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William Mao

@williamcmao

Covering the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' Administration for @thecrimson. @harvard '27. Tips at [email protected]

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Harvard spent $620k on lobbying the federal govt in 2024 — the most it’s spent since 2010 — as it attempts to dissuade lawmakers from imposing a larger endowment tax and other financial penalties on the heels of a 2023 leadership crisis. in The Harvard Crimson thecrimson.com/article/2025/2…

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Harvard dismissed the faculty leaders of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies on Wednesday, a dramatic shakeup at a center that has come under fire for its programming on Israel and Palestine. w/ Veronica Paulus in The Harvard Crimson thecrimson.com/article/2025/3…

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Harvard intended to publish reports from its task forces on antisemitism and anti-Muslim, anti-Arab, and anti-Palestinian bias in early April. Then, the Trump administration took aim at Harvard — and the release date was pushed back. thecrimson.com/article/2025/4…

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Since George T. Andreou ’87 became the press’s director in 2017, staff alleged — in interviews, surveys, and letters to Harvard officials — that he belittled employees and mismanaged the publishing house. William Mao and Veronica Paulus report. thecrimson.com/article/2025/5…

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Government lawyers said the Trump administration plans to deport Kseniia Petrova, an HMS researcher detained by Customs and Border Protection officials in February, back to Russia at a Wednesday hearing. William Mao and Veronica Paulus report. thecrimson.com/article/2025/5…

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BOSTON — A government lawyer conceded that the removal of two Harvard Medical School professors’ research from a federal website constituted ā€œviewpoint discriminationā€ at a Wednesday hearing in Boston. William Mao and Veronica Paulus report. thecrimson.com/article/2025/5…

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Harvard funded an interpreter for a Tuesday disability affinity ceremony but told organizers to distance the event from traditional affinity celebrations held in previous years. w/Samuel A. Church, William Mao in The Harvard Crimson thecrimson.com/article/2025/5…

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A judge ordered the release of HMS researcher Kseniia Petrova from ICE custody. Petrova faces smuggling charges and is still in criminal custody — and ICE has a detainer to re-arrest her if released. William Mao in The Harvard Crimson: thecrimson.com/article/2025/5…

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BREAKING: A federal grand jury has just indicted Kseniia Petrova, the Russian HMS researcher facing criminal smuggling chargers after failing to declare frog embryo samples, on three criminal counts. w/ William Mao thecrimson.com/article/2025/6…

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A majority of faculty who responded to The Crimson’s annual survey of Harvard’s FAS support the University’s lawsuit against the Trump administration — and believe Harvard shouldn’t cut a deal with the White House. William Mao & Veronica Paulus report. thecrimson.com/article/2025/7…

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A DHS official testified that the government created reports on potential criminal conduct by more than 100 student protesters nationwide, drawing their names from a 5,000-person list compiled by the doxxing website Canary Mission. w/ Laurel Shugart thecrimson.com/article/2025/7…

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One in two faculty who responded to The Harvard Crimson's annual Faculty of Arts and Sciences survey said the Trump administration’s actions have discouraged them from expressing their political views. w/ Veronica Paulus thecrimson.com/article/2025/7…

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Several Harvard graduate schools shuttered their diversity, equity, and inclusion offices over the past two weeks, as the Trump administration has broadly painted them as illegal. William Mao, Veronica Paulus, and Elise Spenner report. thecrimson.com/article/2025/7…

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A 2000-page filing in Harvard’s funding lawsuit gave the clearest glimpse yet into the Trump admin’s process for terminating grants to Harvard — and showed DOGE helped facilitate the effort. w/ Veronica Paulus and Laurel Shugart in The Harvard Crimson thecrimson.com/article/2025/7…

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Common pro-Palestine claims — including criticism of the state of Israel — "could be" grounds for revoking a noncitizen student or faculty's visa, a State Department official testified today. w/ Laurel Shugart in The Harvard Crimson thecrimson.com/article/2025/7…

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A federal judge appeared skeptical of the federal government’s justification for freezing nearly $3 billion in research funding to Harvard, as lawyers for both parties asked for a speedy decision in the case. Matan Josephy and William Mao report. thecrimson.com/article/2025/7…

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A confidential memo shows that the Trump administration had already shared an aggressive ā€˜menu’ of reforms with Harvard, a week before government officials sent a second list of demands that the University rejected. Dhruv Patel & Grace Yoon report. thecrimson.com/article/2025/7…

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Harvard Law School professor Richard H. Fallon Jr. died earlier this month at age 73. His students and colleagues remembered him as a clear-eyed scholar, dedicated to students and possessed of a quiet but ready wit. Caroline G. Hennigan and William Mao report. thecrimson.com/article/2025/7…

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A Harvard education journal’s publisher canceled a special issue on Palestine and education, sparking accusations from authors and editors that the publisher made a ā€œPalestine exceptionā€ to academic freedom. William Mao and Veronica Paulus report. thecrimson.com/article/2025/7…