Sasha the University police community engagement dog wearing Commencement regalia

Commencement Confetti

Seniors’ work plans, Sasha stylin’, reunion sonnet, and more

Phi Beta Kappa orator Drew Gilpin Faust

The Week’s Words

Commencement rhetoric on threats to higher education, melding divergent views, doing good, and combating the loss of trust

Commencement photos: Kennedy Schoolers ready to rule the world; Isabella E. Peña ’24 belts out the national anthem; a professor-student pose; ; pro-Palestinian protestors preparing to walk out

Commencement 372 7/8

Harvard’s tumultuous year ends in modified festival rites, amid passionate protests.

by John S. Rosenberg

Honorary degree recipients Joy Harjo, Jennie Chin Hansen, and Sylvester James Gates Jr.

Honoris Causa

Harvard’s 2024 honorary degree recipients

Man wearing red Harvard baseball cap addresses audience form podium

Harvard Alumni Day with Courtney B. Vance

Protest interruptions and a call to do “the right thing” 

by Lydialyle Gibson

President Alan Garber greets Bertram A. “Bert” Huberman ’44  and George Post ’45

Heads of the Parade

And a precedent-setting eightieth Harvard reunion

by Nina Pasquini

Radcliffe Dean Tomiko Brown Nagin presented the Radcliffe Medal to Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

Using the Law for Good

2024 Radcliffe Medalist Sonia Sotomayor on civic engagement and optimism

by Max J. Krupnick

Radcliffe Yard

Equality and Justice

A Radcliffe Day panel discusses pluralism and progress. 

by Nina Pasquini

Law School graduates in black caps and gowns cheer

Close Call

Ending a tumultuous year, Harvard tradition is served in the 373rd Commencement—with plenty of thunder from the stage.

by John S. Rosenberg , Max J. Krupnick

Protestors walking out of Harvard Commencement

Protesters Walk Out of Harvard Commencement

Pro-Palestine activists hold “The People’s Commencement”

by Max J. Krupnick