Today the University awarded a total of 6,665 degrees and certificates. A breakdown of degrees and programs is listed below.
Harvard College granted a total of 1,554 degrees. Degrees from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences were awarded by Harvard College, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the Graduate School of Design.
All figures include degrees awarded in November 2018 and March and May 2019.
Widely regarded as Europe’s most powerful leader and “Chancellor of the Free World,” Angela Merkel was sworn in as German chancellor on Nov. 22, 2005, the first woman and the first East German to hold the office.
Awardee | Harvard's Alexandra Killewald, Professor of Sociology, is the 2019 recipient of the William Julius Wilson Early Career Award from the American Sociological Association's Section on Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility. The award recognizes a scholar who has made major contributions within 10 years of receiving the degree and will be conferred in August at the ASA Annual Meeting in New York City.
Boston-area stem cell scientists convene to discuss regulation, future research directions, career paths
The Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) convened for its 14th annual retreat on May 21st at Harvard Medical School in the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center. The event was a mix of presentations and panels, with poster sessions and topic tables in the New Research Building’s sunny atrium and courtyard.
Program Highlights
Around 300 HSCI scientists welcomed keynote speaker...
Former Vice President Al Gore issued a stark warning Wednesday about “would-be autocrats” in a blistering call to arms to Harvard’s graduating seniors, decrying attacks on known facts, science, and reason as strongman-like tactics to gather power and weaken democracy.
Gore, who addressed several thousand listeners in Harvard’s Tercentenary Theatre for Class Day, recalled the unrest of his own Harvard graduation 50 years ago. Despite civic turmoil from the Vietnam War, a polarized political system, and a president who “flouted the law” and “exploited division and hate,” those challenges...
