A celebration of ideas
It’s not every day that you get to attend a birthday party with more than 900 of your best friends. For Radcliffe Day on Friday, more than 900 alumnae and alumni, current students, fellows, faculty, and University leaders will celebrate a milestone anniversary: 15 years of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, founded in 1999, and 135 years of Radcliffe, founded as the Harvard Annex in 1879. “On Radcliffe Day, we reflect on the past, savor the present, and imagine the future. We celebrate what connects them all: the pursuit of knowledge, a dedication to excellence, and a spirit of inquiry,” said Dean Lizabeth Cohen RI ’02. A highlight will be when Cohen awards the Radcliffe Medal to Harvard President Drew Faust, whose combination of scholarship of 19th-century America and leadership of Radcliffe and Harvard establish her as “a historian who is making history.” Faust, the first female president of Harvard and the Lincoln...