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Tag: Commencement
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Breaking Boundaries, Creating Solutions | One Harvard
Innovation and Entrepreneurship harnesses interest in socially conscious business by allowing students to tap into Harvard Business School faculty and the ilab resources.
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Leadership in Education: Re-Imagining Learning | One Harvard
The Doctor of Education Leadership (Ed.L.D.) degree was created as an interdisciplinary effort that offers students access to a wide range of Harvard courses and faculty.
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Financial Aid: A University-Wide Commitment | One Harvard
A glance at Harvard’s University-wide commitment to financial aid, the foundation of Harvard’s effort to attract the most qualified students across the nation and around the world
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Learning Through Collaboration: Mumbai Back Bay Studio | One Harvard
The Mumbai Back Bay Harbor project brings together faculty and students from multiple Schools at Harvard to integrate components of urban development.
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Changing the Foundations of Science: Harvard Stem Cell Institute | One Harvard
In the nine years since its founding, The Harvard Stem Cell Institute has become the world leader in stem cell biology.
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One Harvard
One Harvard is a compilation of stories that illustrate the powerful outcomes that result from multi-School collaborations across the University.
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Giving back because of what Harvard gave them
Every year, more than 30,000 alumni give back in celebration of reunions, as volunteers, or through annual gifts, and they aren’t shy about sharing why.
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Nadia Farjood ’13: Ethos of Character
Nadia Farjood ’13, a current student in Currier House, is proud to attend Harvard—a university with a community of shared values.
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Linking health policy to people
Maia Fedyszyn, who is receiving a master’s of science in public health from the Harvard School of Public Health, has a passion for health policy to improve the lot of everyday people.
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Her wheels are always turning
Alice Anne Brown is graduating from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design as an urban planner interested in creating greener, bicycle-friendly cities around the world.
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Commencement: It’s a spectator sport
The sea of caps and gowns, many decorated with colorful regalia, is a memorable sight in Harvard’s Tercentenary Theatre on Commencement Day. But glance beyond the graduates and you’ll find an even larger gathering.
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Three honored as HAA medalists
The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has announced that James V. Baker ’68, M.B.A. ’71, William Thaddeus Coleman Jr., J.D. ’43, LL.D. ’96, and Georgene Botyos Herschbach, A.M. ’63, Ph.D. ’69, are the recipients of the 2013 Harvard Medal.
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Soledad O’Brien Class Day speaker
Soledad O’Brien, a CNN special correspondent, will speak to graduating seniors on Senior Class Day, held in Tercentenary Theatre.
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Astronaut named chief marshal
The Harvard Alumni Association announced that Stephanie D. Wilson ’88, a NASA astronaut and engineer who flew three missions aboard the space shuttle Discovery, will serve as Harvard’s chief marshal for Commencement 2013.
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Winfrey named Commencement speaker
Oprah Winfrey, who has consistently used her success as a talk show host and media entrepreneur to promote education, civic engagement, and charitable works, will be the principal speaker at the Afternoon Exercises of Harvard’s 362nd Commencement.
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Elections open for HAA
This spring, alumni can vote for a new group of Harvard Overseers and Harvard Alumni Association elected directors.
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In the Yard, a changing of the guard
The trees of Harvard Yard are in the midst of managed change as the once-ubiquitous elms continue their decades-long decline. Mixed species, dominated by American trees, replace them.
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Oxford awards honorary degree to Faust
Harvard President Drew Faust was awarded an honorary degree by Oxford University in a ceremony marked by traditions four centuries old on a campus at least twice as old as Harvard’s.
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An enterprising mind
Fresh off his own failed venture, Andrew Rosenthal still wanted to build things. At Harvard Business School, he helped to build a bridge between startup-minded students and the broader community.
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Organizing for health care
Pedrag Stojicic, who is graduating from the Harvard School of Public Health, plans to apply his passion for organizing to problems in his Serbian homeland, including HIV/AIDS and physician corruption.
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Driving toward the future
In four years at Harvard College, hard work and determination have propelled Patrick Staropoli to a 3.94 grade point average and earned him a place in Phi Beta Kappa. But when folks in Staropoli’s home state of Florida talk about his drive, they’re usually referring to the fact that he races super late-model series stock…
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Bridging the doctor-patient divide
Graduating Harvard Medical School student Katherine Johnson hopes to bridge barriers between doctors and patients by using her skills in the community as she begins her residency.
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Family values, in an orphanage
Sonya Soni always felt called to serve the Indian orphanage that her family has run for four generations. Two years at Harvard Divinity School challenged her to rethink what the struggling community needs most.
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Daring to be a doer
Clara Long, who has worked many jobs in many lands, plans to use her new Harvard Law Degree to help ensure the rights of others.
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Building community, one note at a time
Now 59, Gregg Moore is set to receive a master’s from the Graduate School of Education, which he plans to use to foster community arts programs, with an emphasis on music education, as a way to bring disparate groups together. It’s an idea inspired by his career as a professional tubist in Europe, where he…
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Zakaria offers parting words
Delivering Harvard’s Commencement address, journalist Fareed Zakaria told members of the Class of 2012 to trust themselves as they journey into a world that is more peaceful and contains more opportunities than ever before.
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Board of Overseers election results
The president of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) announced the results of the annual election of new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers. The elected directors of the HAA were also announced on May 24.
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After graduation, reflection
Harvard’s 361st Commencement continued well into the later afternoon, with graduates, alums, family, friends, and faculty joining in the festivities.
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Another degree, and a passion realized
Catherine Musinsky, an Extension School graduate, used a serious illness to inspire her artistry, creating a documentary and moving on to study movement.
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Text of Zakaria’s Commencement address
Commencement address by Fareed Zakaria on May 24, 2012.
