Campus & Community

Harvard Commencement Speaker John Lewis exhorts graduates to get to work in the fight for justice.

Ian Nicholson has some advice for his daughter Lauren as she graduates from Harvard.

Philosophy, not politics, was the subject of Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s Commencement address at the Harvard Kennedy School on Wednesday. “This is not a public policy speech,” the 2016 Republican presidential contender told the graduates, as he challenged them to reach for a deeper purpose.

Six new officers have been elected to Harvard University’s Board of Overseers, and another half dozen as directors of the Harvard Alumni Association.

Harvard’s annual Commencement is both a conclusion and a start for those graduating. But the day also is a gathering of the far-flung Crimson clan under tents and trees in…

The Harvard Gazette takes a look back on 2017–18.

In its first nine months, Harvard’s Inequality Initiative pursued a three-pronged effort, beginning with a public symposium last fall.

Harvard University awarded a total of 8,042 degrees and certificates over the 2017–18 academic year.

Three student orators — Pete Davis, Christopher Egi, and Phoebe Lakin — will deliver speeches in both English and Latin during Morning Exercises in Tercentenary Theatre.

Sallie (Penny) Chisholm, Rita Dove, Harvey Fineberg, Ricardo Lagos Escobar, George Lewis received honorary degrees from Harvard at its 367th Commencement Day ceremony.

Nigerian novelist Ngozi Adichie, Harvard’s Class Day speaker, urges graduating seniors to ‘protect and value the truth’ in their own lives.

The ROTC commissioning ceremony honored new officers in the armed forces.

Penny S. Pritzker ’81, former U.S. Secretary of Commerce and past Harvard Overseer, and Carolyn A. “Biddy” Martin, president of Amherst College and former Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have been chosen as the newest members of the Harvard Corporation.

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences presented the Centennial Medal to four distinguished alumni who have made fundamental and lasting contributions to knowledge, to their disciplines, to their colleagues, and to society.

Priscilla Guo ’18 found 49 of the 50 states use predictive algorithms in bail, pretrial, and sentencing hearings. Her thesis uncovers their flaws.

Harvard College senior Jacob Scherba’s own health and his sister’s affliction with a rare disorder influenced his merging engineering and medicine.

In her final Baccalaureate Address as Harvard’s president, transformation was a theme Drew Faust returned to repeatedly.

Poet Kevin Young ’92 had something of a homecoming as he returned to speak before the honored students and faculty at Harvard’s annual Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises.

Harvard’s incoming and outgoing presidents sit down with Gazette to talk about the value of humility in decision-making and the biggest challenges facing higher education.

Harvard Law School grad Raj Salhotra launched a program to provide mentors to help others find path to college.

In the Experience series, Paul Farmer talks Partners In Health, “Harvard-Haiti,” and making the lives of the poor the fight of his life.

For the 30th consecutive year, neighboring churches and institutions will ring their bells at the conclusion of Harvard’s 367th Commencement Exercises.

A gift from Josh Friedman ’76, M.B.A. ’80, J.D. ’82, and Beth Friedman, longstanding benefactors of the University, will double the resources available for high-risk, high-reward science, allowing more of the most ambitious research projects at Harvard to move forward.

The annual awards created through a gift from James A. Star ’83 fund research unlikely to be funded through other programs — risky studies with the potential to contribute to radical new understandings of our world.

Susan L. Carney, a federal appeals court judge, has been elected president of Harvard University’s Board of Overseers. Gwill E. York, co-founder and managing director of Lighthouse Capital Partners, will be vice chair.

At the annual meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association on Commencement Day, President Drew Faust will present the 2018 Harvard Medal to Robert Coles ’50, Robert N. Shapiro ’72, J.D. ’78, and Alice “Acey” Welch ’53 in recognition of their service to the University.

After James Venable graduates in May with his bachelor’s degree, he heads to Yale Divinity School to work on a master’s degree in divinity, with plans to return to Harvard for a master’s in theological studies, and go on to Princeton for a doctorate in African-American religion.

As Susan Morris Novick ’85 concludes her tenure as Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) president, she is optimistic about the future of the HAA as she prepares to hand the reins to her successor, Margaret Wang ’09.

The first woman to earn tenure at the GSD and the first to chair the department of architecture has made a career of making statements.

So far 82 percent of the students admitted to the Class of 2022 have notified Harvard they will matriculate to campus this August.