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Jonathan Beasley Named Harvard Hero

June 09, 2014

Jonathan Beasley, assistant director of Harvard Divinity School's Office of Communications, has been chosen as a Harvard Hero for 2014. The Harvard Heroes Recognition Program celebrates the extraordinary "above and beyond" contributions of Harvard staff...

Video: 2014 Diploma Awarding Ceremony

June 06, 2014

The Diploma Awarding Ceremony took place in the Memorial Church on May 29, 2014. The student speaker was Lucia Ruth Hulsether, MDiv '14.

Video: 2014 Multireligious Service of Thanksgiving

June 06, 2014

The Multireligious Service of Thanksgiving for the Class of 2014 took place in the Memorial Church on May 28, 2014. The faculty speaker was Charles Hallisey, Yehan Numata Senior Lecturer on Buddhist Literatures.

Slideshow: 2014 Commencement Activities

June 05, 2014

Sights from the Multireligious Service of Thanksgiving on May 28 and the Diploma Awarding Ceremony on May 29. Photos from the event can be viewed through the HDS Flickr account. Photos by Evgenia Eliseeva.

Meeting of the Minds

June 04, 2014

HDS grad Derek van Bever says crowdsourcing offers a vital benefit for faculty, subverting the often-glacial pace of publishing academic research.

HDS Alumni/Alumnae Council Announces New Membership and Leadership

June 04, 2014

The HDS Alumni/Alumnae Council (AAC) is pleased to announce four new members, who will begin terms of service on July 1, 2014.They are Richard A. Coutinho, MTS '94, LLM '02, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Quardricos Bernard Driskell, MTS '08, of Alexandria...

Audio: Dean Hempton on Religion and Peace

June 03, 2014

Dean David Hempton spoke to members of the Harvard Alumni Association on "Religion and the Promotion of Peace in the 21st Century" on Thursday, May 1, in Cambridge. The talk, which was attended by over 200 alumni leaders from around the University...

Putting Community into Foreign Policy

June 03, 2014

Brooke Davis received a master of theological studies degree from HDS and a master of public policy degree from Harvard Kennedy School on May 29. In a short Q&A, she discusses the value of her HDS education and the ways in which her experiences at Harvard...

Bridging Science and Religion

May 29, 2014

Divinity School graduate and scientist Shelley Brown works to stitch together fields that often bypass each other.

Slideshow: 2014 Business across Religious Traditions

May 29, 2014

On May 21, HDS professor Diana Eck presented "Religious Pluralism and the Global Workplace: The Challenges Ahead" in New York City, as part of the Business across Religious Traditions series, which is made possible through the generosity H. Bruce McEver...

Slideshow: Women, Religion, and Peace-building in Bosnia and Herzegovina

May 29, 2014

On May 15 in New York City, WSRP Research Associate Zilka Spahic Šiljak spoke about her new book, Shining Humanity: Life Stories of Women Peace-builders in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The event moderator was Ann Braude, director of the Women's Studies in...

Portraying a Finer Picture of Islam

May 28, 2014

A day or two after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, journalist Monique Parsons, MTS '91, was glued to her television set, watching the major news organizations' coverage of the events. At some point, one of the anchors asked, "Why do they hate...