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Jason Furman to Lead Center for Business and Government
The new director of Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center bridges economic research and policy.
“People Were Making Bricks Out of Straw”
Radcliffe Medalist Sherrilyn Ifill on the challenges of racism and the potential for progress
“Wade in the Water”
Public health leader Joia Mukherjee addresses Harvard Medical and Dental Graduates at Class Day.
The “Toxicity of Low Expectations”
Radcliffe Class Day panelists on higher education's responsibility to boost economic mobility
Somethings Old, Somethings New
Familiar preliminaries, but with many post-pandemic wrinkles for Harvard’s 371st Commencement, in-person again
Photographs from Commencement Week
A gallery of Jim Harrison’s images from the unique Commencement celebrations for the classes of 2020, 2021, and 2022
New Harvard Overseers and HAA Directors
Election results announced
Harvard Confers Seven Honorary Degrees
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Gloria Steinem, William Julius Wilson among those recognized—plus a world food humanitarian engaged in Ukraine
Maia Sandu at Kennedy School Class Day
A battler against corruption in a small, threatened nation
“A Choice Not to Deal with Original Sin”
Loretta Lynch at Law School Class Day
Saluting the 2022 Centennial Medalists
Four alumni of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences are honored.