Courtesy of Stephanie Mitchell/ Harvard Staff Photographer

Lawrence S. Bacow

Lawrence S. Bacow will serve as the 29th president of Harvard University.

Local museum directors in conversation at Radcliffe on Sept. 25.

Local museum directors in conversation at Radcliffe on Sept. 25.

James E. Ryan, a professor of law and of civil liberties and human rights at the University of Virginia School of Law, has been named dean of the Graduate School of Education. Ryan will take the helm of the Ed School on Sept. 1.

SROTC

Army Col. Twala D. Mathis (right), commander of the 2nd ROTC Brigade, joins Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for Harvard's new Army ROTC office.