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  • Faust emphasizes public service

    Concluding a year of expanded volunteer efforts at Harvard, president announces new fellowships that will allow students to do well by doing good.

  • Harvard Rituals: Class Day

    CNN international correspondent Christiane Amanpour addresses graduating seniors during Class Day ceremonies the day before Commencement.

  • Daily battle to improve health

    Harvard School of Public Health student Lyle Ignace hopes to use his experience as an American Indian physician and his new understanding of public health systems to make a difference in the Native American community.

  • ‘Remarkable teachers’

    Historian Maya Jasanoff and chemist Tobias Ritter are this year’s winners of the Roslyn Abramson Award, given annually to assistant or associate professors for excellence in undergraduate teaching.

  • Fighting modern slave trade

    Katherine Chon found her passion in opposing human trafficking worldwide, and her Kennedy School degree will provide new strategies for doing so.

  • Other notable 1950 graduates

    In the 60th Anniversary Report for the Class of 1950, where alumni update classmates on the happenings in their lives, a look at some other graduates of note.

  • Harvey Goldman

    Harvey Goldman, professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences and Technology, died on April 6, 2009, from complications of a hematologic disorder. Goldman was not only a master educator, but also an outstanding surgical pathologist and investigator in the field of gastrointestinal pathology.

  • Sparking a passion

    Four years ago, Melissa Tran ’10 didn’t want to leave California. Then she came to Harvard and found out what the world has to offer … and what she has to offer the world.

  • Harvard Theatre Collection Curator Fredric Woodbridge Wilson dies at 62

    Harvard Theatre Collection Curator Fredric Woodbridge Wilson died May 15 of pancreatic cancer.

  • Daniel Tosteson

    Daniel Charles Tosteson, former dean of the Harvard Faculty of Medicine and Caroline Shields Walker Distinguished Professor of Cell Biology, died on May 27, 2009, at the age of 84 after a long and courageous struggle with Parkinson’s disease. His 20-year leadership of the Harvard Medical Faculty was marked by innovation, change, and renewal. His imprint on the Medical School will be felt for generations to come.

  • Renaissance man

    A veteran Italian-American chef, Rosario Del Nero rediscovers the joys of learning at the Extension School, and wins an academic prize.

  • Around the Schools: Harvard Art Museum

    In 1962, American artist Mark Rothko painted five murals to display in a penthouse dining room in the then-new Holyoke Center on Mt. Auburn Street.

  • Two receive V.M. Setchkarev Memorial Prizes

    The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures recently awarded two V.M. Setchkarev Memorial Prizes of $500 at its spring reception this month (May).

  • From Ivy to military

    ROTC commissioning ceremony honors students for their “honor, courage, respect, and selfless service.”

  • Baccalaureate service 2010

    In her Baccalaureate Address, Harvard President Drew Faust encouraged seniors to embrace having unscripted lives.

  • Take your passport and go, Amanpour says

    International TV correspondent Christiane Amanpour urged Harvard College’s Class of 2010 to take time to work overseas, as she addressed Class Day ceremonies on May 26.

  • Commence wonderment

    Harvard’s foundation is built on years of traditions and Commencement offers a collection of the some of the most intriguing. Here’s the back story on today’s events.

  • Embracing the unscripted life

    In her Baccalaureate Address, Harvard President Drew Faust encouraged seniors to embrace having unscripted lives.

  • Intellect, rigor, tradition

    The Literary Exercises, Harvard’s Phi Beta Kappa tradition, honor 72 seniors for their achievements.

  • Phi Beta Kappa elects 99

    Ninety-nine seniors from the Class of 2010 were recently elected to the Harvard College chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (PBK), Alpha Iota of Massachusetts, in the senior final election on May 11.

  • Fostering a dream

    Kim Snodgrass’ childhood included 10 foster homes in six years. Today she walks away from the Graduate School of Education with a master’s, pointed toward a program that will help other foster children to thrive.

  • The man with a Commencement plan

    In the off-season, Jason Luke oversees a staff of 250 custodians and handles logistics and support for other Harvard events peppered throughout the academic year. But nothing compares Commencement.

  • Pumping up sports spirits

    The road to Harvard wasn’t an easy one for Cheng Ho ’10, who at 13 came to America from Taiwan after losing his father to cancer while his mother struggled with mental illness. And then there was football to learn …

  • Poetry on ice, paper

    Loren Galler Rabinowitz ’10 used her creativity, intelligence, and drive to evolve from professional skating to Harvard, and soon to medical school.

  • Leading the way

    In a series of profiles, Gazette writers showcase some of these stellar graduates, including Lahiru Jayatilaka, who as a young computer whiz learned a lasting lesson about the importance of precision.

  • Radcliffe Institute awards Captain Jonathan Fay Prize to Diana C. Wise

    The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has awarded its 2010 Captain Jonathan Fay Prize to Diana C. Wise, a Harvard senior concentrating in history and literature.

  • Hardened Arteries, Elderly Falls Linked

    A stiffening of the aging brain’s blood vessels reduces their ability to respond to changes in blood pressure, increasing the risk of falls by as much as 70% according to a neurologist at Harvard Medical School

  • Trudeau Foundation awards scholarship to Lisa Kelly of HLS

    Lisa Kelly, a doctoral candidate at Harvard Law School (HLS), has been named one of 15 recipients of the 2010 Trudeau Foundation Scholarships, presented by the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation.

  • Moving toward financial health

    FAS continues to make progress in cutting deficit, now forecasting it at $50 million to $55 million for the coming fiscal year.

  • Michael W. Shannon

    Michael Shannon, the first African-American full professor of pediatrics in Harvard Medical School’s history, died on March 10, 2009, at the age of 55. At Children’s Hospital Boston, Shannon directed the largest pediatric emergency medicine fellowship program in the country and trained subsequent leaders in toxicology and emergency medicine.