Commencement 2017

Judy Woodruff and the late Gwen Ifill were honored with the 2017 Radcliffe Medal for their groundbreaking work in journalism.

This 360 video puts you in the shoes of a Harvard student experiencing graduation as it unfolds.

One of Harvard’s most famous dropouts returned to receive a degree and encourage the Class of 2017 to go out and make a difference in the world.

Mark Zuckerberg’s speech (as written) for Harvard’s 366th Commencement.

A full day of coverage from Harvard’s 366th Commencement.

Sally Yates, who President Trump fired as acting attorney general when she refused to enforce his tightened travel regulations, said Wednesday that she acted out of a belief that defending the executive order would have meant falsely claiming it was not directed at Muslims.

Today the University awarded a total of 7,066 degrees and certificates.

Harvard’s Afternoon Program speaker Mark Zuckerberg will be among the 10 who will receive honorary degrees during the University’s 366th Commencement.

From huge honors to technological breakthroughs, stunning triumphs to major milestones, the University in 2016–17 had much to celebrate.

Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden tells College seniors to avoid apathy and help shape their nation, during Class Day speech in Harvard Yard.

The Harvard Alumni Association has announced that three alumni will receive the 2017 Harvard Medal.

The incoming Harvard Alumni Association president aims to continue the people-centered leadership of her predecessor.

Six Harvard seniors received inducted into the armed forces at the annual ROTC commissioning ceremony.

Daniel Schlauch is looking to put his talents with numbers to work fighting cancer.

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences awards the Centennial Medal to four outstanding alumni whose contributions to knowledge, to their disciplines, to their colleagues, and to society have made a fundamental and lasting impact.

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study introduces its new class of fellows for 2017-18.

For the 29th consecutive year, neighboring churches and institutions will ring their bells at the conclusion of Harvard’s 366th Commencement Exercises.

Graduating seniors gathered in the Memorial Church for the Baccalaureate Service, a tradition as old as Commencement.

Sherry Turkle was the orator during Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises Tuesday at Sanders Theatre. She was joined by poet and memoirist Mark Doty.

Agnes Igoye brought her fight to end human trafficking from Uganda to Harvard’s Kennedy School.

On June 5, 1947, Secretary of State George C. Marshall stood on the steps of Memorial Church and delivered an address that changed the world. The retired five-star general, credited during World War II with organizing the fastest and biggest military buildup in U.S. history, took just under 11 minutes to announce the creation of one of the largest and most successful international aid programs in history.

Three student orators, Auguste (Gussie) Roc, Jessica Glueck, and Walter Smelt III, were chosen in a speech-writing competition to address Harvard’s Class of 2017.

Damon Clark ’17 will graduate with a greater knowledge of Navajo history and culture and a renewed pride in his indigenous identity.

At Harvard Divinity School, Margaux Fitoussi explored migration as it echoed from her childhood and as it afflicts worlds far from hers.

The Gazette asked a few Harvard faculty to talk about the book that they have reread the most and why they keep coming back.

An impressive range of orators have used the opportunity of delivering seminal speeches at Harvard, reaching not only those in attendance but the nation and sometimes the world.

Bennett Capozzi ’17, a History & Literature concentrator with a Language Citation in Arabic, will travel to Jordan to master the language he learned at Harvard.  

Obasi Shaw ’17, an English concentrator with a secondary on computer science, wrote a rap album for his senior creative writing thesis, a first at the Department of English.

Will Butler of the indie rock band Arcade Fire will graduate from Harvard Kennedy School’s midcareer master’s program with a goal of helping others.

Julia Grotto ’17 combines art, science, and public service to paint a complete picture of her life at Harvard.