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HBS Celebrates 115th Commencement
Harvard Business School (HBS) held its 115th Commencement exercises Thursday with a diploma ceremony on its campus in Boston. After an all-University celebration in Harvard’s Tercentenary Theatre in the morning,…

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HBS professors receive Wyss Awards for Excellence in Mentoring Doctoral Students
Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced the recipients of the 2025 Wyss Awards for Excellence in Mentoring Doctoral Students. Professor Elie Ofek and Assistant Professor Maria Roche have been selected for their work in…

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Harvard Business School’s MBA Class of 2025 celebrates Class Day
All 929 members of the Harvard Business School (HBS) MBA Class of 2025 gathered at Baker Lawn under clear skies to celebrate Class Day on Wednesday. Taking place the day…

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Mossavar-Rahmani Center announces 2025 Dunlop Undergraduate Thesis Prize winner
The Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (M-RCBG) at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government is pleased to announce the 2025 winner of the John T. Dunlop Undergraduate Thesis Prize in…

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Four Business School faculty receive Class of 2025 Faculty Teaching Award honors
Students from the Harvard Business School graduating Class of 2025 honored four faculty members with Faculty Teaching Awards. Rawi Abdelal, Edward (Ted) Berk, Meg Rithmire, and Andy Wu were recognized…

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James Bedford wins Dean’s Award for service to the School and society
James Bedford, from the Harvard Business School’s M.B.A. Class of 2025, has been named the recipient of the Dean’s Award. This prestigious award celebrates the extraordinary achievements of a graduating…

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Harvard Business School announces 2025-2026 Leadership Fellows
Harvard Business School has announced the 2025-2026 cohort of its Leadership Fellows Program. The program is based on University Professor Michael Porter’s vision of developing a network of HBS graduates with…

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Harvard leaders receive Inspire Awards
Two Harvard leaders, Caroline Fernald, executive director of the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture, and Carrie Moore, the Kathy Delaney-Smith Head Coach For Harvard Women’s Basketball, were honored by…

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Jessica Stern appointed senior fellow at Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights
The Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights at the Harvard Kennedy School is proud to announce the appointment of Jessica Stern as senior fellow. She will be the first senior fellow…

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Tarun Khanna leaves lasting legacy on India and South Asia at Harvard
When Tarun Khanna took over the South Asia Initiative 15 years ago, there was one staff member, a small office in CGIS South, and almost no faculty involvement from around…

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Diana L. Eck named next director of Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute
John F. Manning and Hopi H. Hoekstra announced earlier this year that Diana L. Eck, professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, Emerita, and Frederic Wertham Research Professor of Law…

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HBS, HKS professors win award for best health economics paper
Marcella Alsan, Joshua Schwartzstein, and their co-authors have been honored with the Arrow Award for their paper, “Representation and Extrapolation: Evidence from Clinical Trials.”

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Get to know HBS Class Day student speaker Chris Hood
Chris Hood, M.B.A. ’25, has been selected as the student speaker for Harvard Business School’s (HBS) Class Day celebration on May 28. Class Day honors graduating students and typically takes…

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From saints to serpents: HDS students win 2025 Buechner Prize
As the academic year comes to a close, Harvard Divinity School (HDS) announces that Tess Dufrechou, M.Div. ’25, and Kat Woodard, M.Div. ’25, have received the 2025 Frederick Buechner Prize.…

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With ‘Lunch and Learn,’ Kempner offers new forum for collaboration
Kempner Research Fellow Ilenna Jones studies dendrites, exploring how the computational properties of these structures in biological neurons can contribute to the next generation of brain-inspired AI. Alongside this research…

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EdRedesign announces second cohort of By All Means Senior Fellows
EdRedesign, based at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), is proud to announce the second cohort of By All Means Senior Fellows, a visiting fellowship initiative launched in 2023…

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Sanes elected to Royal Society
Joshua Sanes, the Jeff C. Tarr Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society, one of the oldest and most esteemed scientific bodies…

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Stuart Schreiber receives 2025 Welch Award
Stuart L. Schreiber, Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Emeritus will be a co-recipient of the 2025 Robert A. Welch Award in Chemistry for his research in the…

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Hutchins Center announces 13th class of W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute Fellows
Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, has announced the…

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Pivotal role of reinforcement learning in modern large language models
The explosion of modern AI, exemplified by the unprecedented abilities of large language models (LLMs), was enabled by a family of computational techniques known as machine learning (ML). But how…

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Davis Center panelists discuss cultural memory in Ukraine after years of Russian denial
In the 1920s, Volodymyr Vynnychenko had just arrived in France when a police representative, handing the Ukrainian writer his right-of-residence papers, stated that Ukraine “n’existe pas” in the eyes of…

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Kathleen Coleman awarded new Faculty Prize for Excellence in General Education
Harvard’s Program in General Education has awarded the inaugural Faculty Prize for Excellence in General Education to James Loeb Professor of Classics Kathleen Coleman for her course Gen Ed 1131:…

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25 Allston-Brighton nonprofits receive Harvard Allston Partnership Fund grants
In a gathering at the Harvard Ed Portal last week, University leaders, including President Alan Garber and Executive Vice President Meredith Weenick, joined Kairos Shen, chief of planning for the…

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Thomas T. Hoopes Prize awarded to 71 students
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences has awarded the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize to 71 Harvard College seniors, in recognition of outstanding research or scholarly work. The prize is funded by the…

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In memoriam: William W. Robinson, respected drawings curator and dedicated mentor
William W. Robinson, the Maida and George Abrams curator of drawings, emeritus, at the Harvard Art Museums, a leading authority on northern European drawings, has passed away at the age…

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Pluralism at Harvard and ‘Abraham’s Bridge’ screening
The Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations and the Pluralism Project hosted the Harvard premiere of the award-winning short film on interfaith collaboration, “Abraham’s Bridge,” directed by Pluralism Project…

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CCB honors undergraduate research and celebrates Richard ‘Dick’ Holm
Harvard’s Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology hosted its third annual undergraduate research symposium, showcasing its undergraduates’ state-of-the-art research projects and honoring the historic contributions of CCB professor and renowned…

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Spring series at HDS explores ‘love’ across difference
This spring semester, the Harvard Divinity School community explored the ways love is understood and practiced across different faith traditions. Building on the conversations that took place during the 2023-24…

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Two Harvard students named 2025 Hertz Fellows
Harvard College senior Soy Choi and Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences student Ananthan Sadagopan were among the 19 recipients of the 2025 Hertz Fellowship in…

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On cellular complexity and the future of biological intelligence: Q&A with Sam Gershman
What is the logic underlying human and animal intelligence? This is the motivating question behind the research of Samuel J. Gershman, a Kempner Institute associate faculty member and professor in…
