Embattled Harvard president makes admission about past work after plagiarism probe launched

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }} Harvard University President Claudine Gay has made further admissions in the allegations of plagiarism leveled against her as a US House Committee widens a probe to investigate the claims. After the US House Committee on Education and the Workforce expanded a probe to investigate claims of plagiarism against her, Ms Gay issued new updates to her 1997 PhD thesis to correct instances of “inadequate citation” following a university review, a Harvard spokesperson told CNN on 21 December. The US House Committee on Education and the Workforce, led by Representative Virginia Foxx of North Carolina, expanded an existing probe to include allegations against Ms Gay of academic plagiarism, according to a 20 December letter from Ms Foxx addressed to Penny Pritzker, Senior Fellow for the Harvard Corporation. Ms Gay, MIT President Sally Kornbluth and University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill testified to the committee earlier this month about their colleges’ responses to alleged incidents of antisemitism on their campuses since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war on 7 October.