Tag: 368th Commencement
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Heading to Hungary to study and help
Sara Bobok returns repeatedly to her native Hungary, where she’ll next study sex trafficking, aiming to make an impact on the country’s young people.
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Focusing on people and place
Alice Hill will be the first Australian and the first Canadian to lead the HAA, as well as the first from the Asia Pacific region. She plans to bring those perspectives to the table as president.
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Best in high gear
While she was earning a master’s at HGSE, Nicole Johnson worked four jobs, was vice president of the HGSE Student Council, and won the Miss Massachusetts International Pageant.
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Inviting the community into design, decisions
In England, Rhodes Scholar Brittany Ellis will continue to promote collaboration between museums and communities in curatorial decision-making.
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Searching for answers in what lemurs leave behind
Harvard College senior Camille DeSisto’s love of the environment took her around the world to Madagascar’s tropical forests.
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Mistaken identities
Both graduating this May, the two Cat Zhangs weigh in on four years of being confused with each other and the respective legacies they leave behind.
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Theater stages and thesis pages
La’Toya Princess Jackson’s thesis, “Black Swans Shattering the Glass Ceiling,” focuses on African American contributions to ballet.
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Lab success, life goals
Dalton Brunson’s biology studies have led him to labs, research, and successes that he hopes keep him ever mindful of his commitment to expanding health care in rural areas.
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Schuyler Bailar races toward his authentic self
Schuyler Bailar ’19 is the first openly transgender swimmer in the National Collegiate Athletic Association and a member of the Harvard men’s swimming team.
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Songwriter carries more than one tune
Nima Samimi, recipient of a degree in Middle Eastern Studies, is a jack of all trades and a master of at least a few, including academics, music, and social justice.
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A long road, well chronicled
Denise-Marie Ordway, with a large family and impressive resumé, excels as Nieman Fellow, HGSE master’s candidate
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Overcoming the odds
Onege Maroadi graduates from the Harvard Extension School with a master’s degree in international relations, a clean bill of health after fighting stage 3 cancer, a plan to help the world become a more peaceful place, and a happy toddler at home. But she almost didn’t make it to Cambridge.
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Al Gore named Class Day speaker
Al Gore has been chosen to speak on Class Day, the day before Harvard’s 368th Commencement. The former vice president, a Nobel Prize laureate and Harvard alumnus, has had a long career in public service and since leaving office has devoted his life to raising awareness of the threat of climate change.
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Adjusting the flight plan
Jake Moore will add a degree from the Kennedy School to the medals and commendations he has earned over 15 years in the Navy. His post-military target is human rights work with refugees and asylum seekers.
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The flourishing of Genesis
Genesis De Los Santos grew up in Dorchester and credits her community’s support for her unlikely journey from a neighborhood school to a private middle school academy to an elite high school and then to Harvard.
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At WHRB, Harvard student turns on radio and tunes in listeners
Henna Hundal ’19 works as interviewer on her own radio show on Harvard’s WHRB, bringing the larger world to her listening audience.
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Rising to the challenge
MacLean Sarbah, M.A. ’19, hopes to return home to help take on one of Ghana’s biggest social problems: youth unemployment.
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Tracy K. Smith elected chief marshal
U.S. poet laureate Tracy K. Smith ’94 has been elected by her classmates to serve as chief marshal of the alumni at Harvard’s 368th Commencement on May 30.
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Harvard’s 368th Commencement set for May 30
Guidelines for Harvard’s 368th Commencement Exercises include additional security measures.
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Merkel named Harvard Commencement speaker
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will be the principal speaker at the Afternoon Program of Harvard’s 368th Commencement.