Commencement 2019
Dan Chiasson and Eric Lander
Photographs from left: courtesy of Dan Chiasson and Casey Atkins Photography/Courtesy of Broad Institute
The Broad Institute president and Wellesley poet will speak at the annual Commencement event.
Al Gore
Photograph by Seb Daly/Collision via Sportsfile
The climate-change advocate and former vice president will address graduating seniors on May 29.
Dolores Huerta
Photo courtesy of the Dolores Huerta Foundation
The labor rights organizer will be honored on May 31.
Angela Merkel
Photograph by 360b/Alamy Stock Photo
The German chancellor will deliver the Commencement address on May 30, 2019.
The annual election results
Evelyn Richmond ’41 and Theodore R. Barnett ’41
Photographs by Jim Harrison
Seventy-seventh reunioners Evelyn Richmond and Theodore R. Barnett led the 2018 alumni parade.
Clockwise from top left: Robert Coles, Robert N. Shapiro, Alice Welch, and Drew Gilpin Faust
Photographs by Jim Harrison
For extraordinary service to the University
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences honorands (from left) Choon Fong Shih, Harold Luft, Beth Adelson, and Guido Goldman
Photograph courtesy of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Contributions to society from graduate research
President Drew Faust
Photograph by Jim Harrison
President Faust’s Commencement afternoon valedictory address on hope and higher education
