Wednesday, June 3
8:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Check-in at Headquarters
Cabot Library, Science Center
Please come to headquarters to check in when you arrive on campus. You will receive your name badge, favor, additional Reunion materials, and your House/dorm room key and assignment, if you are staying on campus.
Please know that there is also a hospitality space at the bottom of Sanders where coffee and seating will be available during both the morning and afternoon sessions.
8:00 - 9:00 a.m.
Breakfast
9:00 - 10:15 a.m.
Health Information: What to believe? Who to believe?
Sanders
Moderator: Edward L. Trimble, MD, MPH, Special Volunteer, US National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health; Co-chair, Women's Health and Empowerment Network
Panelists:
- Ernest L. Carter, MD, PhD, Director of Research and Innovation, Center for Excellence in Public Health Leadership, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- Robin S. Goland, MD, J. Merrill Eastman Professor of Clinical Diabetes, Co-Director, Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
- Philippe Weintraub, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center
Week in, week out, we seek accurate information on health, relevant to ourselves, family members, and friends. We get bombarded with advice, often contradictory, from social media, mainstream media, podcasts, influencers, relatives, and acquaintances. Who should we believe? How do we verify what to believe? A panel of physicians from our class will tackle these questions, from their own perspectives and well as in the advice they give in their own writing, presentations, and clinical advice to patients, family, and friends.
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
AI and College Education
In our era, we shifted from paper, pens, and slide rules to pocket calculators (and, for a few of us, teletypes). Half a century later, AI and AI-native students will bring about a far greater shift in all concentrations. Join classmates Nick Lemann, Mark Penn, and Alfred Spector (moderator), along with Danoff Dean of Harvard College David Deming (HKS ‘10) and undergraduate William Gao (‘27) for this panel on how artificial intelligence will reshape college. Our conversation will explore the future of teaching – will chatbots revive the Socratic dialogue at scale? We will consider the challenge of defining and measuring academic excellence when students may have a digital assistant that mirrors an Austen or da Vinci genius. Most importantly, we will discuss the true goals of classes and the college degree. What will Harvard mean when it welcomes graduates “into the fellowship of educated individuals”? We may touch on the question of whether AI will provide more opportunity to all students or disproportionately advantage those with great talent. We hope this panel, with its focus on a topic familiar to us all, will illuminate at least one aspect of a future shaped by AI. Bring your questions for the panel!
Alfred Spector, MIT Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Alfred earned his PhD in computer science at Stanford, then worked with a hedge fund in the area of artificial intelligence. Before joining MIT, he served as Vice President of Research and Special Initiatives at Google.
David Deming, Dean of Harvard College
Deming is the Dean of Harvard College. An economist by training, he has focused on higher education, economic inequality, and the future of the labor market. He holds teaching appointments in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School of Education, and the Kennedy School of Government.
Mark Penn, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Stagwell
Mark leads a global marketing group. He was formerly chief strategy officer of Microsoft Corporation and chief executive officer of Burson-Marsteller, communications and public relations firm. Penn is the author of the books Microtrends (2007) and Microtrends Squared (2018).
Nick Lemann, Former Dean, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Nick is an American writer and academic, and is the former dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1999. Lemann was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022.
William Gao, Student, Harvard Class of 2028
William is working toward a dual degree in Computer Science and Physics. He has studied in the area of statistical reinforcement learning and is doing research at the Harvard Kempner Institute of Artificial Intelligence. He is working with a Bytedance seed company to generalize imitation learning.
12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Class Luncheon
Science Center Plaza Tent
Boxed lunch to be provided.
Mass with Eminence, the Cardinal of Washington, Bob McElroy, at St. Paul’s Church at 12:00pm. Please connect with Bruce Belfiore if you have any questions. If you plan to attend the Mass, there will be a boxed lunch available for you after.
1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Memorial Service Rehearsal
Memorial Church
2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Memorial Service
Memorial Church
3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Cliffe Notes Screening
Science Center Hall C
Join classmates and guests for a screening of the documentary ‘Cliffe Notes.” Crafted from over a hundred zoom interviews with the Radcliffe class of 1975 by Emmy Award-winning Filmmaker Pamela Hogan ’77 in collaborating with Radcliffe’s 75 Oral History Project. Both men and women are invited to join.
6:00 - 10:00 p.m.
Class Dinner
Radcliffe Quad Tent
Please know that the tent will be on grass and heels are discouraged. The Kroks will be having a brief performance.
