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Campus & Community
Radcliffe honors news pioneers
Judy Woodruff and the late Gwen Ifill were honored with the 2017 Radcliffe Medal for their groundbreaking work in journalism.
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Campus & Community
Among the graduates
This 360 video puts you in the shoes of a Harvard student experiencing graduation as it unfolds.
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Campus & Community
Create a sense of purpose for all, Zuckerberg urges
One of Harvard’s most famous dropouts returned to receive a degree and encourage the Class of 2017 to go out and make a difference in the world.
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Campus & Community
Mark Zuckerberg’s Commencement address at Harvard
Mark Zuckerberg’s speech (as written) for Harvard’s 366th Commencement.
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Campus & Community
Revelry amid the raindrops
A full day of coverage from Harvard’s 366th Commencement.
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Campus & Community
‘When the law and conscience intersected’
Sally Yates, who President Trump fired as acting attorney general when she refused to enforce his tightened travel regulations, said Wednesday that she acted out of a belief that defending the executive order would have meant falsely claiming it was not directed at Muslims.
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Campus & Community
7,066 degrees and certificates awarded at Harvard’s 366th Commencement
Today the University awarded a total of 7,066 degrees and certificates.
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Campus & Community
Harvard awards 10 honorary degrees
Harvard’s Afternoon Program speaker Mark Zuckerberg will be among the 10 who will receive honorary degrees during the University’s 366th Commencement.
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Campus & Community
Before turning the tassel, a look back
From huge honors to technological breakthroughs, stunning triumphs to major milestones, the University in 2016–17 had much to celebrate.
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Campus & Community
Apathy not an option, Biden says
Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden tells College seniors to avoid apathy and help shape their nation, during Class Day speech in Harvard Yard.
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Campus & Community
3 alumni to receive Harvard Medal
The Harvard Alumni Association has announced that three alumni will receive the 2017 Harvard Medal.
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Campus & Community
A real sense of belonging
The incoming Harvard Alumni Association president aims to continue the people-centered leadership of her predecessor.
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Campus & Community
Departing as leaders
Six Harvard seniors received inducted into the armed forces at the annual ROTC commissioning ceremony.
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Arts & Culture
A concentration’s first growth spurt
As Harvard’s Theater, Dance & Media specialty turns 2 this spring, it graduates its first concentrators.
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Campus & Community
For graduate the numbers add up
Daniel Schlauch is looking to put his talents with numbers to work fighting cancer.
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Campus & Community
Centennial Medals awarded by GSAS
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences awards the Centennial Medal to four outstanding alumni whose contributions to knowledge, to their disciplines, to their colleagues, and to society have made a fundamental and lasting impact.
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Campus & Community
Announcing 2017-18 Radcliffe Institute Fellows
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study introduces its new class of fellows for 2017-18.
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Campus & Community
The bells are ringing
For the 29th consecutive year, neighboring churches and institutions will ring their bells at the conclusion of Harvard’s 366th Commencement Exercises.
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Campus & Community
Emerging challenges in digital higher ed
The team at Harvard’s Vice Provost for Advances in Learning Research hosted digital-learning practitioners from around the nation to discuss common challenges in their work.
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Campus & Community
The gift of the art of noticing
Graduating seniors gathered in the Memorial Church for the Baccalaureate Service, a tradition as old as Commencement.
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Campus & Community
At PBK ceremony, a call to empathy
Sherry Turkle was the orator during Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises Tuesday at Sanders Theatre. She was joined by poet and memoirist Mark Doty.
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Campus & Community
A Ugandan border official, redefined
Agnes Igoye brought her fight to end human trafficking from Uganda to Harvard’s Kennedy School.
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Campus & Community
Birth of a peaceful Europe
On June 5, 1947, Secretary of State George C. Marshall stood on the steps of Memorial Church and delivered an address that changed the world. The retired five-star general, credited during World War II with organizing the fastest and biggest military buildup in U.S. history, took just under 11 minutes to announce the creation of…
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Campus & Community
Meet the student orators
Three student orators, Auguste (Gussie) Roc, Jessica Glueck, and Walter Smelt III, were chosen in a speech-writing competition to address Harvard’s Class of 2017.
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Campus & Community
Being true to himself
Damon Clark ’17 will graduate with a greater knowledge of Navajo history and culture and a renewed pride in his indigenous identity.
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Campus & Community
Forging her path through different worlds
At Harvard Divinity School, Margaux Fitoussi explored migration as it echoed from her childhood and as it afflicts worlds far from hers.
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Campus & Community
Books on repeat
The Gazette asked a few Harvard faculty to talk about the book that they have reread the most and why they keep coming back.
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Campus & Community
2017 Election Results: Harvard Overseers and HAA Elected Directors
Harvard University today announced the results of the annual elections of new members to the Board of Overseers and of the Harvard Alumni Association Elected Directors.
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Campus & Community
Grants back study-abroad initiatives in Italy, Canada
Plans for immersive student experiences in Canada’s far north and in Italy received grants from the President’s Innovation Fund for International Experiences.
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Campus & Community
Seminal speeches through the years
An impressive range of orators have used the opportunity of delivering seminal speeches at Harvard, reaching not only those in attendance but the nation and sometimes the world.
