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Honoris Causa
… Four women and three men received honorary degrees during the graduation program on May 26 (including one in absentia, … Muyembe-Tamfum , microbiologist, general director of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Institut National pour la Recherche …
Issue: July-August 2022
Alumni Interviewers Honored
… This year’s Miller-Hunn Awards—the original award, which honored Hiram S. Hunn, A.B. 1921, now also honors retired admissions officer Dwight D. Miller, Ed.M. ’71—recognize eight alumni … prospective undergraduates. Michael R. Alde rete ’79, of Moraga, California, has served the San Francisco Bay Area …
Issue: September-October 2022
Celebrating Alumni, Anew
… are underway to create “exciting, dynamic programming” for the Harvard Alumni Association’s (HAA) newly reorganized … the 152 nd meeting, traditionally held on the afternoon of Commencement Day, to the end of the following week links it more directly to the (also …
Issue: January-February 2022
Three Alumni Named as National Book Award Finalists
… Three Harvard alumni were among the nominees announced on Tuesday as finalists for the 2022 … A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation , which mixes memoir, travelogue, and literary … history, race, and justice that are at the heart not only of that region, but of the nation: “To be an American is to …
Harvard Extension School
… The university Extension's centennial banquet takes place … at 6; dinner and program at 7). By invitation only. Visit the Harvard Extension School website . … The University Extension’s Centennial Banquet takes place on …
Think Tank for Aid Workers
… Eager to see how his medical training would translate into the context of a poor nation torn by civil war, VanRooyen concluded very … and malaria. During the next decade, he traveled to some of the world’s most dangerous and disaster-riven places: …
Issue: November-December 2007
Ban Ki-Moon HKS Class Day Speech
… you for your warm introduction. Dr. Doug Elmendorf, dean of Harvard Kennedy School, distinguished professors of Harvard Kennedy School, dear Harvard Kennedy … begin my remarks by conveying my warmest congratulations to the Harvard Kennedy School Class of 2023. Exactly 39 years …
Josiah Meadows ’23 Latin Salutatory
… The Value of a Harvard Education Josiah Meadows ’23, Latin … præses designata, socii inspectoresque honoratissimi, professores tutoresque doctissimi, condiscipuli sodalesque … fortè correpserint, profectò inter se murmurant, “What in the world does this mean?” Hoc quadriennio felicitèr …
Ideas Rain In
… Newton had already invented calculus and formulated his law of gravitational attraction. Throughout history, genius and madness have often dwelled together: think of Vincent Van Gogh, William James, M.D. 1869, …
Issue: May-June 2004
Education School Dean Bridget Terry Long to Step Down
… Terry Long announced today that she will step down as dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) at the end of this academic year. She …
Why Is Cancer More Common in Men?
… to cancer than women; one in two men will develop some form of the disease in a lifetime, compared with one in three women. … such as cigarette smoking and factory work. Yet the ratio of men with cancer to women with cancer remained largely …
Issue: March-April 2017
“A Prayer for Our Country”
… In the first of a six-month series of public conversations focused on storytelling and public … for a healthier world,” as Michelle Williams, dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, phrased …
"A Difficult and Compelling Pursuit"
… own niche in public-interest law. She heads her own nonprofit, the New Orleans-based A Fighting Chance ( … day he was exonerated after seven years in jail. Courtesy of A Fighting Chance While looking for jobs in …
Issue: March-April 2005
Conferring Degrees, 2020
… As the coronavirus pandemic spread, Harvard announced on March … ). The annual weeklong celebration of Harvard’s students and its worldwide community draws tens of thousands of people to campus—including a crowd, …
Issue: May-June 2020
A Call for Precision
… On January 21 , 2017, millions of people gathered across the country for the Women’s March—at that … protest in American history. Amid disputes about the number of participants, Jeremy Pressman, a professor at the …