Radcliffe Day is the Institute's annual celebration of women, as well as the alumnae and fellows of Radcliffe College and the Radcliffe Institute. Held each year the day after Harvard's Commencement, Radcliffe Day begins with a Commemorative Service, continues with an awards ceremony recognizing outstanding alumnae of Radcliffe, and concludes with the Radcliffe Day Luncheon held in Radcliffe Yard, an event featuring the presentation of the Radcliffe Institute Medal. Radcliffe Day also celebrates the conclusion of Radcliffe Reunion Week.

Radcliffe Day 2008

Radcliffe Day will take place on Friday, June 6, 2008. Registration is required. For a listing of the day's events, please see the Radcliffe Day Schedule.

Award Winners

Alumnae Recognition Awards:
Margaret Kemeny '68
Cancer surgeon, director of the Queens Cancer Center at Queens Hospital Center, and cofounder and past president of the Association of Women Surgeons

Anne H. Manson '83
Conductor, former music director of the Kansas City Symphony, and first woman to conduct at the Salzburg Festival

Francine C. Prose '68, AM '69
Author of the New York Times best-seller Reading Like a Writer (HarperCollins, 2006), as well as fourteen books of fiction, including Blue Angel (HarperCollins, 2000), a finalist for the National Book Award

Graduate Society Awards:
Rounaq Jahan '68, PhD' 70
Political scientist, senior research scholar at the Southern Asian Institute, and adjunct professor of international affairs at the School of International and Public Affairs, both at Columbia University

Harriet Ritvo '68, PhD '75
Historian, Arthur J. Conner Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and author of The Platypus and the Mermaid, and Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination (Harvard University Press, 1998) and The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures of the Victorian Age (Harvard University Press, 1989)

Jane Rainie Opel '50 Young Alumna Award:
Rebecca Onie '98, JD '03
Cofounder and executive director of Project HEALTH

Distinguished Service Awards:
Mary Cunningham Bailey '48
Elisabeth (Betsy) R. Nelson Hatfield '58
Elise Odmann Parker '48, HRPBA '58
Eleanor Wilson Williams '58, '83
Susan (Sue) Williamson '58