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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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Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand in “The Tragedy of Macbeth.”

Film full of sound and fury in dark pandemic season

Melissa Shang is a first-year student, disability activist, and children's book author. She brought her activism to campus to promote greater accessibility measures.

Raising awareness about disability amid pandemic

Students from ES96 present their end-of-semester project to BASF. Eight juniors worked on a prototype to monitor and remove micro- and nanoplastic particles from drinking water.

Plastic-Free Fresh Water

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Harvard advisers on Omicron surge, shifting protocols

Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner will be celebrated as Hasty Pudding's Man and Woman of the Year.

The stars align for the Pudding Pot

Newly appointed Vice Provost for Research John Shaw will lead efforts to streamline the University’s research-related policies and practices.

John H. Shaw named vice provost for research

Widener Library in Harvard Yard following the first snow of the year.

Alumni committee nominates candidates for Overseers, HAA elected directors

Astronomy Lab manager Allyson Bieryla wheels a portable telescope case on the ramp at the Science Center.

Making the cosmos accessible

E.O. Wilson in 1994. Wilson received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1955, joining its faculty in 1956. Wilson remained at the University the rest of his career.

A trailblazing biologist — and beloved mentor and friend

Benjamin Perry Wenzelberg ’21 wrote the music and libretto for the opera “NIGHTTOWN,” recording a demo of it as part of his thesis submission.

Overture of an opera life

lowell house view through a window

College accepts 740 under early action program

Venerable Vandan Sadhak, a Hindu monastic and Divinity School student, celebrates Diwali at dusk outside Swartz Hall. The festival of lights is celebrated by Hindus, Jains, Sikhs and some Buddhists.

Season of cheer

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