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Graduation, Socially Distanced
There’s nothing like a global pandemic and economic meltdown to concentrate the mind and focus the joyous celebration of graduation on the very hard work at hand. And so it was with Harvard’s condensed, online University degree-conferral ceremony …
Issue: July-August 2020
Michelle Wu Tells the Truth
When invited to address the College class of 2022 at Class Day, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu ’07, J.D. ’12, had two initial thoughts. The first, she told the Tercentenary Theatre crowd this afternoon, was “What makes me qualified, just six months into my new …
Has Harvard “Divested”?
P erhaps more than any other issue, questions about Harvard’s endowment investments in fossil-fuel production and advocacy in favor of divesting any such assets have dominated campus discussion during the past nine years, generating student activism and …
Claudine Gay Named Harvard’s Thirtieth President
C laudine Gay —dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) since 2018—will become the thirtieth president of Harvard University on July 1. The announcement of her election by the Harvard Corporation, with the consent of the Board of Overseers earlier …
Dename Winthrop?
In November 2023 , a group of students spoke at the Institute of Politics (IOP) about their campaign to dename Winthrop House. Earlier that year, in March, they had submitted an official denaming request to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) that …
Overseer and HAA Director Candidates
This spring, alumni can vote for five new Harvard Overseers and six new elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). Ballots, mailed out by April 1, must be received back in Cambridge by noon on May 22 to be counted. Election results will be …
Issue: May-June 2015
A Dazzling Class of Zebras
“You have been undergraduates for 1,349 days. I have been interim president for 140 days,” began Alan M. Garber at the baccalaureate ceremony, an occasion when the president traditionally addresses graduating seniors. Alluding to the circumstances that …
Brevia
Class Day Creativity On Wednesday afternoon, May 27, M.Arch. candidates from the Design School who were still in town arranged themselves on the (otherwise deserted) Widener steps for an impromptu class photo (above): the first with social-distancing …
Issue: July-August 2020
The “Surprise” Team?
Last April , the men’s basketball team gathered at the Harvard Club of Boston for its annual end-of-the-year banquet, to celebrate the 2014-2015 squad, which went 22-8 and captured the program’s fifth straight conference championship and fourth …
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Ruth Simmons to Join Harvard as Senior Adviser
T his morning, Harvard announced that Ruth Simmons, Ph.D. ’73, LL.D. ’02,will join the University as senior adviser to the president on engagement with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Set to begin June 1, her role will focus on …
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences Envisions Its Future
E nlisting its members’ intellects and capabilities, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) is pursuing an unprecedented effort to envision and realize its academic future. Dean Claudine Gay’s FAS Study Group (FSG), chartered in November 2020 to consider …