Hillary Clinton To Visit Cambridge, Receive Radcliffe Medal

CAMBRIDGE, MA — Hillary Clinton will be in Cambridge at the end of the month to receive an award as part of Harvard's commencement week events.

The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University announced the former first lady and Secretary of State Clinton, will be awarded its Radcliffe Medal on May 25.

The institute awards the Radcliffe Medal annually to “an individual who has had a transformative impact on society” according to the website.

"As an attorney, a first lady, a senator, a secretary of state, and the first woman nominated by a major party for the U.S. presidency, Secretary Clinton has worked tirelessly over the course of decades in the public eye, often under unprecedented scrutiny, to make meaningful change," the institute wrote on its website.

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright who also has a Radcliffe medal will be on hand to give a tribute to Clinton before the main event; a conversation between Clinton and Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey.

The event is schedule to happen Friday, May 25, at 10:30 a.m. at the Radcliffe Yard at 10 Garden Street

The day’s program will open with a panel titled “Toward a New Global Architecture? America’s Role in a Changing World.”

Nicholas Burns, the Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations at Harvard Kennedy School and a career diplomat who served as US ambassador to NATO and under secretary of state for political affairs, will moderate a discussion on issues of the US role in global affairs featuring the foreign policy experts Michèle Flournoy David Ignatius, Meghan O’Sullivan, and Anne-Marie Slaughter.

The school said it expects a record turnout at Radcliffe Day, though tickets are required.

The school said on its website there are still some tickets for purchase on a space-available basis to those who sign up for the Radcliffe Day 2018 lottery here.

Or you can just watch the event live from the comfort of your couch via the live webcast.

Past recipients of the Radcliffe Medal include former U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and former U.S. Senator Elizabeth Dole.

-Information from the State House news service was used in this story

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