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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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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern spoke at the first Harvard Yard Commencement since 2019.

Ardern’s forceful reminder: Democracies can die

Widener Library in Harvard Yard.

Seven alumni elected to the Board of Overseers

Harvard will welcome its honorands to Tercentenary Theatre, a first since 2019.

Harvard to award seven honorary degrees

Class Day speaker Michell Wu urged seniors to “harvest your imaginations focus on the good we can do when we work together. And let’s let go of our instincts to protect the status quo.”

Pursuit of joy starts with truth, Wu tells graduates

ROTC cadets being sworn in during Commencement week.

Newly minted military officers warned of global threats to democracy

Landscape photo of Cambridge with a rainbow in the background.

Finding hurdles, stepping up

The first in-person Baccalaureate in two years brought seniors into Tercentenary Theatre instead the traditional stop at Memorial Church.

Bacow urges seniors to embrace the unexpected

“High academic achievement and accolades from such an excellent college as this are not a prize; they are a calling to do one’s utmost to serve the common good,” said Theda Skocpol at the Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises in the Sanders Theatre.

Skocpol tells PBK students: World of trouble awaits you. Fight to fix it.

Harvard student Phiroze Parasnis traveled with his younger brother and parents in India just weeks before COVID-19 shut the country down.

United by lockdown, divided by ‘Seinfeld’

Image of microphone at Commencement.

Break down walls. Vanquish villains. Stand up and speak out. Facts and truth matter.

Three student orators will deliver speeches at the Class of 2022’s Commencement ceremony on Thursday. A fourth student orator will deliver the Latin Salutatory on Sunday to honor the Classes of 2020 and 2021.

Taking lessons from epic, everyday

“Having been on the Corporation for 12 years and having been the senior fellow for eight, I can tell you I’ll miss it. It’s challenging; it’s exciting; and it’s fun,” said William Lee.

Bill Lee on two decades of Harvard progress

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