Harvard researcher in ICE custody charged with smuggling frog embryos into Boston; Massachusetts U.S. Attorney criticizes The New York Times for allowing her opinion piece

A Russian-born scientist and Harvard University researcher, who was already facing deportation back to Russia, was charged Wednesday with trying to smuggle frog embryos into the country.

Kseniia Petrova, 31, has been in ICE custody since February, when she flew into Boston Logan International Airport with unclaimed frog embryo samples and slides packed in her checked luggage.

Harvard University is putting up $250 million of its own money to continue campus research amid a federal funding freeze imposed by the Trump administration, but the school’s president warns of sacrifices ahead.

A Russian-born scientist and research associate at Harvard University who has been held for weeks in an immigration detention center in Louisiana has been criminally charged with attempting to smuggle frog embryo samples into the United States.

A Harvard Medical School scientist was charged on Wednesday in connection with frog embryos found in her duffle bag at Logan International Airport in February.

Harvard University President Alan Garber and Provost John F. Manning on Wednesday announced they will “reaffirm the University’s commitment to the research enterprise” amid Trump administration’s full-frontal assault on its financial and cultural capital.

Harvard University is dedicating $250 million of its own funds to support researchers after U.S. President Donald Trump's administration froze nearly $3 billion in federal grants and contracts in recent weeks,

Harvard University has responded to threats from the Education Department to halt grant funding to the Ivy League school