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PBS Cuts Ties With Former Harvard Professor Elisa New Following Epstein Email Release

Mary T. Bassett's departure follows pressure on Harvard's FXB Center, with over 1,000 petitioners opposing the shift toward children’s health and early development focus.

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PBS has stopped airing former Harvard English professor Elisa F. New’s show, “Poetry in America,” after emails released by the House Oversight Committee last month revealed close ties between New, her husband Lawrence H. Summers, and convicted sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein, according to a spokesperson for PBS.

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Public Health Faculty Slam Harvard’s Removal of FXB Center Director Mary Bassett

More than 400 Harvard affiliates signed a petition to reinstate the director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights in a withering rebuke of the University’s decision to dismiss her earlier this week.

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thecrimson.com broke the news in on Friday, December 12, 2025.
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