Tag: Commencement

  • Nation & World

    At ROTC commissioning, Faust touts idea of ‘soldier-scholar’

    Barron, Bilotti, Bras, Chiappini, Doohovskoy, Kristol, Pellegrini, West. That’s roll call for eight 2009 Harvard graduates who were commissioned late Wednesday morning (June 3). Five are new officers in the U.S. Army and three in the U.S. Marine Corps.

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    Faust bids farewell to 2009’s ‘improvisers’

    Harvard President Drew Faust shared final words of wisdom with the Class of 2009 Tuesday (June 2), sending them into a newly uncertain world with assurances that their liberal arts education gives them the ability to improvise in changing times.

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    Ten honorary degrees awarded at Commencement

    Harvard University has conferred today (June 4) honorary degrees on 10 outstanding individuals: Energy Secretary Steven Chu, filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, author Joan Didion, religious historian Wendy Doniger, legal philosopher Ronald Dworkin, immunologist Anthony S. Fauci, anthropologist Sarah Hrdy, engineer Robert Langer, musician Wynton Marsalis, and political scientist Sidney Verba.

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    Harvard Class Day 2009

    Journalist Matt Lauer joins student orators in a humor-filled afternoon of informal celebration.

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    Phi Beta Kappa 2009

    Harvard’s 358th Commencement begins: a beautiful day, a bittersweet poem, a cautionary talk, a president’s wisdom and good wishes – and hymns, prayers and farewells.

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    Faces of the Future: Harvard Class of 2009

    What do music therapy, midwifery, ballet, graphic art, physics, finance, and the study of military culture have in common? They are practiced at the highest levels of commitment and excellence by the Harvard graduates profiled here.

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    Niall Kirkwood honored for work in landscape architecture

    Niall Kirkwood, chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture and professor of landscape architecture and technology at the Graduate School of Design (GSD) has been named a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects.

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    H1N1 influenza advice for Commencement week visitors

    While at Harvard, should you experience any symptoms consistent with H1N1 flu, you should contact Harvard University Health Services (HUHS).

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    Tips to help you enjoy Commencement, come rain or shine

    VISITOR TIPS AND SERVICES The following services will be in effect at the University on Commencement Day, June 4.

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    Special notice regarding Commencement Exercises

    MORNING EXERCISES To accommodate the increasing number of those wishing to attend Harvard’s Commencement Exercises, the following guidelines are proposed to facilitate admission into Tercentenary Theatre on Commencement Morning (June 4):

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    Tradition rings out

    A peal of bells will ring throughout Cambridge next week, on June 4. For the 21st consecutive year a number of neighboring churches and institutions will ring their bells in celebration of the city of Cambridge and of Harvard’s 358th Commencement Exercises.

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    A special notice regarding Commencement Exercises

    Morning Exercises To accommodate the increasing number of those wishing to attend Harvard’s Commencement Exercises, the following guidelines are proposed to facilitate admission into Tercentenary Theatre on Commencement Morning (June 4):

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    Matt Lauer of NBC News to deliver Class Day speech at Harvard

    Matt Lauer, co-anchor of “Today” on NBC News, has been selected as the 2009 Senior Class Day speaker. He will address Harvard College graduates and their guests on June 3 at 2 p.m. in Tercentenary Theatre at Harvard Yard.

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    Energy Secretary and Nobelist Steven Chu to speak at Commencement

    U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Nobel laureate in physics and a leader in the pursuit of alternative and renewable sources of energy, will be Harvard’s principal speaker at the Afternoon Exercises of Harvard’s 358th Commencement on June 4.

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    Interfaculty Initiative in Health Policy awards certificates

    The Harvard Interfaculty Initiative in Health Policy recognized 39 seniors at its annual certificate ceremony during graduation week.

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    Sights, sounds, stories of Commencement 2008

    From the beginning of Commencement Day, when graduates and their professors commenced sprouting out of the morning mist in full regalia, ’til the end of Afternoon Exercises, when all and sundry fell under the spell of J.K. Rowling’s verbal wizardry, four curious, stealthy, and alert writers from the Gazette prowled around the Yard and its…

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    Six HBS students honored for service to School, society

    Six members of the Harvard Business School M.B.A. Class of 2008 have been named winners of the School’s prestigious Dean’s Award.

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    Faust’s first year

    In her Commencement 2008 address, Drew Faust reflects on her first year as president of Harvard University.

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    Shalala to receive Radcliffe Medal

    The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has announced that Donna E. Shalala, president of the University of Miami and former U.S. secretary of Health and Human Services, will be awarded the 2008 Radcliffe Institute Medal at the annual Radcliffe Day luncheon on Friday (June 6) at 12:45 p.m. Barbara J. Grosz, dean of the Radcliffe…

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    Weinberg, Phillips honored at PBK ceremony

    Late this morning (June 3), Adam Goldenberg ’08 — in a fashionable bow tie and flowing academic robes — joined a long line of gowned seniors in the shade of trees outside Harvard Hall. A few months before, the Vancouver, B.C., social studies concentrator had dressed a little differently (in pink tights and a yellow…

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    Three receive HAA medal for extraordinary service to University

    The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has announced the recipients of the 2008 Harvard Medal: Susan L. Graham A.B. ’64, Richard M. Hunt Ph.D. ’60, and Stephen B. Kay A.B. ’56, M.B.A. ’58.

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    Honorary degrees awarded at Commencement

    Harvard University today (June 5) conferred honorary doctoral degrees on 10 individuals in recognition of their outstanding achievements in a broad range of fields. The degrees were awarded at this morning’s 357th Commencement Exercises. In addition, the University announced its intention to confer an honorary degree on Sen. Edward M. Kennedy on an appropriate future…

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    Text of J.K. Rowling’s speech

    ‘The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination’

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    Highlights of the year that was

    As Commencement closes another chapter of the Harvard story, here is a brief backward glance at some highlights of the year that was.

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    The magic of J.K. Rowling

    J.K. Rowling inspires the Class of 2008 with a heartfelt, fluent talk about the uses of failure and imagination.

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    Yes, it was a magical talk

    Call it magic, but the rain held off while Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling delivered the keynote address this afternoon (June 5) at Harvard University’s annual meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association.

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    Preacher Siwo-Okundi attends to the ‘small voice’

    Why do people suffer from the sins of others? Elizabeth J.A. Siwo-Okundi has long pondered this question as she has studied some of the most ambiguous and troubling passages in the Bible. A master’s of theology student at Harvard Divinity School, Siwo-Okundi has never shied away from difficult issues. Even while studying Old Testament stories…

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    357th Commencement: Harvard confers 6,966 degrees and 104 certificates

    Today the University awarded a total of 6,966 degrees and 104 certificates. A breakdown of the degrees by schools and programs follows. Harvard College granted a total of 1,564 degrees.

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    A joyous peal of bells will ring throughout city in time-honored tradition

    In celebration of the city of Cambridge and of the country’s oldest university — and of our earlier history when bells of varying tones summoned us from sleep to prayer, work, or study — this ancient yet new sound will fill Harvard Square and the surrounding area with music when a number of neighboring churches…

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    A family’s recollections of commencements

    In 1926, William Lawrence published his autobiography, “Memories of a Happy Life.” In 1967, his daughter, Marian Lawrence Peabody, then in her 90s, published “To Be Young Was Very Heaven.” These reminiscences show that although some things change, much stays the same, including certain rituals — and worries — around Commencement.

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