A joyous peal of bells will ring throughout Cambridge today (June 8). In celebration of the city of Cambridge and of the countrys oldest university – and of our earlier history when bells of varying tones summoned us from sleep to prayer, work, or study – this ancient yet new sound will fill Harvard Square and the surrounding area with music when a number of neighboring churches and institutions ring out at the conclusion of Harvards 355th Commencement Exercises.
Joy Seth Hurd IV speaks fluent Latin. Martin Spencer Bell has his sights set on being a trial lawyer. Liz Carlisle is a country singer/songwriter with an album on record store shelves. Though these graduating Harvard students may seem very different, they all have something in common: On Commencement Day, each will take the stage of Tercentenary Theatre and deliver the speech of a lifetime to an international audience of more than 30,000.
Normally, ROTC cadets are officially sworn in to the U.S. armed services in front of the statue of John Harvard before moving on to a more formal ceremony in the Yards Tercentenary Theatre. But the 2006 class gathered instead under the tent covering the theater stage, looking out onto a sea of puddled white chairs as the bronze figure in front of University Hall sat alone and drenched hoping, perhaps, for a sunnier afternoon.
Sarah Billmeier got off to a good start in competitive skiing, winning a gold medal in a world championship race in France at age 14. By the time she was 25, she was a six-time world champion and had won 13 Olympic medals. In 2002, she put aside her skis to enter Harvard Medical School. Today (June 8), four days before her 29th birthday, she becomes Sarah Billmeier, M.D., with the intent of specializing in surgery.
When Elizabeth McNeil was asked to suggest a place to meet to talk about what its like to be graduating from the Harvard Extension School at 82, she had an immediate answer: the Everett Public Library.
Down to earth is the phrase that is probably most often used to describe David Wax. Most people dont mean it literally, but considering Waxs background, it is particularly apt.
The tour begins in the research and development area. Pinned to the wall, a large sheet of white graph paper is inscribed with neatly arranged ink drawings of … well, things. Some look like scissors or Swiss Army knives, others like deformed sandwich cookies or mutant hotdogs.
Elias Mudzuri knows he has a fight ahead of him when he returns to his native Zimbabwe after graduating from the John F. Kennedy School of Government in June.
Hockey goaltenders tend to be a stoic bunch. When not deflecting whats thrown at them, this rare breed of athlete sits nestled in a cage for 60 minutes at a time, waiting. Even their massive padding and that plain and frightful mask lend a level of anonymity and coolness absent in high-scoring, fist-pumping forwards.
For your average college senior, 20 years is literally a lifetime. Its also about the same amount of time it took fifth-generation Montanan David Cromwell 06 of the Harvard swimming and diving team to realize he actually enjoyed the aquatic life.
Drew Gilpin Faust, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and Lincoln Professor of History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has announced the names of 37 women and 13 men selected to be 2006 – 07 Radcliffe Fellows. At the institute, the fellows – among them 16 humanists, 14 scientists, 10 creative artists, and 10 social scientists, working on projects ranging from a study of integrated intelligence in robotics to a biography of Nathaniel Hawthornes sister – will work individually and across disciplines on projects chosen for both quality and long-term impact.
This year the Harvard Extension School will have three Commencement ceremonies: one for undergraduate degrees, one for graduate degrees, and one for graduate certificates. The Undergraduate Commencement Speaker Award goes to Siza Mtimbiri, A.L.B., who will speak on the topic A Walk to Remember. The Graduate Commencement Speaker Award goes to Daniel E. Levenson, A.L.M., whose talk is titled The Transforming Extension School Experience. The main address at the graduate certificate ceremonies, titled The Road to Success, will be delivered by Myra S. White, research associate in psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and chief executive officer, Work Intelligence Inc.
Today the University awarded a total of 6,706 degrees and 248 certificates. A breakdown of the degrees by schools and programs follows. Harvard College granted a total of 1,641 degrees.
Lawrence H. Summers announced on Feb. 21, 2006, that he will conclude his tenure as president of Harvard at the end of the 2005-2006 academic year. After a period of sabbatical and reflection, he will return to teaching and research as a University Professor.
Lawrence H. Summers announced on Feb. 21, 2006, that he will conclude his tenure as president of Harvard at the end of the 2005-2006 academic year. After a period of sabbatical and reflection, he will return to teaching and research as a University Professor.
Lawrence H. Summers announced on Feb. 21, 2006, that he will conclude his tenure as president of Harvard at the end of the 2005-2006 academic year. After a period of sabbatical and reflection, he will return to teaching and research as a University Professor.
Archaeobotanists have found evidence that the dawn of agriculture may have come with the domestication of fig trees in the Near East some 11,400 years ago, roughly 1,000 years before…
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The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has named Harvard one of 50 universities nationwide to receive grants ranging from $1.5 million to $2.2 million for bold and innovative undergraduate science education programs.
An ethicist whose work has had a major impact on medical policy, an astronomer who uncovers secrets of distant galaxies, a Nobel Prize-winning economist who has proposed challenging theories of economic growth, and a writer whose many books have established him as the foremost historian of California received the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal on Wednesday (June 7) at the Harvard Faculty Club.
With their Commencement, students will go forth to press on to higher and better things – at all events, to other things, as Nathaniel Hawthorne once put it. But students arent the only ones planning new projects or looking forward to relaxing in a shady hammock – or both, simultaneously. Professors, too, are embarking on fresh adventures, as the following brief interviews show.
The Universitys plans for a 21st century extension of its campus in Allston took more definite shape this year with the selection of a site and architect for a half-million-square-foot science complex, as well as the announcement of plans for new arts and culture facilities.
Continuing its long tradition of promoting and funding student research in Europe, the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) has announced that 40 undergraduates will pursue thesis research and internships on the continent this summer, while more than two dozen graduate students have been awarded support for their dissertations over the coming year.
Who would have thought the purchase of six Chinese silk handkerchiefs would change Harvard’s athletic history? Benjamin W. Crowninshield, Class of 1858, kept a journal through his junior and senior years at Harvard and it demonstrates two diverse truths about life – that “the more things change, the more they stay the same” and “you never know what’s going to happen next.” Crowninshield had brushes with history that he never anticipated.
With evolution under attack, policymakers blind to scientific consensus on global warming, and faith-based terrorists roiling international peace, Harvards graduating seniors must make their voices heard as people of reason, Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers said Tuesday (June 6).
Harvard senior Prashant Sharma thought he wanted to study molecular and cellular biology when he arrived at Harvard four years ago, but the mysteries of evolutionary biology drew him away.
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