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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.

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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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Harvard senior Anastasia Onyango (far right) with siblings (from left) Jesse, Sheila, and Brenda at a rooftop restaurant in North Carolina.

Good days, tough days

Onboard since July 2021, HUPD Chief Victor Clay says he wants to make sure the department is doing “not only the right things and finding ways to function more efficiently, but also being mindful to not tear things apart so much that we would need to reinvent the wheel.”

Police chief recalls his first year of pandemic, progress

Aubree Muse entered Harvard as a pre-med student but fell in love with environmental studies. “I realized this is what I want to spend my life working on,” she said.

Not only game

Elijah Suh ’22 (top right) and his family celebrate his mother's 53rd birthday in Misawa, Japan, last year. Clockwise from top left are siblings Jeremiah, Hannah and Joshua, and parents David and Karen.

Getting through it together

Brian Bertrand plans to use what he learned from his degree in statistics and in Harvard’s Theater, Dance & Media program to help arts organizations maximize their success.

Good with left brain but invested in right as well

“We aim to inclusively engage the entire alumni community across disciplines, decades, Schools, and geographies. It’s a collaborative endeavor …,” says Allyson Mendenhall ’90, M.L.A. ’99, the incoming HAA president.

Community by design

“The more I’ve met people who I thought always had so much ‘more’ than me, I’ve realized that we sometimes have very similar struggles, fears, and hopes for ourselves and our families,” said Lucy Wickings ’22.

Blazing her own path

Tercentenary Theatre, in Harvard Yard, full of college graduates on the day of Commencement.

Commencement Events Schedule

“The goal of the salon is to kind of examine what that might look like. Are there fundamental differences between two fields that prevent them from working together?” asked Julie Heng (center). The salon was founded by Heng, Henry Haimo (left), and Chinmay Deshpande (right).

Bringing 17th-century Enlightenment tradition to Memorial Hall

“It’s familiar, in a way, because I walked down these same hallways for nine years as an undergrad and a grad student. At the same time, it’s also extremely humbling to be in the same department along with many of my advisers and mentors …,” says Norman Yao.

New faculty: Norman Yao

Spring comes to campus with blooming magnolias at Fay House.

Two named to lead Board of Overseers

“Bringing people together from across the University … and watching them put their knowledge to work is one of my favorite things about being president,” said President Larry Bacow.

President’s Innovation Challenge awards $510,000 across 14 ventures

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