Updated 8.29.2023

2009 GSAS Medalists

July-August 2009

Photograph by Jim Harrison

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who have made contributions to society that emerged from their graduate study at Harvard.

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