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Campus & Community
Moments that make Commencement
After weeks of rain and cold, Harvard ended the 2010-11 year on a postcard-perfect day of azure skies and warming breezes. Most of the focus was on the speeches and rituals of Tercentenary Theatre, of course. But all across Harvard Yard, where graduating students, faculty, families, and friends gathered, there were thousands of magical moments…
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Campus & Community
Overseers 2011 election results
The president of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) today (May 26) announced the results of the annual election of new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers. The results were released at the annual meeting of the association following the University’s 360th Commencement.
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Campus & Community
Text of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s speech
H.E. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of the Republic of Liberia, delivered her address at the Afternoon Exercises at Harvard’s 360th Commencement on May 26, 2011.
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Nation & World
Accompanying the underserved
“The road from policy development to implementation is usually long and rocky, one that must be trod with companions,” Paul Farmer, University Professor and co-founder of Partners In Health, told Harvard Kennedy School graduates on May 25.
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Campus & Community
Degrees, certificates awarded
Today the University awarded a total of 7,147 degrees and 70 certificates. Harvard College granted a total of 1,556 degrees.
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Campus & Community
CES announces student grant winners
The Center for European Studies has announced its 2011-12 student grant winners, continuing its long tradition of promoting and funding student research on political, historical, economic, social, cultural, and intellectual trends in modern or contemporary Europe.
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Campus & Community
John Lemuel Bethune
John Lemuel Bethune received his Ph.D. in 1961 and moved to Boston and Harvard Medical School to join the Biophysics Research Laboratory under the direction of Bert Vallee and located in the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.
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Campus & Community
Asia Center to support summer travel for 68 students
The Harvard University Asia Center was established in 1997 to reflect Harvard’s deep commitment to Asia and the growing connections between Asian nations.
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Campus & Community
South Asia Initiative
Since its inception in 2003, the South Asia Initiative continues the long tradition of collaboration between Harvard and South Asia’s nations.
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Campus & Community
Strong voices
The Radcliffe Institute on May 27 will honor Ela Bhatt, founder of the Self Employed Women’s Association of India, with the Radcliffe Institute Medal. Bhatt’s organization has improved the self-sufficiency of more than a million women.
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Campus & Community
A lifelong learner
When Ethel Stafford halted her education to raise her children, she didn’t shed tears. She knew she would return to her studies. At age 60, she graduates from the Extension School with a bachelor’s and plans for a new career.
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Campus & Community
Speaking for their class, to the world
Two Harvard College seniors and a Harvard Kennedy School student carry on the tradition of Commencement orations, given in English and in Latin.
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Campus & Community
Thoughtful leadership
Marcel Moran ’11 of Eliot House and Annie Douglas ’12 of Adams House have been named this year’s David and Mimi Aloian Memorial Scholars.
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Campus & Community
Center for Jewish Studies awards seniors
The Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University has announced the recipients of the 2011 Norman Podhoretz Prize in Jewish Studies and the 2011 Selma and Lewis Weinstein Prize in Jewish Studies.
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Campus & Community
Two colleges, quiet times
Harvard and Radcliffe were very different places 50 years ago, but the bonds that tie members of the Class of ’61 to Cambridge remain strong.
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Campus & Community
A degree delivered
Harvard awards degree to Native American who completed studies in 1665 but died before Commencement.
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Campus & Community
Miller wins Radcliffe’s Fay Prize
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has named Matthew Smith Miller winner of the 2011 Captain Jonathan Fay Prize for his interdisciplinary work and extensive research on his thesis, “Surely His Mother Mourns for Him: Africans on Exhibition in Boston and New York, 1860-1861.”
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Campus & Community
Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies supports student research and travel in Japan
Founded in 1973, the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies (RI) promotes research on Japan and brings together Harvard faculty, students, leading scholars from other institutions, and visitors to create one of the world’s leading communities for the study of Japan.
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Campus & Community
Keeping connected
Robert R. Bowie Jr. ’73 will conclude his tenure as Harvard Alumni Association president, welcoming incoming President Ellen Gordon Reeves ’83, Ed.M. ’86. Reeves said she hopes to expand on Bowie’s networking theme over the course of her tenure.
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Campus & Community
Tunnel vision
At Adams House, a tradition thrives as students annually paint art in the passageways.
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Campus & Community
Bringing up the rear
Mike Lichten, FAS associate dean for physical resources and planning, has shepherded graduating seniors through Commencement exercises for a quarter century.
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Nation & World
Why the immigrants come
Sociology professor analyzes data, learns that groups slip across U.S. border for varied reasons.
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Campus & Community
Inspired by impact
Motivated by the collective impact of their gifts, alumni are giving immediate use funds to support the Harvard experience today and in the future. Harvard’s newest alumni were the first to reach their participation milestone with a record-breaking Senior Gift Campaign, achieving an 82 percent participation rate.
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Campus & Community
Harvard awards 9 honorary degrees
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who was selected to speak during the Afternoon Exercises, is among the nine to receive honorary degrees, which includes Ruth Bader Ginsburg (pictured), during Harvard’s 360th Commencement on May 26.
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Campus & Community
It was a very good year
With its 360th Commencement, another chapter in Harvard’s history draws to a close, as marked by highlights from this year. Reinstallation of ROTC, ongoing innovation in science and humanities, and Wynton Marsalis at Harvard top off some of the year’s historical benchmarks.
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Campus & Community
HBS students win Dean’s Award for service
Four members of the Harvard Business School M.B.A. Class of 2011 have been named winners of the School’s prestigious Dean’s Award.
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Arts & Culture
The one, indispensable book
A handful of authors featured in Harvard Bound over the past year answer the question: What is an essential book for today’s graduates — and why? Here are their suggestions as the newest Harvard degree-holders head out into the world.
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Campus & Community
Fairbank Center for Chinese studies aids student research
The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies supports and promotes advanced research and training in all fields of Chinese studies. The center collaborates with the Harvard University Asia Center to offer undergraduate and graduate student grants for Chinese language study and research travel.
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Campus & Community
Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics announces fellows
The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics has announced its Edmond J. Safra Lab and Network Fellows and Edmond J. Safra Graduate Fellows in Ethics.
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Science & Tech
A school telescope, through the Internet
Astronomy Professor Alyssa Goodman is helping to bring astronomy to area schools, founding an “ambassador” program that combines with new software to provide an interface on the universe for students and researchers alike.
