The Harvard Gazette

Commencement 2012

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Seamus Heaney, who died Aug. 30, had close ties to Harvard. During the 2012 Commencement, Heaney read a poem he'd written for Harvard (photo 1). In 2000, he attended a portrait unveiling in his honor at Lamont Library (photo 2). In December 1984, the Gazette published the announcement of Heaney being named Harvard's Boylston Professor (photo 3).

Heaney’s death caught ‘the heart off guard’

Noted Irish poet had long and deep ties to Harvard

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DateAugust 30, 2013June 19, 2019

Two years ago, Andrew Rosenthal arrived at Harvard Business School, not from the world of consulting or finance, but fresh off the implosion of his first online business venture. He wasn’t looking for a ticket to a Fortune 500 firm. “I came here because I wanted to build things,” said Rosenthal, 28. “And I didn’t want to wait until I left to do it.”

An enterprising mind

Rosenthal brought contagious energy to HBS startup scene

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DateMay 25, 2012

Fareed Zakaria Commencement 2012 Speech

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DateMay 25, 2012

“I really appreciate being exposed to an environment with a lot of expertise, a lot of people who really understand public health problems,” said Pedrag Stojicic, who was just another physician in Serbia when he was guided to the United States and, ultimately, Harvard, after working on Barack Obama’s presidential campaign in 2008.

Organizing for health care

Stojicic sets sights on improving Serbia’s health

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DateMay 25, 2012June 14, 2019

“I race super late-model cars,” says Fort Lauderdale native Patrick Staropoli '12. “If you were to rank my touring series, we’d probably be about two steps lower than NASCAR. It’s definitely at a professional level. A lot of NASCAR teams have development teams here to bring up the next generation of drivers.”

Driving toward the future

On a speedway as well as in academics, Patrick Staropoli takes the lead

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DateMay 25, 2012July 19, 2019

“Teens went to their friends for advice, or their moms, but not really physicians,” said Katherine Johnson, a Harvard Medical School graduate. "There’s a big gap between physicians and teens in terms of communication and feeling comfortable. These are themes that have stayed with me as I think about what’s important to me and what kind of physician I want to be.”

Bridging the doctor-patient divide

Medical School grad focuses on grassroots communications in community health

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DateMay 25, 2012

Harvard Divinity School student Sonya Soni's views on faith broadened while at the University. “Now, I wonder how I could separate spirituality from social justice,” she said. Soni is deferring med school, but taking her lessons with her everywhere: from the Indian orphanage her great-grandmother founded, to spending a year as a health policy adviser to Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker.

Family values, in an orphanage

At the Divinity School, Soni built on a service ethos that spans generations

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DateMay 24, 2012

While in college, Clara Long spent a spring semester in Belém, Brazil. “That totally changed the trajectory of my life,” she said, and turned a passion for tending the environment into “something that was much more about people.” Now graduating from Harvard Law School, Long is interested in human rights, and views her education at Harvard as a way of acquiring “tools for dealing with injustice.”

Daring to be a doer

Clara Long, who has worked many jobs in many lands, will use her law degree to aid others

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DateMay 24, 2012

“I gradually came to understand that music was a community-building exercise, and that got me interested in thinking about the social and community uses of music, and the arts in general," said Gregg Moore, who is graduating Harvard at the age of 59. After, he's headed to California to work with a small nonprofit, the Ink People Center for the Arts, to organize community music and arts events.

Building community, one note at a time

Moore aims to use music and community arts to link disparate groups

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DateMay 24, 2012June 26, 2019

Fareed Zakaria, who delivered the 2012 Commencement address during the Afternoon Exercises, cited recent research showing that violence is at a historic low and economic growth is high. “I’m betting on the graduates of this great university. ... Your efforts will make a difference.”

Zakaria offers parting words

Trust yourselves in world of opportunity, Zakaria tells graduates

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DateMay 24, 2012

James F. Rothenberg '68, M.B.A. '70, of the Harvard Corporation, salutes Harvard alumni during the annual meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association on Commencement Day 2012.

Board of Overseers election results

The elected directors of the HAA were also announced

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DateMay 24, 2012December 15, 2017

Harvard University celebrates its 361st Commencement in Tercentenary Theatre.

After graduation, reflection

Students celebrate completion of long journey, begin to look forward

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DateMay 24, 2012

Harvard Medalists 2012

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DateMay 24, 2012June 26, 2019

“Animation fascinates me because I’m a dancer, so I’m always moving,” said Catherine Musinsky, a digital media arts and sciences concentrator in the Extension School’s master of liberal arts program who also holds an M.F.A. degree from the Tisch School of the Arts. “I’ve been obsessed with dance ever since I was a kid, and still am.”

