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Senior Creates Caregiving Cultivation App

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Kai Wong '26 (left) and the home care team in Shiroishi, Japan.

In Brief: Harvard College Recognizes 71 Students with Hoopes Prize

In Brief: 15 Harvard Students Named Inaugural Laidlaw Scholars

In Brief: Ten from Harvard College named 2026 Knight-Hennessy Scholars

Students cheering in the crowd while wearing their regalia at Commencement.

Commencement 2026

The 375th Harvard Commencement brought joy, reflection, and full-circle moments to the forefront of campus.

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Pink tulips by the river with a rowing team on the water and brick campus buildings in the background.

A Remarkable Year of Achievement at Harvard College

Students and alumni earned prestigious honors recognizing excellence in research, scholarship, leadership, creativity, and public impact

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Danoff Dean of Harvard College, David Deming, smiling while wearing regalia at the 2026 Harvard Commencement.

Deming summons ‘power of gratitude’ in valediction address

Commencement Day opened with a final assignment for Harvard College’s Class of 2026: impromptu thank-you notes.

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Three female students graduating in the Harvard College Class of 2026 smile together on Commencement Day.

Pictures of joy, friendship fill the Yard before Commencement

Graduates queueing up for the big ceremony paused to reflect and soak it all in.

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Cancer turned her into a scientist

Diagnosis transformed Mary Cipperman ’26 into a hyperproductive student researcher with diverse interests in physics, medicine, and AI.

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Many of the backpacks on display in the Yard were paired with the stories of the students who carried them.

Starting a conversation on college suicide

Lawrence Summers at the unveiling of his portrait, marking his presidency from 2001 to 2006.

‘Do more and do better’

Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, shared their vision for the Kempner Institute, a “one-of-a-kind institute in the world for studying intelligence.”

Breaking barriers to get to breakthroughs

“We don’t just do astronomy, we build the instruments. This makes us tremendously desirable as a builder of telescope technology,” said Lisa Kewley, describing the center’s many strengths.

New director plots fresh course for the CfA

The gate outside Lamont Library.

Student committee for presidential search named

Theda Skocpol displays her collection of badges from early U.S. fraternal groups.

Braking for badges

Image of Head Football Coach Tim Murphy.

‘If you stay the same in everything you do as things around you are changing, eventually you’re going to hit a wall. You just have to adapt and evolve and change.’

Image of Harvard Gate.

Solemn stewardship

Pablo Gonzalez (left) and Alejandro de la Fuente install “El Pasado Mío / My Own Past,” a new Afro-Cuban art exhibition at the Cooper Gallery.

Rethinking Cuban art

Flooding has devastated Jackson, Miss., in recent weeks. "These crises are complex," says Ian Miller, a Harvard historian and a member of the Committee on Climate Education. "They’re difficult to understand and trace to a single origin, but they are — I think we all can agree on this point, finally, belatedly — linked to one degree or another to global climate change."

Grappling with climate change through deeper learning, real-world action

Image of Yosvany Terry on the left and Alicia Hall Moran on the right

African diaspora explored through performance art

Professor Katherine Merseth teaching in front of a class

A week of firsts, and the first of a last

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