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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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“Harvard will continue to defend vigorously its admissions practices,” President Larry Bacow responded.

Supreme Court to hear Harvard admissions challenge

Students discuss how they turned their class project for ES96: Engineering Problem Solving and Design Project, into two papers that were recently published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene.

Video: From Problem-Solving to Publication

Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand in “The Tragedy of Macbeth.”

Film full of sound and fury in dark pandemic season

Melissa Shang is a first-year student, disability activist, and children's book author. She brought her activism to campus to promote greater accessibility measures.

Raising awareness about disability amid pandemic

Students from ES96 present their end-of-semester project to BASF. Eight juniors worked on a prototype to monitor and remove micro- and nanoplastic particles from drinking water.

Plastic-Free Fresh Water

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Harvard advisers on Omicron surge, shifting protocols

Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner will be celebrated as Hasty Pudding's Man and Woman of the Year.

The stars align for the Pudding Pot

Newly appointed Vice Provost for Research John Shaw will lead efforts to streamline the University’s research-related policies and practices.

John H. Shaw named vice provost for research

Widener Library in Harvard Yard following the first snow of the year.

Alumni committee nominates candidates for Overseers, HAA elected directors

Astronomy Lab manager Allyson Bieryla wheels a portable telescope case on the ramp at the Science Center.

Making the cosmos accessible

E.O. Wilson in 1994. Wilson received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1955, joining its faculty in 1956. Wilson remained at the University the rest of his career.

A trailblazing biologist — and beloved mentor and friend

Benjamin Perry Wenzelberg ’21 wrote the music and libretto for the opera “NIGHTTOWN,” recording a demo of it as part of his thesis submission.

Overture of an opera life

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