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Photograph by Jim HarrisonCongressman John Lewis spoke at Drew Faust's last afternoon exercises as Harvard president.
2018 newly elected Harvard Overseers and HAA directors
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The 367th Commencement: the student speakers, the honorary-degree recipients, and the full spectacle of Harvard’s Morning Exercises
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Tomiko Brown-Nagin
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The legal historian will become dean on July 1.
David Shumway Jones
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Historian David Shumway Jones warns that the cost of precision medicine might lead to higher levels of inequality in healthcare.
Dean Stanley Shaw and Dr. Deborah Schrag
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Physicians bring data science to bear on patient health and wellness information.
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Bill Gates
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The Microsoft co-founder talked about his life as a philanthropist—and answered myriad student questions.
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Interventions that mobilize family support networks have powerful effects.
Illustration by Wenting Li
The Undergraduate chooses a concentration.
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2018 newly elected Harvard Overseers and HAA directors
From left: Penny S. Pritzker and Carolyn A. “Biddy” Martin
Photograph on right courtesy of Amherst College
New Corporation members and Overseers’ leaders
Janet Pascal ’84 crafts the new final line for “Fair Harvard,” debuting this Commencement.
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Cyclists at the Harvest River Bridge, which opened last year on the newest section of the trail
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Cycling the Neponset River Greenway
Sleeper’s summer home sprawls across Eastern Point, with views of Gloucester Harbor.
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A sprawling house museum celebrates decorative arts and the creative spirit of Henry Davis Sleeper.
Among the museum's “Ugly Truth” figures are Aunt Jemima and golliwogs.
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The National Black Doll Museum
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn on Commencement Day, 1978
Photograph copyright © 1978 by Christopher S. Johnson
Echoes of a Harvard Commencement speech 40 years on
A fellow Peace Corps volunteer took this snapshot of the author (at left) during a school visit in Africa.
Courtesy of Michael S. Knapp
A century apart, two alumni find each other in the American South.
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Wim Wenders speaking at Sanders Theatre on April 2
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Wim Wenders delivers the final installment in the 2018 Norton Lectures on Cinema.
Sleeper’s summer home sprawls across Eastern Point, with views of Gloucester Harbor.
Photograph by Eric Roth/Courtesy of Historic New England
A sprawling house museum celebrates decorative arts and the creative spirit of Henry Davis Sleeper.
Abbi of Bacabi (1978), among Cannon’s last and unfinished works
Image © 2017 Estate of T. C. Cannon.
Works by T.C. Cannon at the Peabody Essex Museum
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Cyclists at the Harvest River Bridge, which opened last year on the newest section of the trail
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Cycling the Neponset River Greenway
Harvard sprinter Gabby Thomas ’19
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Late winter and early spring highlights
Seth Towns ’20, the Ivy League Player of the Year, scored a game-high 24 points in the Crimson’s 74-55 victory over Cornell in the Ivy tournament semifinals.
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The basketball teams fall short of the NCAAs.
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Dr. Abramson, Dr. Hawking, and the wand
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A close call on Commencement day
David Davidson
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A dining executive on Harvard’s changing food environment
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An historian tracks the death penalty’s persistence in America.
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