The university warned students to hide in an alert late Saturday afternoon. A suspect was not in custody, university officials said, correcting an earlier posting.
The center at the university’s public health school was also a focus of the Trump administration after having been examined in a Harvard antisemitism report earlier this year.
The François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard’s public health school will have new leadership. An interim was named in the meantime.
The University of Michigan fired Sherrone Moore earlier in the day, an abrupt end to his career there, one of the highest profile jobs in college football.
As some lawmakers press U.S. universities to curtail ties with China, a postdoctoral student’s prosecution raises questions about how big the danger actually is.