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How the 2026 Commencement Identity Reinvents the Shield
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- When:
- May 26, 2026 · 1:34 PM
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- Exhibitions
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In a 1982 memo circulated to staff, Kate Rooney, then associate dean for administration at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), explained the origins of the school’s coat of arms. Like each of Harvard University’s schools, the college, and its houses, the GSD has a distinctive heraldic device: a shield adorned with unique patterns […]