Spend some time with Jim Martin and you learn to not interrupt him when he’s on a roll. “Here’s the RNA coming along with the code it picked up from one gene,” says Martin as he goes through a series of illustrations of molecules and chemical bonds.

As move-in day got closer, the two said they started to worry about how the highly transmissible delta variant might impact students.

In closing arguments in the Varsity Blues trial, prosecutors want to focus on bribes, but the ways in which universities cater to rich families is also on trial.

Students fill in important details that can’t fit in the annual lists.

The return to in-person schooling has meant a new wave of sexual assault allegations.

A commission recommended how administrators can respond to the Catholic clergy sex abuse crisis and the university’s links to accused priests. Advocates for survivors were not impressed.

A professor of climate science who opposed diversity initiatives cries foul over a canceled lecture. His supporters say this threatens science communication, but he’s been invited to speak at MIT in another capacity.

How a financial crisis at a small university became one of the state’s biggest scandals.