Another degree, and a passion realized

Musinsky used an illness to inspire her artistry

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DateMay 24, 2012

Fareed Zakaria addressed the Harvard Alumni Association during the Afternoon Exercises at Harvard's 361st Commencement.

Text of Zakaria’s Commencement address

'We live in an age of progress'

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DateMay 24, 2012

Rep. Barney Frank ’61 Class Day 2012 Speech

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DateMay 24, 2012February 13, 2018

As is custom, the graduating seniors marched into the Yard and the Memorial Church for one of the first official events of the day, morning services. The students filled the church to capacity.

Odes to joy

Snapshots of Harvard’s 361st Commencement, on a picture-perfect day

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DateMay 24, 2012

Andy Samberg Class Day 2012 Speech

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DateMay 24, 2012February 13, 2018

This year, the Radcliffe Institute medal recipient and luncheon speaker is Margaret H. Marshall, Ed.M.’69, who has been a force for justice and equality throughout her life, beginning with her early years in South Africa and continuing through her service as the 24th chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.

Marshall to receive Radcliffe Medal

Radcliffe Day dedicated to leaders in law and social change

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DateMay 24, 2012

Making a difference

College alumni make big advances toward Harvard’s future with their gifts, both great and small

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DateMay 24, 2012December 15, 2017

In May, Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced the launch of edX, a transformational partnership in online education. Through edX, the two institutions will collaborate to enhance campus-based teaching and learning and build a global community of online learners.

A time was had by all

Harvard's 375th anniversary year saw everything from the return of ROTC to Lady Gaga

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DateMay 24, 2012June 26, 2019

“My clown is a weird-looking doctor named Bill,” said Laura Ricci, who is graduating from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. “He has a big moustache, and he wears a funny-looking skirt and two pairs of glasses because he’s just that smart. Actually, when my friends at the hospital found out that I was going to Harvard, they joked that when I came back, Bill would have three pairs of glasses.”

Clowning around, with purpose

Ricci, who's earning master’s in education, entertains in a children’s hospital

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DateMay 24, 2012July 24, 2019

Poet Seamus Heaney (left) last visited Harvard in October 2008, and gave a reading at Sanders Theatre after an introduction by Harvard's Helen Vendler (right). During his decades of part-time teaching at Harvard, Heaney lived at Adams House.

A poem for Harvard

Seamus Heaney will reprise a favorite villanelle, written for 350th

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DateMay 24, 2012

Harvard Alumni Association President Ellen Gordon Reeves, A.B. ’83, Ed.M. ’86, is leaving the association in good hands as she prepares to pass the baton to Carl Muller, A.B. ’73, J.D. ’76, M.B.A. ’76, a two-time Harvard parent. Muller, a lawyer in Greenville, S.C., wants to encourage alumni to explore their Harvard “past, present, and future” during his tenure, a goal that seems especially apropos on the heels of Harvard’s 375th birthday.

Sharing the Harvard experience

HAA leaders help alumni share, explore their University

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DateMay 24, 2012July 19, 2019

Harvard College granted a total of 1,552 degrees at Harvard's 361st Commencement.

Degrees of success

A breakdown of degrees awarded at Harvard's 361st Commencement

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DateMay 24, 2012

Radcliffe recognizes top theses

Fay Prize awarded for outstanding work in medical anthropology, original poetry

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DateMay 24, 2012June 26, 2019

Jenny Hoffman, associate professor in the Department of Physics, said that she is flattered to receive this year’s Abramson Award, but she’s not entirely comfortable with the term “teaching.” “It’s kind of a funny word,” said Hoffman, who teaches “Wave Phenomena” and has created the freshman seminar “Building a Scanning Tunneling Microscope.” “Students do the learning. I try to guide them and to provide an environment that fosters self-confidence and curiosity. But the most important learning happens outside of the classroom, when they work together in the lab or on the problem sets.”

Hoffman, Beerbohm win teaching prize

Junior faculty receive Abramson Award for classroom work

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DateMay 24, 2012June 26, 2019

"This is my fourth year as a member of the University Choir at Mem Church. I sing for the daily Morning Prayer service, as well as on Sundays. And the place, people, and music really have given me a home here, somewhere to start from," said Marina Connelly '12.

Home is where one starts out

A student from Australia found her niche in Memorial Church choir

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DateMay 24, 2012May 31, 2019

The scene builder at Commencement

Scheibner has been directing the annual event for 20 years

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DateMay 24, 2012July 19, 2019

"Education is evolving from an individual to a team sport, where the instructor as coach designs a curriculum that guides active student learning through multiple channels," said Nancy Kane, professor of management and associate dean for educational programs at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Ahead of the learning curve

Harvard faculty members envision the next big ideas in teaching and learning

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DateMay 24, 2012

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