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MIT Warns Students of ICE Visits
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Worker Gabe Ryan removes a sign that includes the name Arthur M. Sackler at an entrance to Tufts School of Medicine, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019, in Boston. Tufts University says it is stripping the Sackler name from its campus in recognition of the family's connection to the opioid crisis.
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Tufts Severs Ties with Sacklers
The university will strip the Sackler name from its campus and accept no further donations amid concerns over the family's role in the opioid crisis.
December 6, 2019
In this Sept. 26, 2019, photo, cars pass Rockefeller University in New York. Prestigious universities around the world, including Rockefeller, have accepted at least $60 million over the past five years from the family that owns the maker of OxyContin, even as the company became embroiled in lawsuits related to the opioid epidemic, financial records show. Rockefeller accepted more money from the Sacklers than any other school in recent history.
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Colleges Got $60M from Sacklers
Some of the donations arrived before recent lawsuits blaming Purdue Pharma for its role in the opioid crisis. But at least nine schools accepted gifts in 2018 or later.
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Colleges Halt Work with Huawei
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E-Cig Makers Offer College Scholarships
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In this Oct. 27, 2015, file photo, a University of Washington student discards a cigarette into a container at a designated smoking locations on the campus in Seattle. Seventeen public health schools in the U.S. and Canada have pledged to refuse research money from a new anti-smoking group funded by the tobacco industry. Deans of public health schools at Harvard, Johns Hopkins and a dozen other schools said Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018, that the group is too closely tied to an industry that sells harmful products.
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Philip Morris's Anti-Smoking Group
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January 29, 2018
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In this Thursday, June 30, 2016 photo, Babson College graduate school alumnus Abhinav Sureka, of Mumbai, India, right, types in his work space at the college in Wellesley, Mass. Some U.S. colleges are starting programs to help their alumni get visas through what critics say is a legal loophole. Foreign grads who want to stay and start a business typically apply for one of the 85,000 H-1B visas that the U.S. gives out each year. But college employees are exempt from that cap, so schools like UMass, Babson and CUNY have launched programs to hire alumni and foreign entrepreneurs and help them grow their businesses here.
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Colleges Court Foreign Entrepreneurs
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In this Tuesday, April 26, 2016 photo, Jennifer Pierre, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., a student at Babson College, displays her prototype doll named Jaylen in a workroom at the school, in Wellesley, Mass. Pierre is launching a new line of dolls intended for boys of color.
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