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In the fall 1911, members of both Andover Theological Seminary and Harvard Divinity School gathered in the chapel of the newly built Andover Hall to dedicate the building. One hundred years later, the building is, in many ways, the centerpiece of life at...

On April 16, a special event was held at HDS to recognize Jane I. Smith, associate dean for faculty and academic affairs, for her years of service to Harvard Divinity School. Photos: Evgenia Eliseeva Photos from the event can be viewed through the HDS...

View selected images from the Diploma Awarding Ceremony and Commencement activities held on May 24, 2012. Photos from the event can be viewed through the HDS Flickr account. Photos by Tony Rinaldo.

The Multireligious Service of Thanksgiving for the HDS Class of 2012 took place on May 23 in the Memorial Church. Photos from the event can be viewed through the HDS Flickr account. Photos by Steve Gilbert

At Convocation on August 30, new HDS Dean David N. Hempton drew on the memory of violence he witnessed in Northern Ireland to offer hopeful visions for the future. Photos from the event can be viewed through the HDS Flickr account. Photos by Steve Gilbert

The annual Ingersoll Lecture on Immortality was presented on December 6 by Toni Morrison, the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities, Emerita, Princeton University, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Presidential Medal of...

View a selection of photos of Ronald F. Thiemann, who passed away on November 29, 2012, at age 66. Thiemann was long a vital presence at Harvard Divinity School, from 1986, when he was appointed Dean and John Lord O'Brian Professor of Divinity, and in the...

The Rev. Gloria E. White-Hammond, MDiv '97, was the first speaker in a series of Divinity Dialogues, held October 11 in Divinity Chapel. White-Hammond is the co-pastor of Bethel AME Church, Boston, executive director of My Sister's Keeper, and a retired...

The annual endowed Dudleian Lecture was delivered on February 28, 2013, by Sister Mary Hughes, prioress of the Dominican Sisters of Amityville and former president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. The title of her lecture was "Priesthood...

View a slideshow of images from the Business across Religious Traditions seminar, held February 1 in New York City. Photos by Wendy Barrows. Bill George, Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School and former chairman and CEO of Medtronic...

Nearly a hundred alumni and friends flocked to the HDS campus on Friday, April 5, for Leadership Day. Attendees heard from University President Drew Gilpin Faust and Dean David Hempton on the role of the study of religion at Harvard; cheered as Dean's...

On April 4, the HDS community celebrated the inaugural cohort of Gomes Memorial Honors recipients. Four distinguished alumni were honored: Reza Aslan, MTS '99; Susannah Heschel, MTS '76; the Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi, MTS '03; and Sarah Sentilles, MDiv...