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Your Harvard 2026 Commencement Week Guide
College reunions and Alumni Day will take place the following week
Ledecky Fellows for the 2007-2008 academic year
Photograph by Jim Harrison Liz Goodwin and Samuel Bjork Harvard Magazine’s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the...
Rebound & Transition
Harvard has never won an Ivy League basketball championship. Changing that legacy, which dates from 1955 (the first year of play in the league)...
Sports Wrap
SoftballThe softballers (31-15, 15-6 Ivy) won the league championship, with Ivy Pitcher of the Year Shelly Madick ’08 (16-6) tossing a...
Attend to the Cursed
Few who stood at a Harvard podium during Commencement week mentioned the war in Iraq. Joshua Patashnik '07, of Adams House and San Diego, did do...
Interim Accomplishments
When he was summoned back to Massachusetts Hall in February 2006, interim president Derek Bok told a group of Harvard administrators last...
Developing Deans, Calendar Consensus
Beyond what he characterized last October as a “formidable agenda” of substantive work, Derek Bok pursued less publicized ways to...
Harvard Portrait: Annette Lemieux
Though she’s been called a conceptual artist, “That’s just for lack of a better term,” says Annette Lemieux, professor...
Managing Harvard: A New Deal?
Editor’s note: President Derek Bok, who wrote annual reports on the University during his service from 1971 to 1991, did so again at the...
University People
One for the Books Justin Ide / Harvard News Office Robert C. Darnton Justin Ide / Harvard News Office Sidney Verba Robert C. Darnton...
College curriculum change completed
During the second weekend in May, just before the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) met on May 15 for its final discussion of a proposed new...