The Division of Medical Sciences, which houses the Graduate School's interfaculty PhD programs with Harvard Medical School, awarded the most PhDs, with 56 students crossing the Sanders stage to receive their diplomas. Following in size were Engineering and Applied Sciences (with 40 graduates) and Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Economics (each with 19).
The day's activities kicked off as usual with an early-morning, traffic-stopping procession down Oxford Street to Sever Quadrangle, as GSAS Commencement marshals — led by bagpipers — proudly carried the flags of GSAS and SEAS into Harvard Yard. Following tradition, GSAS candidates once again led all of Harvard's graduates into Tercentenary Theatre.
Two GSAS alumni — Nobel Prize–winning chemist Dudley Herschbach, PhD ’58, and historian and theorist of 20th-century art Rosalind Krauss, PhD ’69 — were among the nine people awarded honorary degrees from Harvard at Commencement. Read complete Commencement coverage in Harvard Magazine. Photographs by Martha Stewart.
