Lawrence Summers, the controversial former U.S. Treasury Secretary and former Harvard University president, will step down from his faculty position at Harvard at the end of this academic year, as the fallout from his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein continues to reverberate in the public eye. “ “I have made the difficult decision to retire from my professorship at Harvard University,” Summers said in a statement on Wednesday. During the investigation into his relationship with Epstein, Summers stepped back from teaching duties late last year and resigned as director of Harvard’s Mosav-Rahmani Center for Business and Government.