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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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crowd of graduates in Harvard Yard in seats on Commencement

Six receive honorary degrees

A joyful noise

Students sitting in Harvard Yard for Class Day/Commencement with large Harvard banners

Harvard awards 9,277 degrees

Ready to serve

Time to stand up, defend American higher education, Faust says

City Councilor Liz Breadon (at podium) at the Harvard Ed Portal.

Providing community support

Choosing Harvard took LyLena Estabine down an uncertain path. The former student co-president has no regrets.

A change of mind, heart, and soul

Ivan Specht decided to employ his love of math during pandemic, which led to contact-tracing app, papers, future path

So how do you track spread of disease? By the numbers

As a high school student, Maya Counter ’24 led the effort to rename the residential Cambridge neighborhood where she grew up from Agassiz to Baldwin. She is pictured outside her elementary school, named after educator and civic leader Maria L. Baldwin, the first Black school principal in the Northeast.

Renaming of a neighborhood

Kazuma Mitchell performing at a festival in Shenzhen, China.

Pop star on one continent, college student on another

Justin (left) and Mitchell Callahan ’26 at the Harvard Sailing Center along the Charles River.

‘Unstoppable’ is all in the family

Dora Woodruff

When math is the dream

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