Harvard professor suspended after Epstein ties exposed
A Harvard mathematics professor was placed on administrative leave after his Epstein ties were exposed just hours after former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers resigned from teaching at the college due to his own links.
Martin Nowak, 60, was suspended following an investigation into his relationship with Epstein, according to a letter to the professor obtained by the Harvard Crimson.
The decision comes after prominent economist Summers stepped away from the Ivy university amid reports about his honeymoon trip to Epstein's island, commonly known as ‘[expletive] Island’.
Harvard Magazine obtained a letter to students and faculty noting that Nowak will have reduced access to undergraduate and postdoctoral students for at least two years and will be banned from beginning research projects.
A decade of access
Additionally, the university is shutting down the professor's Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, which Epstein once donated $6.5million in cash, according to the outlet.
The enormous donation was the largest of the $9.1million in total gifts Epstein donated to the University during that period, according to the magazine.
Nowak's relationship with Epstein was uncovered in a 2020 report which detailed alleged ties with the offender for over a decade, beginning in 1998.
The report also discovered that Epstein had a key card with unlimited access to Harvard's Program for Evolutionary Dynamics even after his 2008 conviction for procuring a child for [adult work].
In 2021, the university deemed that Nowak violated the school's code of conduct and closed his program until those sanctions were lifted in 2023, according to The Crimson.
The Daily Mail has reached out to Nowak for comment.
A 50-year tenure ends
The fallout comes as scrutiny has grown around former Harvard president Summers and his relationship with Epstein.
Summers, who maintained a personal friendship with the disgraced financier, will give up his title of University Professor, the highest academic title at Harvard.
The university stated that he will resign from his teaching roles at the end of this academic year.
Summers has been on leave since November 2025 and will step away as Harvard investigates the documents related to Epstein which were released by the Department of Justice in January.
Long before the arrest
Summers and his wife, Lisa New, visited Epstein’s island in December 2005, ten days after their wedding.
According to flight logs, the honeymoon occurred while Summers was still serving as Harvard's president.
A spokesperson for Summers previously said: 'Mr. Summers and Ms. New spent their honeymoon in St. John and Jamaica in December 2005, which was long before Mr. Epstein was arrested for the first time.'
Epstein died in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal trafficking charges.
The Daily Mail has reached out to Harvard for comment.
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All the evidence linking America's elite universities to Epstein
The messages of support to a friend in need were touching, their senders - the leaders of America’s most storied universities and arts institutions - exemplifying the liberal values for which they stand.
If only the recipient hadn’t been Jeffrey Epstein, and the plight for which they were consoling him his exposure as a child sexual offender.
The financier’s deep connections with two of America’s most prestigious universities, Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), emerged shortly after he died in a New York jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial for trafficking offenses.
And yet those connections were far from the end of the story - as has been revealed in the latest huge tranche of documents to be released from the Department of Justice’s Epstein files.
They provide new pain for an academic world - and particularly the elite universities on which the egotistical Epstein concentrated his attention - which is still struggling with scandals over the treatment of Jewish students, left-wing bias and suppression of free speech.
And it’s not causing just pain but enormous embarrassment. For what can be more hypocritical than for the same institutions that are fixated on a woke agenda of ‘decolonizing’ the curriculum, safe spaces, preferred pronouns and mandatory ‘privilege’ training, to be exposed for toadying to the most infamous sexual predators of modern times?
Academics who’ve long insisted that they only became involved with Epstein through fund-raising - that they associated with him only because they wanted him to open his pocketbook -are now back-pedalling madly.
Heads are starting to roll once more as they did in 2019 when MIT’s Media Lab director, Joi Ito, resigned after it emerged his staff had tried to conceal its financial ties to Epstein.
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