Thousands of Harvard graduate students strike — bringing research to a halt

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Graduate student workers picket in front of the Harvard Science Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on 21 April.Credit: John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty

Two thousand graduate student workers who went on strike at Harvard University starting on 21 April have brought a sizeable chunk of the institution’s teaching and research to a halt.

Despite the university’s medical school in Boston, being open the next day, the hallways of the Veritas Science Center were deserted. “It was completely empty,” says microbiologist and postdoctoral fellow Adam Sychla. “It’s clear the labs aren’t running.”

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