Notary Public

The following SEAS staff members are authorized by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to perform notarizations for members of the SEAS community for professional and personal matters (see below for more details).
 

Brandon Tilghman - Allston, by appointment only.
btilghman@seas.harvard.edu
(617) 495-5688

Jules Bodden - Allston, by appointment only.
boddenj@seas.harvard.edu
(617) 496-1595

Campus Service Center - Notary Public Services - Cambridge, by appointment only.
https://www.campusservicecenter.harvard.edu/services/notary-public-services

A notary public (or notary or public notary) is a public officer constituted by law to serve the public in non-contentious matters usually concerned with estates, deeds, powers-of-attorney, and foreign and international business.

A notary's main functions are to administer oaths and affirmations, take affidavits and statutory declarations, witness and authenticate the execution of certain classes of documents, take acknowledgments of deeds and other conveyances, protest notes and bills of exchange, provide notice of foreign drafts, prepare marine protests in cases of damage, provide exemplifications and notarial copies, and perform certain other official acts depending on the jurisdiction.

Any such act is known as a notarization. The term notary public only refers to common-law notaries and should not be confused with civil-law notaries.

[Source: Wikipedia]