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Update: This event has been postponed due to inclement weather in New York City, which prevented Professor Cone from being able to travel. Tragedies of the past year, including the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner in New York...

The following personal reflection was written by Adriana Krasniansky and Ross Feehan, students in HDS 3092: “Ethical Discernment in Business Contexts.” During times of crisis, opportunities exist. This was a key message that Audrey Choi, Morgan Stanley’s...

Harvard Divinity School has announced that alumnus Thomas M. Chappell received the Dean's Distinguished Service Award on Thursday, April 8, 2010, during the annual meeting of the School's Leadership Council. A 1991 graduate of the School, Chappell is the...

Kevin Madigan has been Assistant Professor of the History of Christianity at Harvard Divinity School since 2000. His specialty is high-medieval scholastic biblical exegesis and theology, which is the topic of his most recent book, Olivi and the...

On Wednesday, May 27, a new Harvard Commencement tradition took place. Latino/a students from across the University gathered for the first Harvard Latin@ Graduation Ceremony on the eve of Commencement to celebrate their accomplishments with friends and...

After 22 years of teaching, writing and publishing, and serving in various academic and administrative roles from Colorado to Connecticut, Jane I. Smith returned to Harvard Divinity School on July 1 to serve as its new associate dean for faculty and...

In 2016, the Harvard Crimson named HDS’s Mark Jordan one of the top 15 professors at Harvard University. Holding professorships at both the Divinity School and at Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Jordan examines the intersection between...

Rockefeller Hall at Harvard Divinity School has been awarded LEED Gold certification through the U.S. Green Building Council. LEED, which stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is a rating system that assesses a building's potential...

Harvard Divinity School Dean David N. Hempton commemorated the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks today with a visit to New York City, where he challenged students at one of the nation's elite independent schools to "better understand both the...

Wallace D. Best has accepted an appointment as Assistant Professor of African American Religious Studies at Harvard Divinity School, and will join the Faculty of Divinity in July 2004. "The addition of a superb American religious historian to our faculty...

In her recently published book The Sea Can Wash Away All Evils: Modern Marine Pollution and the Ancient Cathartic Ocean (Columbia University Press), Kimberley C. Patton, who is Professor of the Comparative and Historical Study of Religion at HDS, examines...

Each spring, Harvard Divinity School's Office of Ministry Studies organizes the Billings Preaching Prize Competition, an annual preaching competition open to second- and third-year MDiv students. The finalists delivered their sermons at the Wednesday Noon...