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Politics

Colombian Presidential Candidate and HKS Grad Miguel Uribe Dies at 39 After Campaign Shooting

Miguel Uribe Turbay, a Colombian senator and presidential candidate with a 2022 degree from the Harvard Kennedy School, died Monday of injuries sustained from a June shooting at a campaign event. He was 39.

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FAS

Harvard Professor Thomas Bisson, ‘Exceptional’ Medievalist, Remembered for Dedication to Scholarship

Thomas N. Bisson, a professor emeritus in medieval history at Harvard, died on June 28 at the age of 94. His family and colleagues remembered him as a meticulous scholar with an eye for his subjects’ humanity, and as a “caring presence” in students’ lives.

College

Tom Lehrer ’47, Mathematician and Musician Who Set Wicked Satire to Cheery Tunes, Dies at 97

Thomas A. Lehrer ’47 — a beloved musician and mathematics instructor who set sardonic commentary to upbeat piano melodies — died on July 26. He was 97.

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Harvard Law School

Harvard Law School Professor Richard Fallon Remembered as Lucid Scholar, Committed Instructor

Harvard Law School professor Richard H. Fallon Jr. died earlier this month at age 73. His students and colleagues remembered him as a clear-eyed scholar, dedicated to students and possessed of a quiet but ready wit.

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Harvard Law School

Harvard Law School Professor Richard Fallon Dies at 73

Harvard Law School professor and internationally renowned constitutional law scholar Richard H. Fallon Jr. died on Sunday. He was 73.

David Gergen
Politics

HKS Professor David Gergen Remembered as Adept Washington Insider, Dedicated Public Servant

Harvard Kennedy School professor David Gergen — who advised four United States presidents and served as a prominent political commentator — died on Saturday. He was 83.

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Politics

‘The Bravest Among Us’: HKS Peers and Instructors Remember Melissa Hortman, Slain Minnesota Representative

Minnesota state representative Melissa A. Hortman graduated from a Harvard Kennedy School program in 2018. Former instructors and classmates were left grieving when she was killed by an assassin’s bullets on Saturday.

Harvard Law School

Former Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter ’61 Remembered as ‘the Model of a Justice’

Former Supreme Court Associate Justice David H. Souter ’61 died earlier this month at his home in New Hampshire. He was 85.

Harvard Kennedy School

Former HKS Dean Joseph Nye Remembered as a Preeminent Scholar of International Relations

Nye, a towering scholar and policymaker who spent the last 60 years at the center of international security debates in Washington and Cambridge, died Tuesday. He was 88.

Joseph Nye IOP Forum
Harvard Kennedy School

Former HKS Dean, Leading International Relations Scholar Joseph Nye Dead at 88

Former Harvard Kennedy School dean Joseph S. Nye Sr. died at 88 on Tuesday. Nye, who served as assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs under President Bill Clinton, was one of the most influential thinkers in contemporary international relations theory.

Dennis Thompson
Government

Dennis Thompson, Founder of the Safra Center for Ethics, Remembered as Revolutionary Thinker

Thompson, the founding director of the Harvard Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics who had taught at Harvard since 1986, died March 30 in Peterborough, New Hampshire. He was 84.

Christopher Jencks
Research

Sociologist Christopher Jencks Remembered As a Fearless Skeptic, Exceptional Mentor

Jencks, who moved from Northwestern University to Harvard Kennedy School in 1996, died at his home on Saturday, Feb. 8 from complications of Alzheimer's disease. He was 88.

Stephan Thernstrom
Interfaculty Initiatives

Historian Stephan Thernstrom Remembered as Humble Pioneer, Leading Opponent of Affirmative Action

Stephan Thernstrom, a social historian and strong opponent of affirmative action who taught at Harvard for over thirty years, died Jan. 23 in Arlington, Virginia.

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College

Harvard Junior Lakota Tolloak Remembered as an Energetic Mentor, Supportive Friend

Tolloak, a junior in Pforzheimer House concentrating in Integrative Biology on the premedical track, died on Jan. 17 after a brief illness. He was 21.

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FAS

Robert Wolff ’53-’54, Social Studies’ Last Founding Father, Remembered as a Public-Spirited Philosopher

Robert P. Wolff ’53-’54, a political philosopher and activist who was the last surviving co-founder of Harvard’s Social Studies concentration, died in January at 91.

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