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Tag: Honorary Degree
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Nation & World
A historical honor
Harvard’s honorary degree recipients span history, with Benjamin Franklin, Helen Keller, John F. Kennedy, and Nelson Mandela being just a few among the hundreds over the past 364 commencements.
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Hamburger to receive honorary degree
Jeffrey Hamburger will receive an honorary degree from the University of Bern, Switzerland.
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Conferring of Honorary Degrees | Harvard Commencement 2013
The conferring of honorary degrees at Harvard’s 362nd Commencement at Tercentenary Theatre on May 30, 2013.
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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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CUNY Law School honors Gates
Harvard’s Alphonse Fletcher University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. will be honored at City University of New York School of Law’s annual Public Interest Law Association Gala and Auction benefit March 23.
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Wolff to receive honorary degree
Middlebury College will award Professor Christoph Wolff an honorary degree at their commencement on May 27.
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Rubin awarded honorary doctorate
Donald B. Rubin, John L. Loeb Professor of Statistics, has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg.
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Lessons from a master
Jazz great Wynton Marsalis will make several visits to campus over the next two years, lecturing on a variety of topics to illuminate the relationship between American music and the American identity.
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Gardner receives honorary degree
Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, received an honorary degree from the University of Ploiesti in Romania on March 17.
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University of Macedonia honors Herzfeld
Michael Herzfeld, professor of anthropology and curator of European ethnology in the Peabody Museum at Harvard University, will receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Macedonia on Nov. 24.
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Nation & World
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 awards Sen. Kennedy honorary degree
Political dignitaries, family members, current and former colleagues, faculty, students, old friends, and admirers were all part of the capacity crowd that filled Harvard’s Sanders Theatre Dec. 1 to honor the life of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.
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Sen. Edward Kennedy to receive honorary degree at December convocation
Sen. Edward Kennedy will receive an honorary degree from Harvard on Dec. 1 in a special convocation at Sanders Theatre. The honor is in recognition of Kennedy’s lifelong commitment to public service and his tireless efforts as a champion for a range of social issues including health care, civil rights, labor, employment, the environment, and…
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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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Honorary degree recipients and citations, 2007
Three women and six men received honorary degrees at Harvard’s 356th Commencement. President Derek Bok read the citations.