Featured series 
Tag: Veterans Day
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Campus & Community
Think higher-ed boot camp
Ashley Emann finds her place at Harvard as a military veteran.
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Campus & Community
From the service to school
Portraits of four veterans who transferred from community college to Harvard.
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Campus & Community
Great War left an enduring legacy across Harvard
Over the next several weeks, Memorial Church will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I in a series of performances featuring the music and composers of the era.
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Campus & Community
Harvard affirms, deepens commitment to veterans
A Veterans Day ceremony at the Memorial Church included the announcement of Harvard’s partnership with Service to School’s VetLink.
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Campus & Community
Army paratrooper lands at Law School
In honor of Veterans Day, Harvard Law School profiled four students who were leaders in the military. Among them is Steven Kerns of the U.S. Army.
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Arts & Culture
Centuries of honor and prestige
A new library exhibit will explore the 350-year-old relationship between the U.S. military and Harvard University.
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Nation & World
Using law to protect veterans
Fifteen active-duty or veteran soldiers have matriculated at Harvard Law School this year. Among them is Anne Stark, who commanded a company that was responsible for the daily operations of a 500-soldier battalion.
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Nation & World
HLS legal clinic lands victories for veterans
Since its founding in 2012 by Clinical Professor of Law Daniel Nagin, more than 30 HLS students taking part in the Veterans Legal Clinic have represented more than 100 clients in the areas of federal and state veterans’ benefits, discharge upgrades, and estate planning.
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Campus & Community
Stars and stripes at The Game
When alumna Danielle Thiriot ’07 returns for the Harvard-Yale game (aka The Game) on Saturday, she’ll have one of the best seats in the house. Above the house, in fact, and traveling at 300 knots, about 345 mph.
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Campus & Community
Memories and beginnings
Members of the Harvard community gathered Sunday to salute the University’s war dead for Veterans Day, an event accompanied by the official institution service for Jonathan Walton, the Memorial Church’s new Pusey Minister and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals.
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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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Campus & Community
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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Nation & World
A bell tolls for bravery
On Veterans Day, Harvard President Drew Faust and Gen. George W. Casey Jr. dedicate a plaque to the University’s Medal of Honor winners.
