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Gazette reporters Ken Gewertz, Beth Potier, and Alvin Powell roamed through Commencement Day, eyes, ears, and notebooks open. Some of their observations follow.

Photos from the 350th Commencement ceremonies at Harard University

Having ridden his political fortunes from the Holbrook Town Planning Board to the Massachusetts state legislature to Washington, D.C., White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card knows a thing or two about public service. Card shared many of those lessons during an inspirational Class Day address to Kennedy School graduates and their parents on Wednesday,…

At the Radcliffe Associations annual luncheon on Friday, June 8, Madeleine Albright provided the star-power, but she shared the spotlight with womens education, womens advancement, and the new role of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Seeking to make online information open to everyone, Harvard has embarked on a program to make Web sites accessible to the visually impaired.

John Kenneth Galbraith has received Indias second highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan, comparable in importance to the U.S. Congressional Medal of Freedom.

Lawrence H. Summers will be officially installed as Harvards 27th president on Friday, Oct. 12, in an outdoor ceremony in Tercentenary Theatre.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending June 9. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St. June 3: A wallet was reported stolen at Lowell House. June 4: A bicycle was reported stolen at 24 Oxford St. June 5: An…

June 1, 1774 – Several parliamentary punishments for the Boston Tea Party (December 1773) take effect, and British troops occupy Boston. “[C]onsidering the present dark aspect of our public Affairs,” the Harvard Corporation votes “that there be no public Commencement this Year.” Ceremonies do not resume until 1781.  June 25, 1825 – After much deliberation…

Harvard University announced June 28 the establishment of a new interdisciplinary Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC), based at Harvard Business School and directed by Michael E. Porter.

One of nature’s best shows features the signals that fireflies exchange as they search for mates on warm summer nights. Few people can watch it without wondering how the little bugs turn their belly lanterns on and off so quickly.

The coldest place in the universe is not millions of miles away in a dark corner of outer space but in an exotic laboratory in Cambridge, Mass. It’s a place where Harvard University researchers are slowing and compressing light and probing exotic states of matter.

The Davis Center for Russian Studies has announced the recipients of fellowship, dissertation, and research travel awards for 2001-02.

After finishing high school in her native Greece, Marina Gerolimatos spent several years studying cosmetology near Athens, then earning a scholarship to study the profession in Paris. While her siblings left for the United States, she finished her studies in Paris and went back to Greece, near her mother, to open what became a successful…

Under the auspices of the Alumni Association of Phillips Brooks House Association, nine students are interning this summer at not-for-profit organizations and one government agency. The host agency is paying each intern’s salary, except for two students who are receiving work study funding.

As a 10-year-old child visiting a historical society in Cabot, Vt., Sarah Anne Carter was fascinated by two small dolls dressed in plain black, lying in wooden coffins. Carter has wondered ever since about who played with those dolls and why. Now a history concentrator in the Harvard College Class of 2002, she is answering…

The University has announced this year’s Harvard Housing Innovations Program (HHIP) grant winners. The awards ceremony took place on Friday, June 8, at the Business School. These awards are the second of two rounds of HHIP grants established as part of Harvard’s 20/20/2000 affordable housing initiatives. At the June 8 ceremony, leaders of housing nonprofits,…

Institute for Advanced Theatre Training names new director The American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) has announced that Hungarian theater and film director János Szász has been appointed director of the A.R.T Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard. Szász replaces François Rochiax, who is leaving his post after five years to take over the artistic directorship…

James Cuno, the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard University Art Museums, has been elected president of the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD).