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Saketh Sundar

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Headed to the Show: Baseball’s Pauley and Fang Drafted to MLB After Standout Seasons

When Harvard baseball needed clutch pitching, Truman Pauley and Callan Fang delivered — and now the big leagues want in. The two right-handers were selected on Monday in the 2025 MLB Draft, after anchoring one of the most improbable turnarounds in Ivy League history.


Senate Finance Committee Proposal for 8% Endowment Tax Could Cost Harvard $200 Million Per Year

The Senate Finance Committee released proposed changes to the House’s tax and spending bill that would introduce an 8 percent tax on large endowments. Down from the 21 percent rate passed by the House, the proposal would still be a sixfold hike from the 1.4 percent Harvard currently pays.


When Bill Gates Wrote Microsoft’s First Code on a Harvard Mainframe

Bill Gates arrived at Harvard College in September 1973 as a quiet freshman from Seattle in Wigglesworth Hall. He left campus two years later not with a degree, but with a piece of software that would launch Microsoft and begin reshaping the digital landscape.


After a Semester of Catastrophic Federal Cuts, Researchers at Harvard Are in a ‘Survival State’

Across Harvard’s schools, researchers described a wave of destruction following sweeping terminations of federally funded grants. More than $2.7 billion in cuts have come as part of the Trump administration’s targeted pressure campaign against Harvard.


From 4–20 to Ivy Final: Behind Strong Pitching, Harvard Baseball “Proves The World Wrong”

After Harvard's baseball team faced a 4-21 start to the season, it knew things had to change to keep its season alive. Then, as Truman Pauley took the mound that afternoon, his performance ignited an improbable postseason run.


House Narrowly Passes GOP Tax Bill Targeting Harvard’s Endowment with 21 Percent Tax

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a sweeping Republican-backed tax and spending bill Thursday that would impose a 21 percent tax on Harvard’s endowment returns — the latest in a series of federal measures inflicting harsh financial penalties on the University.


Scores of Researchers Receive Termination Notices After Federal Government Cuts Most Grants to Harvard

More than 100 Harvard researchers received termination notices for federally funded research projects on Thursday, as sweeping cuts to the majority of Harvard’s federal grants begin taking effect across the University’s labs.