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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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Exterior view of the front of the Science Center, to be renamed Zimmer Hall.

Science Center to be named Zimmer Hall

Harvard University announced that the Science Center on Oxford Street will be renamed Zimmer Hall, in recognition of a 2018 gift from the Zimmer Family Foundation.

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Joyce Chaplin, James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History, speaking with students outside the Center for Astrophysics.

Biodiversity is improving across campus, with help from a history course

Joyce Chaplin’s “Rewilding Harvard” is reimagining the Harvard landscape.

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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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3 students rehearse ballet in a studio

Passing the barre

Elizabeth Propst '22 is working on a project "Poetry in America" with Professor Elisa New for her undergraduate summer research fellowship.

Research and everyday life

Mark Gearan and Mary Herlihy-Gearan, Interim Winthrop Faculty Deans

Interim faculty deans named for Winthrop House

Christiana Akins from the Office for Sustainability worked with students to create rain gardens at Mather and Leverett Houses. The gardens help to alleviate some of the water puddling after rainstorms

Singing in the rain

Kathleen Coleman (left) and Eleanor Finnegan discuss the new General Education course on the experience of loss.

Intensely personal, yet universal

Dean of Undergraduate Education Amanda Claybaugh portrait

Changes coming to Gen Ed

A rendering of the new ARC space

College announces new Academic Resource Center

Janae Strickland '19 portrait

What’s next for graduates?

a group of graduates at commencement

Shining Commencement moments, captured

Treasure our freedoms, German Chancellor Angela Merkel advised Harvard’s 368th graduating class on Thursday. “Our individual liberties are not givens. Democracy is not something we can take for granted,” she told the crowd during Afternoon Program in Tercentenary Theatre. “Neither is peace, and neither is prosperity.”

Merkel advises graduates: Break the walls that hem you in

Gabby Thomas set a new NCAA 200-meter dash best at the national meet last March.

Sprinting to the finish

view from above of graduates sitting in Harvard Yard during commencement

Gathering of the Crimson clan

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