paid by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, which also supports AP's Health & Science Department. But two months after recovering from measles, the children had lost on average 20 percent of their usual antibody mix. Importantly, researchers didn't find loss of antibodies in "control" populations that didn't get infected with measles or in children after they received the measles vaccine.

A team of Harvard bioengineers took a major step in taking cultured meat from lab to table. Researchers successfully grew cow and rabbit meat from an edible gelatin base for the first time, creating a substance that successfully mimicked the texture of natural meat, according to a new study published in the npj Science of Food journal. But previous attempts to grow environmentally friendly meat found it difficult to recreate the long, stringy muscle fibers that make up meat. The rabbit and cow cells anchored to the gelatinous bases and grew similarly to real meat in long and thin strips. Engineers are still perfecting growing the meat in large quantities and creating products that mimic the natural taste and texture of meat.

(CNN) - A US district judge in Boston has upheld Harvard's admissions process following a challenge from a group of Asian American applicants who believe the school discriminated against them. Judge Allison Burroughs ruled Tuesday that while Harvard's admissions process is "not perfect," she will not "dismantle a very fine admissions program that passes constitutional muster, solely because it could do better." Burroughs found "Harvard's admission program passes constitutional muster in that it satisfies the dictates of strict scrutiny." The ruling in the closely watched case is likely to be appealed and culminate in a national showdown over affirmative action at the US Supreme Court. The-CNN-Wire & 2019 Cable News Network, Inc., a Time Warner Company.

A couple in Colorado managed to fight off a bear that made its way into their kitchen before tucking into a loaf of bread. Dramatic images show the moment a naked man was arrested for allegedly killing his mother, sister and baby nephew. In North Carolina, a police captain trolled a phone scammer who warned her she was just minutes from being arrested. Inside Edition was there to see the proud parents say their goodbyes. For these stories and more, watch Inside Edition.

Proud parents Russell Simmons and his ex-wife, Kimora Lee, said goodbye to their daughter Aoki Lee Simmons, who will start freshman year of college at Harvard. Inside Edition was with the family, including sister Ming Lee Simmons, who attends New York University, as Aoki begins a new chapter in her life. Aoki found out she was accepted to Harvard earlier this year and the whole family celebrated. Kimora said she was so proud of her daughter getting into Harvard that she was "ugly crying" when Aoki received the acceptance letter. The Simmons family took a tour of Harvard Wednesday and Aoki said she plans to study government but will also help her mom with the re-launch of the clothing line Baby Phat.

Elisabeth Shue may be best known for her roles in the films "Leaving Las Vegas" and "Adventures in Babysitting," but she's also a Harvard alumnus who returned to complete her degree in 2000 after leaving to pursue her acting career.