Reif's admission comes after Joi Ito resigned as director of MIT's famous Media Lab Saturday after The New Yorker magazine revealed he had downplayed and concealed funds from Epstein.Reif said in his letter to staff that several members of MIT's administration were aware of gifts given by Epstein between 2013 and 2017, and that they asked Ito to ensure that they were kept anonymous so Epstein could not use them to rebuild his reputation'I am aware that we could, and should have, asked more questions about Jeffrey Epstein. After consultation with the Dean of the FAS, we have decided that the University will redirect the unspent resources to organizations that support victims of human trafficking and sexual assault. Harvard has revealed that it received about $9million directly from disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and his foundationsHarvard has revealed that it received about $9 million from disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and appointed him a visiting fellow, as it vows to direct the funds to victims of sexual assault.The elite university admitted that it received the funding over a decade period that ended in 2007 and that the pedophile was listed as a fellow in the psychology department in 2005.In a letter to the community published on Thursday night, Harvard president Larry Bacow said the school was expanding its Epstein probe. 'Harvard has previously admitted that Epstein gave them a $6.5 million contribution to establish their Program for Evolutionary Dynamics in 2003.However, Bacow conceded in his letter that $2.4 million in donations to support Harvard between 1998 and 2007. Pinker’s graduate advisor, Stephen Kosslyn, received money from Epstein for work on evolutionary psychology and described him as an “amazing” pollinator of ideas between scientists.

Our review to date indicates that between 1998 and 2007, Epstein made a number of gifts to support various faculty and institutional research activities across the University. However, two basic facts have emerged that we thought were important to share with you now.First, the Goodwin Procter team has found a copy of a standard acknowledgment letter thanking Jeffrey Epstein for a gift to Seth Lloyd – as far as we know now, the first gift received at MIT after Epstein’s conviction.

The donation came four years after the well-connected Epstein, who committed suicide as he awaited trial on sex-trafficking charges, was convicted in Reif (speaking at MIT in 2012) said in a statement: 'Because the members of my team involved believed it was important that Epstein not use gifts to MIT for publicity or to enhance his own reputation, they asked [MIT Media Lab Director Joi Ito] to agree to make clear to Epstein that he could not put his name on them publicly. Pest controllers warn giant nests are popping up in houses across Britain after...'Neo-Nazi' Met Police officer, 22, appears in court for being 'member of far-right terror group National...'Only HE knows why he did it': Teenage traveller 'Rocky', 17, is jailed for life for 'random' murder of...Trump is closing the gap on Biden: New nationwide Fox News poll shows the president seven points behind the...First official portrait of Burma veteran Captain Sir Tom Moore, 100, is unveiled at the National Army Museum...Toddler dies after falling from ninth-floor window at a block of flats in east London as shocked neighbours...Black DJ fears she was racially profiled by her neighbours after police were called to her flat over 'wild...Hiroshima in colour: Terrible power of the atomic bomb is shown in colourised photos 75 years after 146,000...Ofqual blames the teachers: Regulator says 'implausibly high' predicted grades for A-level pupils are behind...Preparing for university!

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Our ongoing review of these gifts has identified one current use fund and one small endowment designated to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences with a total unspent balance of $186,000. Prosecutors have pledged to charge any co-conspirators. Our decentralization makes such a review more complicated than it would be at some other institutions. The elite university admitted that it received the Epstein funding over a decade period that ended in 2007.Harvard's letter comes less than a week after another elite Massachusetts college was embroiled in another Epstein donation scandal. Some of this work is based on neuroimaging, showing that the degree of activation in distinct parts of the brain predicts how well a person can perform particular tasks. His sponsor both times was the department chairman, Stephen Kosslyn (now retired), who took $200,000 in research-support donations from Epstein from 1998 to … Dozens of victims have described him as a sexual predator who used young women as his sex slaves. President Leo Rafael Reif called the message to Epstein a 'standard acknowledgment letter' in a statement to the university community posted on its website.

'He also admitted that he was at a meeting where his senior colleagues discussed Epstein's conviction and donations. 'According to emails obtained by Ronan Farrow for The New Yorker, the college's Media Lab continued to accept money from Epstein despite him being removed from its donor list.In total, he personally gifted the school $1.7 million and secured funding from his well-heeled friends which amounted to $7 million. France vows to retaliate against British travellers as No...Return to sender: Moment tables are turned on fly-tipper who dumped 400 tyres in countryside... when tipper...Bomb disposal team are called to Sellafield nuclear site after explosive chemical organic peroxide was...Pictured: Churchgoer, 26, known as Gucci for his love of the fashion label who was shot dead by hooded...Crime scene evidence thrown into question as forensic research proves fibres CAN transfer between clothing...UK government-financed projects in Scotland will fly a Union flag as Boris Johnson battles Nicola Sturgeon's...Beware the wasp invasion!