Commencement
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Named Harvard College Class Day Speaker
The basketball player and writer will address Harvard seniors on May 28.
by Nina Pasquini
2015
Poet Laura Kasischke and Orator Allen Counter To Speak at Literary Exercises
Harvard’s Phi Beta Kappa ceremony opens Commencement week on May 26.
Deval L. Patrick Named 2015 Commencement Speaker
A first-generation Harvardian, the former Massachusetts governor will be “welcomed home” on May 28.
2014
Graduating, Briskly
The University’s 363rd Commencement, featuring George H. W. Bush, Aretha Franklin, Michael R. Bloomberg, and more
Talks, and a Text
President Drew Faust on universities' role, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on tolerance, and a seventieth reunion puts learning and life in perspective
Commencement Confetti
Class of 2014 careers and concerns, hockey jersey for the Corporation's senior fellow, degrees conferred, and more
Honoris Causa
At the 363rd Commencement, honorary degrees for George H. W. Bush, Michael R. Bloomberg, Aretha Franklin, Isabel Allende, Joseph Stiglitz, and more
Harvard Graduation, in the Lambert Clan
Extension dean Huntington Lambert gave his mother, Joan, her 1973 diploma.
Radcliffe Asks, “What Is Life?”
A Radcliffe Institute panel discusses the science and ethics of engineering life.
Genius at the School Gates
Radcliffe Institute panel discusses the place of women writers.
Faust: “There Is Still a Considerable Way to Go”
Harvard’s president, this year’s Radcliffe Medalist, reflects on women’s rights past, present, and future.
