Joshua Greene receives Faculty Prize for Excellence in General Education
The award recognizes outstanding course design and teaching that exemplifies the program’s pedagogical aims.
Academic Excellence
Phi Beta Kappa speakers urge grads to build character
“The scholar’s basic task is a form of bravery.”
‘Effort still matters’ in age of AI, Garber says in baccalaureate address
President urges Class of 2026 to seek out the mountains worth climbing.
Harvard Radcliffe Institute awards 2026 Fay Prizes for outstanding theses
A big data study of New Zealand households on how where you live can determine how you live, solving a widespread gastrointestinal mystery, and how to analyze and incorporate the role of luck when it comes to bad decisions
Faculty decisively approve grading changes
Cap on A grades and shift from GPA to ‘average percentile rank’ set to go into effect fall 2027
Graduating at 79 — with her daughters cheering her on
When Rosie Rines graduated from Boston’s Roslindale High School in 1964, college didn’t seem like an option. But later this month, at 79 years old, she’ll don a cap and gown and receive her undergraduate degree from Harvard Extension School — with her daughters cheering her on.
The bottom line on sustainability
A leader at Estée Lauder Companies, she deepened her expertise at Harvard Extension School.
Laser-focused on applied physics
Arman Amirzhan chose to study materials science as an undergraduate at Imperial College in the United Kingdom thinking he’d learn about cutting edge technology like nanomaterials. Instead, he got ceramics and metallurgy – classical areas of the field, but not his area of interest. He was worried he’d picked the wrong field of study, and because of the U.K. educational system, changing majors would be much harder than in the U.S.
Looking for Ireland’s ‘invisible people’
Andrew Bair is set to graduate from Harvard Griffin GSAS in May 2026 with a Ph.D. in anthropology. He talks about his research challenging the accepted chronology of Irish settlement in the Middle Ages, how his study of archaeology and computer science at Columbia led him eventually to Harvard Griffin GSAS, and about growing up in a curious family and literally growing out of his dream of being an astronaut.
Shaping the world his granddaughters will inherit
At 68, he earned a master’s in sustainability at Harvard Extension School.
From software engineer to design engineer
After three years as a Waymo software engineer, Luke Fiorante wanted a change. He’d been coding ever since he was a computer science major at Brown University, but the Vancouver native knew he could do more. Also interested in design and the arts, he decided to search for master’s programs focused on design and engineering.