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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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There was no Korean Disney princess so Julia Riew created her own for her senior thesis. Since releasing her first video about it, she has received notes and support from all over the world, extensive media coverage, and an agent.

Turning right at musical theater

Avi Schiffmann works on the website UkraineTakeShelter, created with fellow Harvard student Marco Burstein. The website helps Ukrainian refugees connect with host families.

Finding ways to help Ukraine

“The same way that it’s ‘normal’ to take a class on other traditions of knowledge, it should be the same to take a class on Indigenous studies or Quechua or Navajo,” says Américo Mendoza-Mori, lecturer in Latinx Studies.

Reclaiming Indigenous languages, cultures

Merrick Garland is the 86th attorney general of the United States.

Merrick Garland to speak at Commencement for Classes of 2020 and 2021

Robin Batteau performed last month for a packed house at Club Passim.

The 74-year-old College graduate

Benjy Wenzelberg (left) directs one of the actors on stage.

Dreams and classics come alive in ‘Nighttown’

Anas El Turabi, a scholar in residence at Mather, holds his cavalier King Charles spaniel Cori, the House's informal mascot, greeter, and morale booster.

Feeling at home at Mather House

students in Harvard Yard on Housing day

Housing Day is back in the house

Widener Library in Harvard Yard.

Taking best of innovations, lessons of pandemic education

Tracy K. Smith ’94 is a Harvard professor of English and of African and African American Studies and the Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute.

Former poet laureate, Pulitzer winner featured speaker for Harvard Alumni Day

Director Mira Nair works on the set of "The Perez Family."

Mira Nair comes full circle with donation of archive

Researchers aim to improve the lives of people with neuro-motor impairments and to help individuals achieve ambitious fitness goals.

Harvard and BU awarded $3M for robotics, wearable technology development

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