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Six alumni of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences are honored.

5.19.23 | Commencement
FAS Dean and President-elect Claudine Gay

FAS Dean (and President-to-be) Claudine Gay 

Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications

Claudine Gay’s perspective on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, shortly before she becomes Harvard’s president

5.19.23 | News
Map of eastern Massachusetts

How coastal communities will finance adaptations to climate change—or not—was the focus of a talk hosted by the Graduate School of Design.

Map by Google Earth

How to think about rising threats and the costs of responding

5.17.23 | News
Catherine Yeo performing on stage

Catherine Yeo performing at the Smith Center last October during the Weatherhead Center's International Comedy Night

Photograph courtesy of Catherine Yeo

For an Asian American woman, performing comedy is about much more than jokes.  

5.17.23 | Opinion
Moving out box in Harvard Yard with a Harvard snow globe, graduation cap, and books

The pretty parts of college are easy to photograph, but the messier experiences often prove more memorable and profound. 

Montage illustration by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine; photographs of box, books, and cap by Unsplash

One graduating senior’s would-be commencement speech on the beautiful, the ugly, and the everlasting

5.17.23 | Commencement
Memorial Church

Memorial Church, where the service will be held

Photograph by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine

President Bacow invites the community to remember a Harvard giant.

5.15.23 | News

The annual report on leaders’ compensation

5.12.23 | News
A plenary session at the Harvard Climate Symposium featured Jeremy Grantham, Janet McCabe, Gillian Tett (moderating), and via video link, Mark Carney.

A plenary session at the Harvard Climate Symposium featured Jeremy Grantham, Janet McCabe, Gillian Tett (moderating), and via video link, Mark Carney.

Photograph by JS/Harvard Magazine

Addressing the climate crisis at the Salata Institute’s first symposium

5.11.23 | News
Graphic depicting Harvard’s overall greenhouse gas emissions

Graphic depicting Harvard’s overall greenhouse gas emissions

Graphic courtesy of Harvard Office for Sustainability

A holistic approach to human and planetary health considers other impacts of fossil fuel combustion, not just greenhouse gases.

5.11.23 | News
An image of the covers for Stay True and Then the War, overlaid with a gold Pulitzer Prize medal

Hua Hsu's memoir Stay True and Carl Phillips's Then the War were among this year's Pulitzer winners.

Pulitzer prize medal in public domain; montage by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine

Carl Phillips and Hua Hsu honored in poetry and memoir

5.8.23 | News