Notable moments from Harvard’s 2021-22 academic year – Harvard Gazette
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May
Katherine N. Lapp, Harvard’s executive vice president since 2009, announced that she will step down from the role. Leading Harvard’s administrative and operational functions, Lapp played an integral role in managing the University’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including testing and tracing, the technology infrastructure that enabled remote learning, and the return to campus.
Led by scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, an international team produced a second portrait of a supermassive black hole, this time lurking 27,000 light-years away at the center of Earth’s galaxy.
The Harvard Graduate School of Design announced the Master’s in Real Estate, a new degree program for individuals seeking to learn how real estate can advance beneficial spatial, social, and environmental outcomes in cities and metropolitan areas worldwide.
Tribal historic preservation officer for White Earth Nation, Jaime Arsenault presided over a ceremony at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology that returned two sacred scrolls and a pipe tomahawk to White Earth, which is an Anishinaabe nation (and its ancestors part of Anishinaabe spiritual and communal life).
The Harvard Alumni Association’s new president, Allyson Mendenhall ’90, M.L.A. ’99, is committed to creating inclusive alumni experiences.
Harvard University celebrated the Classes of 2020, 2021, and 2022 with live ceremonies, featuring principal speakers Merrick Garland and Jacinda Ardern.
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