Recent Posts

“Today” Comes to Class Day

June 3, 2009 • Commencement Matt Lauer’s advice for the class of 2009, plus student speeches

Leadership Tips from a “Soldier Scholar”

June 3, 2009 • Commencement General David Petraeus speaks at the ROTC commissioning ceremony.

Significant Contributors to Society and Scholarship

June 3, 2009 • Commencement

Life As Improvisation: The Baccalaureate Service

June 2, 2009 • Commencement President Drew Faust calls the class of 2009 to find opportunity in uncertainty.

“Habits Are Values in Disguise”: The Phi Beta Kappa Exercises

June 2, 2009 • Commencement Poems about optimisim and humility, and an oration on sustaining the earth

Commencement Kickoff: Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises

June 2, 2009 • Commencement

2 In This Mass Extinction, the Enemy Is Us

May 27, 2009 • Harvard in the News

7 EVP Forst to Leave Harvard

May 26, 2009 • Breaking News Updated May 28. Executive Vice President Ed Forst, who joined Harvard last fall and helped shape the University’s financial strategy, is returning to New York.

1 Faculty of Arts and Sciences Details Initial Budget Cuts

May 11, 2009 • Breaking News

1 Ashbery Accepts Harvard Arts Medal

May 1, 2009 • Breaking News A ceremony to honor poet John Ashbery ’49 kicks off Arts First weekend.

Diaghilev and His Geniuses

May 1, 2009 • Extras The Harvard Theatre Collection opens an exhibition and hosts a symposium on Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes.

3 Pardis Sabeti

May 1, 2009 • Extras For this systems biologist, the interaction of science and music is multiplicative.

4 Mnemonic Masks

May 1, 2009 • Extras Inspired by his Yup’ik heritage, Phillip Charette educates through his art.

9 Vistas of Perfection

May 1, 2009 • Extras A profile of writer James Agee, at Harvard and beyond

Class on the Grass

May 1, 2009 • Extras Golfer Emily Balmert, and the women’s varsity team, have reached milestones.