Year: 2016
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Campus & Community
Nine to receive honorary degrees
Nine to receive honorary degrees at Harvard’s 365th Commencement.
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Campus & Community
Advice for ‘the opposite of underdogs’
Between the laughs, actress and writer Rashida Jones ’97 counsels the Class of 2016 to break some rules, speak up, and choose love during the annual Class Day.
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Campus & Community
Inspired to serve, and lead
Twelve Harvard seniors were formally recognized as officers in the armed forces at the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps commissioning ceremony.
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Campus & Community
New member of Harvard Corporation
David Rubenstein will become a member of the Harvard Corporation next year.
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Science & Tech
The Sustainability Science Program at 10
The Sustainability Science Program celebrates its 10th birthday by welcoming back previous fellows to discuss progress in the field and the challenges ahead.
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Campus & Community
GSAS presents Centennial Medals
On May 25, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences awarded the Centennial Medal to four alumni who have made extraordinary contributions to society. The medal, GSAS’s highest honor, was first awarded in 1989 on the 100th anniversary of the School’s founding.
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Campus & Community
Tradition rings in the 365th Commencement
In celebration of the city of Cambridge and of the country’s oldest university, a number of neighboring churches and institutions ring their bells at the conclusion of Harvard’s 365th Commencement Exercises, for the 28th consecutive year.
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Campus & Community
‘Then, I wanted to run’
Navy SEAL veteran Dan Cnossen, severely wounded in Afghanistan, rebounded to graduate from the Kennedy School, and is bound for the Divinity School.
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Campus & Community
A goal of ‘telling your own story’
Graduating Harvard seniors gathered in the Memorial Church for a personal farewell and words of wisdom from President Drew Faust during the Baccalaureate Service.
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Nation & World
Teachings from the televangelist
Andover-Harvard Library receives archive from former Pentecostal televangelist.
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Campus & Community
From words to action
Stephen Greenblatt and Robyn Schiff were the featured speakers at the 2016 Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises.
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Campus & Community
Appetite for change
Tommy Tobin, set to graduate with degrees from the Law School and the Kennedy School, hopes to work on food policy.
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Campus & Community
HAA recognizes outstanding alums
The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) announced that Thomas G. Everett, Roger W. Ferguson Jr. ’73, A.M. ’78, J.D. ’79, Ph.D. ’81, John H. McArthur, M.B.A. ’59, D.B.A. ’63, and Betsey Bradley Urschel, Ed.M. ’63, will receive the 2016 Harvard Medal on May 26, during the Afternoon Program at Commencement.
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Campus & Community
The joys (and benefits) of movement
Erica Tukiainen used exercise to transform herself from a chubby kid to a collegiate basketball player. She wants to use lessons learned at the Harvard Chan School to help others add much-needed exercise to their lives.
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Campus & Community
Speaking from experience
Back in 1642, at Harvard’s first Commencement, the graduates — all nine of them — each had to deliver orations, defending their theses, in Latin, Greek, or Hebrew. Today, just…
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Arts & Culture
In anti-lynching plays, a coiled power
Magdalene “Maggie” Zier turned her senior thesis about anti-lynching plays into a live performance at Harvard Law School.
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Campus & Community
The arts in review
A look at the arts scene at Harvard during the 2015-16 academic year.
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Campus & Community
Five elected as Overseers
Five new members have been elected to the Harvard Board of Overseers.
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Campus & Community
The military-humanities connection
Recent graduates and students discuss how a revived ROTC program enriched their Harvard College experience and taught them more than they could have imagined.
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Campus & Community
Researching roots, aiming to teach
Soon to become a Fulbright scholar, Kapena Baptista ’16 finds histories in his heritage, and plans to teach.
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Campus & Community
The history of Harvard gates
A new book of text and photos outlines the individuality of the many entrances to Harvard Yard.
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Campus & Community
From Harvard to the NFL
NFL teams have signed five of Harvard’s graduating seniors.
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Health
A new platform for discovering antibiotics
Harvard chemists have created a platform for discovering antibiotics that they hope will shorten the time and difficulty involved in measuring their effectiveness, even as the body’s resistance to current antibiotics is rising.
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Campus & Community
Books of their youth
The Gazette asked a group of Harvard professors to talk about a book from their student days that has since gained in resonance or meaning.
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Campus & Community
Wrapping her mind around the past
Rivka B. Hyland ’16, an Islamic Studies concentrator who is proficient in eight languages, will continue her education at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar this fall.
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Science & Tech
RoboBees can perch to save energy
A RoboBee equipped with an electrode patch is supplied with a charge, allowing it to stick to almost any surface, from glass to wood to a leaf. The patch requires about 1,000 times less power to perch than it does to hover, extending the operational life of the robot.
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Health
Harvard licenses genotyping platform
Harvard University has granted a license to Aldatu Biosciences Inc., an early-stage diagnostics development company, for a novel genotyping platform that may help clinicians treating HIV to determine more quickly the most effective medication for each patient.
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Campus & Community
Seed capital for summer learning
Three new potential summer-abroad programs have been given seed funds from the President’s Innovation Fund for International Experiences, money intended to finance exploratory travel to meet potential partners, explore excursion destinations, and do the kind of on-the-ground investigation that underlies a successful summer course.
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Arts & Culture
Drawing power
“Drawings from the Age of Bruegel, Rubens, and Rembrandt” serves as an intimate study of art in progress.
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Campus & Community
Storied Irving Street paves way to history
Cambridge’s Irving Street has been the inspirational home to, among others, a famed psychologist, poet, chef, historian, chemist, and physicist.