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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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Professor Katherine Merseth teaching in front of a class

A week of firsts, and the first of a last

Harvard Science and Engineering Complex in Allston

Harvard Grid to help researchers make leap from lab to startup

Anna Deavere Smith

From Rodney King to George Floyd

“In this job you’re always looking forward; you’re always trying to find new ways to make a difference. The satisfaction comes from helping the institution continue to move forward,” said President Larry Bacow.

Planning for a very big year

In his annual address at Morning Prayers, President Larry Bacow calls for the Harvard community to argue rigorously with others in defense of Veritas.

At Morning Prayers, Bacow urges listeners to meet the moment

During pre-orientation, the First-Year International Program welcomed first-years from around the world.

An alphabet soup of programs makes a warm welcome for first-years

“Our job is to prepare you for the world you will inhabit when you leave this yard,” President Larry Bacow told first-year students filling Tercentenary Theatre.

Bacow counsels first-years to be ‘slow to judge, quick to understand’

Andrew Winnicki, a rising senior studying physics and math, works with lasers in the Doyle Lab.

Look at life in lab

Move-in teams, family, and friends help first-year students make their way into a bustling Harvard Yard.

With a little help from their friends

Katherine O'Dair will step into her new role on Oct. 1.

Dean of Students Katherine O’Dair named University Marshal

A birds eye view of the Massachusetts Statehouse in Boston.

Protecting Access to Reproductive Health Care Services in the Commonwealth

Washington University Professor Patty Heyda (from lower left) and Saul Glist joined interns Claire Pryor, Muskaan Arshad, Christian Gines, A.J. Veneziano, and Malik Sediqzad in St. Louis for the Commonwealth Project.

Powerful summers in St. Louis

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