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“Today” Comes to Class Day
Matt Lauer's advice for the class of 2009, plus student speeches
Leadership Tips from a "Soldier Scholar"
General David Petraeus speaks at the ROTC commissioning ceremony.
Significant Contributors to Society and Scholarship
The 2009 GSAS Centennial Medalists
Life As Improvisation: The Baccalaureate Service
President Drew Faust calls the class of 2009 to find opportunity in uncertainty.
"Habits Are Values in Disguise": The Phi Beta Kappa Exercises
Poems about optimisim and humility, and an oration on sustaining the earth
Commencement Kickoff: Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises
With poet Albert Goldbarth and orator James Engell, Gurney professor of English literature and professor of comparative literature
In This Mass Extinction, the Enemy Is Us
The New Yorker magazine quotes Fisher professor of natural history Andrew Knoll on the current mass extinction. The enemy is us.
EVP Forst to Leave Harvard
Updated May 28. Executive Vice President Ed Forst, who joined Harvard last fall and helped shape the University's financial strategy, is returning to New York.
Faculty of Arts and Sciences Details Initial Budget Cuts
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences gave some details of initial efficiency measures—one-third of the savings it must effect.
John Ashbery receives Harvard Arts Medal
A ceremony to honor poet John Ashbery ’49 kicks off Arts First weekend.
Class on the Grass
Golfer Emily Balmert, and the women’s varsity team, have reached milestones.
Pardis Sabeti
For this systems biologist, the interaction of science and music is multiplicative.