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Tag: Commencement
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Campus & Community
Odes to joy
Harvard Gazette staff writers covered the campus to capture snapshots of Harvard’s 361st Commencement, on a picture-perfect day.
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Campus & Community
Marshall to receive Radcliffe Medal
On Radcliffe Day, May 25, hundreds of alumnae, fellows, and friends, including many University leaders, faculty, and staff, celebrate excellence and innovation — hallmarks of both Radcliffe College and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. This year, the Radcliffe Institute medal recipient and luncheon speaker is Margaret H. Marshall, Ed.M.’69.
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Campus & Community
Making a difference
The chance to make a difference — in Cambridge and beyond — by giving to Harvard appeals widely to alumni across class years.
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Campus & Community
A time was had by all
A fond look back at the memorable events of Harvard’s 375th year.
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Campus & Community
Clowning around, with purpose
Laura Ricci, who is receiving a master’s degree from the Graduate School of Education, has a long background as a professional therapeutic clown in a children’s hospital.
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Campus & Community
A poem for Harvard
Seamus Heaney, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, returns to Harvard to read a poem at Morning Exercises. As Harvard celebrates its 375th anniversary, he will reprise his 1986 “Villanelle for an Anniversary,” composed for the University’s 350th.
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Campus & Community
Sharing the Harvard experience
Outgoing Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) President Ellen Gordon Reeves, A.B. ’83, Ed.M. ’86, will be leaving the HAA in good hands as she prepares to pass the baton to Carl Muller, A.B. ’73, J.D. ’76, M.B.A. ’76.
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Campus & Community
Degrees of success
A breakdown of degrees awarded at Harvard’s 361st Commencement.
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Campus & Community
Radcliffe recognizes top theses
The Captain Jonathan Fay Prize is awarded annually to the graduating Harvard College senior who has produced the most imaginative work or original research in any field.
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Campus & Community
Hoffman, Beerbohm win teaching prize
Physicist Jenny Hoffman and political theorist Eric Beerbohm have won the Roslyn Abramson Award, given annually to assistant or associate professors for excellence in undergraduate teaching.
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Campus & Community
Home is where one starts out
A student from Australia, far from home and legally blind, found her niche by singing in the Memorial Church choir.
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Campus & Community
The scene builder at Commencement
For 20 years, Commencement Director Grace Scheibner has been responsible for the detailed planning and execution of the Harvard Commencement Morning Exercises.
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Nation & World
Ahead of the learning curve
From the $40 million Hauser gift to support teaching and learning initiatives to the recent announcement of the global online platform edX, Harvard tackled the future of higher education head-on in 2011-12. As the University’s 375th anniversary draws to a close, the Gazette asked some prescient professors: “What’s the one big idea that will transform…
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Campus & Community
You’re all right, lefty
On the baseball diamond, senior Brent Suter serves up pitches, and off the field he pitches service.
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Campus & Community
HAA announces Harvard Medalists
The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has named Charles W. Collier, Ellen R. and Melvin J. Gordon, Harry L. Parker, and Susan S. Wallach the recipients of the 2012 Harvard Medal.
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Campus & Community
GSAS honors its leading alumni
The Centennial Medal is the highest honor awarded by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, given annually during Commencement week to celebrate the achievements of a select group of Harvard University’s most accomplished alumni.
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Campus & Community
Eight receive honorary degrees
Journalist Fareed Zakari, who was chosen as the principal speaker at the Afternoon Exercises, is among those to be presented an honoroary degree at Harvard’s 361st Commencement.
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Campus & Community
O, hear the bells
A joyous peal of bells will ring throughout Cambridge today. 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…
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Campus & Community
A Class Day doubleheader
At Class Day, U.S. Rep. Barney Frank ’61, J.D. ’77, and comedian Andy Samberg offered words of wisdom and wit to Harvard’s graduating Class of 2012.
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Campus & Community
In full regalia, and ready to regale
This year’s accomplished trio of Commencement orators draws inspiration from diverse sources, from the late Rev. Peter J. Gomes to Japanese haiku to the Latin inscription on Dexter Gate.
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Campus & Community
Finnegan elected to Corporation
Paul J. Finnegan, A.B. ’75, M.B.A. ’82, a widely admired member of the University’s Board of Overseers, past president of the Harvard Alumni Association, and co-CEO of a leading Chicago-based investment firm, has been elected to become the newest member of the Harvard Corporation, the University announced May 23.
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Campus & Community
Stepping up
A day before graduating, four Harvard seniors receive their military commissions.
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Campus & Community
Lessons for the lucky few
In her Baccalaureate Address, President Drew Faust urged graduates of the Class of 2012 to be mindful of their good fortune — and to embrace the responsibilities a privileged education bestows on them.
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Campus & Community
Sharp messages
Poet Kay Ryan and former Harvard President Derek Bok blended wit and wisdom in addressing top-ranked seniors at the 222nd Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises on May 22.
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Campus & Community
Commencements, from 1642 onward
In its earliest years, the struggling College was chronically short of money and sometimes even graduates.
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Campus & Community
Four from HBS win Dean’s Award
Four members of the Harvard Business School M.B.A. Class of 2012 have been named winners of the School’s prestigious Dean’s Award.
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Campus & Community
Harvard student, Mexican politician
When Lilia Aguilar earns her Kennedy School degree, she’ll return to her homeland to ramp up her campaign for a seat in congress.
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Campus & Community
A maestro and a wordsmith
Senior Matt Aucoin immersed himself in Harvard’s rich worlds of poetry and music, with a degree in English, a passion for writing and composing, and a future destined for The New Yorker, or the conductor’s chair, or both.
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Campus & Community
The right place, the Wright time
Keith Wright calls his decision to come to Harvard “the best in my life.” Crimson basketball fans would agree. The forward and his teammates have made history since he arrived in 2008, transforming a losing program into one of the Ivy League’s most successful.
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Campus & Community
Class Day speakers cover comedy, politics
The Class of 2012 will hear from one of popular culture’s rising stars and get a window into the way Washington works when “Saturday Night Live” (SNL) cast member Andy Samberg and Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank speak on Senior Class Day, May 23, in Tercentenary Theatre.
