Two more Jeffrey Epstein associates have resigned their positions from two Ivy League universities.
Former Harvard President Larry Summers will resign from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of the academic year, relinquishing his University Professorship — Harvard’s highest faculty distinction — and remaining on leave until that time.
Summers is also relinquishing his role as co-director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School, confirmed by Harvard officials.
His career spanned prize-winning research, service as United States Treasury Secretary, and the presidency of Harvard.
Released Epstein files revealed Summers exchanged messages with Epstein about women, politics, and Harvard-linked projects over at least seven years — staying in contact as late as July 2019, the day before Epstein’s final arrest.
Summers also reached out to Epstein for advice on his romantic pursuit of a young woman he described as a mentee.
Nobel laureate Richard Axel announced his resignation as co-director of Columbia University’s neuroscience institute on Tuesday.
Dr Richard Axel, a molecular biologist and Nobel laureate, was the leader of a prestigious neuroscience institute at Columbia University, and taught at Columbia for 53 years.
Axel said he is leaving his position as co-director of the university’s Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute to “focus on research and teaching in my lab.”
Correspondence between Axel and Epstein spans at least nine years, from 2010 to 2019, with his name appearing in Epstein files more than 900 times.
Axel won the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 2004 for research identifying genes that allow humans to detect more than 10,000 different smells.