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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.
Mnemonic Masks
Inspired by his Yup’ik heritage, Phillip Charette educates through his art.
Yesterday's News
Happenings at Harvard in Mays and Junes past
Music, Taken Personally
A music critic reviews composer John Adams’s memoir.
Life and Cupcakes
Jessi Walter has fun on the job.