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Atul Gawande to address medical and dental school graduating classes
The surgeon and professor of health policy won a National Magazine Award this week.
Meet Tiffany Smalley, Harvard's first Wampanoag graduate in 346 years
Tiffany Smalley ’11 follows in the footsteps of Caleb Cheeshahteaumauk, A.B. 1665.
TED curator Chris Anderson to speak at Graduate School of Design's Class Day
Chris Anderson will speak at the Graduate School of Design on May 25.
In the 1968 Class Day speech, Coretta Scott King praised student activism
Two months after her husband’s murder, the civil-rights leader’s widow delivered the 1968 Class Day speech.
Walter Cronkite issued a challenge to the class of 1980
"Pick up your cudgels and man (and woman) the barricades" against overpopulation, pollution, natural-resource depletion, and nuclear proliferation, he advised.
In his 1968 Commencement speech, Iran's shah proposed a Universal Welfare Legion
Unruffled by protesters, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi suggested a way to remove the "roots of the curses that afflict humanity" in his 1968 speech.
Addressing the class of 1993, Marian Wright Edelman spoke up for children
In her 1993 Class Day speech, she reminded the graduating seniors of those less fortunate.
Excerpts from Colin Powell's 1993 Harvard Commencement address
Despite some Harvardians’ opposition to his selection as chief speaker, the general was received with applause in 1993.
In 1956, John F. Kennedy urged politicians and intellectuals to work together
In 1956, the future president sought to persuade intellectuals and politicians to work better together.
Multiple myeloma research crusader Kathy Giusti to speak at HBS Class Day
The founder of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation will speak at Harvard Business School Class Day.
Joyce Carol Oates to speak, Henri Cole to read at 2011 Phi Beta Kappa ceremony
The author will speak, and the poet will read, on May 24.
6 Harvard faculty members among 72 new members of National Academy of Sciences
Honored for work in disciplines including economics, climate change, genomics, mathematics