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  • 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.

  • Science for the young set

    Harvard hosts students from two Boston schools for some grounding in the importance and attraction of basic science.

  • By the numbers

    Keeping Harvard fed is a mammoth logistical effort, almost a military operation. The 12 University-owned restaurants, 13 dining halls, and many catered events now serve about 26,000 meals a day — about 5 million a year. The numbers tell the story.

  • Q&A with Kathryn Hollar

    Kathryn Hollar, a chemical engineer by training, is director of educational programs at the Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, where she teaches a program called “science for K to gray.”

  • National Academy of Sciences awards honor to nine from Harvard

    Nine Harvard faculty members are among 72 newly elected National Academy of Sciences members and 18 foreign associates chosen in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

  • Faculty of Arts and Sciences announces 2010-11 full professors

    The following faculty members have been named full professors with tenure in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences: Stephen Burt, Peter Der Manuelian, David Howell, Martin Puchner, and Gu-Yeon Wei.

  • Women’s tennis claims NCAA at-large bid

    Classes are over, but the season isn’t for the Harvard women’s tennis team, which received an at-large bid from the NCAA Division I Tennis Subcommittee.

  • Houghton Library presents Hofer Prize

    The Houghton Library recently awarded the 2010 Philip Hofer Prize for Collecting Books or Art to five Harvard graduate students.

  • Return to Harvard Day

    Beyond touring the campus, sampling public service programs, and attending courses and colloquiums, Return to Harvard Day was about reimmersion into the fabric of everyday life in the Harvard community for 250 alumni and alumnae.

  • Peter Emanuel Sifneos

    Peter Emanuel Sifneos, professor emeritus of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, died at his home in Belmont on Dec. 9, 2008, at the age of 88. He was an internationally renowned pioneer in the areas of short-term psychotherapy and psychosomatic medicine.

  • Harvard Foundation recognizes students, faculty, race relations

    Forty-five students, two race relations tutors, and a distinguished faculty member were honored by the Harvard Foundation for exceptional contributions to improving intercultural and race relations at Harvard College on April 30, as part of the annual Harvard Foundation Student/Faculty Awards Ceremony and Aloian Memorial Dinner, held in Quincy House.

  • Edward M. Gramlich Fellowship announces two winners for 2010

    The Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies and NeighborWorks America are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2010 Edward M. Gramlich Fellowship in Community and Economic Development, Abigail Pound and Eduardo Andres Berlin Razmilic.

  • Softball team falls to Cornell in Ivy League Championship final, 3-2

    It was a fight to the finish for the Harvard softball team, but that wasn’t enough for the Crimson as the Cornell Big Red defeated Harvard on May 8, 3-2, to earn the 2010 Ivy League Championship.

  • Sit a spell, and pass the sweet tea

    A Southern student reflects on what his expectations were, and how the reality differed, when he moved to Cambridge from Arkansas to attend Harvard.