Tag: Reserve Officers Training Corps

  • Nation & World

    A family affair

    Newly minted officers given honors by family and loved ones.

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    Aaron Boehm, GSAS, (from left) Elisabeth Aigeldinger, Isaiah Coleman, Navy take their oath.
  • Nation & World

    To support and defend the Constitution

    Eleven undergraduates and one student at Harvard’s Extension School will commission as officers in the military during Commencement week.

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    Views of Milltary flags and a Veritas flag.
  • Nation & World

    Departing as leaders

    Six Harvard seniors received inducted into the armed forces at the annual ROTC commissioning ceremony.

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  • Nation & World

    The military-humanities connection

    Recent graduates and students discuss how a revived ROTC program enriched their Harvard College experience and taught them more than they could have imagined.

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  • Nation & World

    Graduating to a life in service

    Four Harvard seniors received their military assignments on Wednesday before family and friends during the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps commissioning ceremony in Tercentenary Theatre.

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  • Nation & World

    A year of change, month by month

    2012-13 was a year of inventions and ascensions, elections and projections, digitizing and prioritizing. The University also launched HarvardX, the wildly popular web learning platform.

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  • Nation & World

    Across cultural borders

    Suzie Verdin will graduate with a degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Arts in Education program, and hopes to use it to help people in immigrant communities connect with the arts.

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  • Nation & World

    Ready to serve

    Four men and one woman from Harvard’s Class of 2013 received their military commissions during a ceremony Wednesday attended by Harvard President Drew Faust.

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  • Nation & World

    Navy honors Faust with award

    The U.S. Department of the Navy has presented Harvard President Drew Faust with the Navy Distinguished Public Service Award, its highest civilian honor, for leading the move to formal recognition of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps on Harvard’s campus in 2011.

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  • Nation & World

    A welcome to the military

    In an annual fall tradition, Harvard rolls out the welcome mat for its new students and fellows who are veterans or who are still in the service.

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  • Nation & World

    Back to basics

    Military training returns to Harvard, as ROTC cadets participate in their first on-campus workouts in 41 years.

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  • Nation & World

    Stepping up

    A day before graduating, four Harvard seniors receive their military commissions.

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  • Nation & World

    Renewing Harvard-Army ties

    In a ceremony March 28 at Hilles Hall, Harvard University resumed a connection with the Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) that started in 1916.

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  • Nation & World

    The return of ROTC

    Among the top Harvard stories of 2011 was the return of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) to campus after an absence of 40 years. In March, the University signed an agreement with the Navy. By September, offices had opened in Hilles Hall for the Naval ROTC’s Old Ironsides Battalion.

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  • Nation & World

    To honor the living and the dead

    A ceremony on 11/11/11 at the Memorial Church will dedicate a tablet honoring Harvard’s 17 Medal of Honor recipients and also will celebrate the return of an ROTC presence to campus.

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  • Nation & World

    Military greeting

    At Harvard’s first orientation for student veterans, a faculty panel says: Help close the military-civilian gap.

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  • Nation & World

    Opening day

    In a ceremony on Sept. 20, Harvard welcomes ROTC back by opening an on-campus office for its Navy midshipmen.

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  • Nation & World

    Harvard welcomes back ROTC

    Harvard President Drew Faust and Navy Secretary Ray Mabus today (March 4) signed an agreement that will re-establish the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) formal presence on campus for the first time in nearly 40 years.

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  • Nation & World

    Attention!

    War is an unpredictable, nonlinear interplay of policy and strategy, Adm. Mike Mullen said in a Harvard talk, and “sense and adjust” is the way to proceed.

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  • Nation & World

    Over there, over here

    On the Harvard campus, as many as 150 students have an untraditional academic past, as present or former members of the U.S. military, many of whom have had multiple combat tours.

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