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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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Several students dressed in formal attire dance, sing, and shout in a well-lit room. One of the students is smiling directly at the camera.

Harvard’s Crimson Summer Academy marks a 20-year milestone

Three students, Mikhal Shvartsman (Lincoln-Sudbury High School), Emily Kuang (Lexington High School), and Aditi Rajvanshi (Lexington High School), all wearing eye protection and lab gowns, work in a laboratory to assess the results of their CRISPR/Ca9 gene-editing experiment. The two students on the left gaze at a bright screen on the table while the student on the right turns over a Petri dish in her hands.

High schoolers go all-in at Harvard’s Active Learning Labs

New SEAS Dean David Parkes smiles at the camera with the first floor of the Science and Engineering Complex (SEC) in the background.

Parkes named dean of John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Clockwise from top left: Aya Henry smiles at the camera against a green, forested background; Kayla Bey poses for the camera in front of a bookshelf; Ryan Doan-Nguyen smiles in front of a bookcase; Mira Alpers smiles in front of a storefront.

How do humanities prepare students for the real world? Here are four examples.

World Cup dreams come true for Harvard’s Hasbo

FAS dean Hopi Hoekstra, wearing a graduation cap and gown, smiles as she walks alongside an applauding group of cap- and gown-wearing graduates.

Hopi Hoekstra takes office

Lulu August ’26 (center) is hugged by her proud parents, Kakuri and Agnes, during first-year move-in last August in Harvard Yard. Photos by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer

Happy together

During one of her three stops for ice cream, Harvard President Claudine Gay (center) meets with the community in front of Massachusetts Hall in Harvard Yard.

Grabbing cool treat on hot day — and selfie with new president

olCollege and Summer School students, alumni, and parents, campus rally

About 100 rally to voice opposition to Supreme Court admissions case ruling

A message from President-elect Claudine Gay

exterior of supreme court. J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo

Harvard united in resolve in face of Supreme Court’s admissions ruling

Hopi Hoekstra

Hopi Hoekstra named next FAS dean

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