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Merrick Garland’s Commencement Address
The 86th United States Attorney General spoke to the Harvard classes of 2020 and 2021 at their Commencement ceremony in Tercentenary Theatre.
Caroline Engelmayer’s 2020/2021 Address: Iter Perpetuum
Iter Perpetuum, “A Lasting Journey”
A Multiverse of Might-Have-Beens
A 2021 graduate returns to campus for a belated Commencement that feels more like a reunion.
“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