Campus & Community
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‘Exploring everything’ leads to Rhodes
Fajr Khan to represent Pakistan, plans career in clinical psychology
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Setti Warren honored as lifelong public servant, remembered as bridge builder
Institute of Politics director, first elected Black mayor in Massachusetts ‘had superpower of knowing how to lift people up’
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Roger Owen, 83
Memorial Minute — Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Ralph Mitchell, 90
At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Nov. 4, 2025, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Ralph Mitchell was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty.
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To begin bridging campus divides: Just sit down together and listen
Three religious leaders offer insights from different traditions at Parents’ Weekend panel
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‘Designed to be different’: Harvard unveils David Rubenstein Treehouse
‘Visual connections,’ sustainability are key features of first University-wide conference center
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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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Departing as leaders
Six Harvard seniors received inducted into the armed forces at the annual ROTC commissioning ceremony.
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For graduate the numbers add up
Daniel Schlauch is looking to put his talents with numbers to work fighting cancer.
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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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Announcing 2017-18 Radcliffe Institute Fellows
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study introduces its new class of fellows for 2017-18.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 one of the largest and most successful international aid programs in history.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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Eduard Sekler, Carpenter Center’s inaugural director, dead at 96
Eduard Franz Sekler, an architecture historian and first director of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, has died. He was 96.
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Speaking the language of sympathy
Bennett Capozzi ’17, a History & Literature concentrator with a Language Citation in Arabic, will travel to Jordan to master the language he learned at Harvard.
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Stepping down and speaking up
In an interview with the Gazette, Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow reflects on her eight years leading the School.
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Learning to let it fly
In her last piece before graduating, student correspondent Amanda Beattie ’17 reflects on the lessons she and her friends have learned in their four years as Harvard undergraduates.
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Sanes receives Gruber Neuroscience Prize
Joshua R. Sanes, the Jeff C. Tarr Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and founding director of the Center for Brain Science, has been named recipient of the 2017 Gruber Neuroscience Prize.
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Afternoon of Engagement offered personal anecdotes, suggestions
The Presidential Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging’s campus-wide event provided questions, answers, and insight.
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‘There was just no way I was going to do what everyone else did’
Interview with Professor Pamela Silver as part of the Experience series.
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Making rhyme and reason speak for him
Obasi Shaw ’17, an English concentrator with a secondary on computer science, wrote a rap album for his senior creative writing thesis, a first at the Department of English.
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Moving the needle
Will Butler of the indie rock band Arcade Fire will graduate from Harvard Kennedy School’s midcareer master’s program with a goal of helping others.
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Inspired by physics and art
Julia Grotto ’17 combines art, science, and public service to paint a complete picture of her life at Harvard.
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Support that matters
The annual Celebration of Scholarships dinner brought together students who benefit from financial aid and donors who support the program.
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A call to do justice
A graduate of West Point, David E. White Jr., J.D. ’17, came to Harvard Law School after a tour in Afghanistan as a lieutenant and platoon leader. At the Law School, he honed his passions for leadership, public service, and justice.