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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 sailing team members Katie Barkin and Paul Kuechler, both ’22, navigate a drill on the Charles.

Sailors’ delight

Sam Scherl ’22, a co-captain of the men’s squash team, grew frustrated when he was unable to offer a testimonial on the website of a former coach.

More about flexibility than big-money deals

A conversation with labor activist Dolores Huerta was hosted by the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School.

‘When you’re being an activist, you are making history’

Lewis Day (pictured) speaks from the new reading room desk.

Users give Houghton renovation a thumbs-up

“Memorial Hall is best seen from different angles and perspectives which highlight its facets and geometry,” said Director of Memorial Hall Raymond Traietti.

Above and beyond

Morgane Austern, who joined the Department of Statistics as an assistant professor in July, draws connections between creativity and mathematics.

Feeling passionate about math

Drew Faust, the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor, combined her love of history and language to create the undergraduate seminar “American Speeches: The Power of Words.”

Not just what was said, but who got to say it

Football player Kwaku Adubofour ’24 and DaLoria Boone ’22 of women's track and field receive their "Major H" varsity letter sweaters at the first distribution day since 2019.

‘Major H’ action resumes after COVID timeout

Tracy K. Smith joins the English Department as a professor of English and of African and African American Studies.

Naming the things you feel

Student in an economics class at Harvard.

Gift that promises to keep on giving

Harvard has several measures in place to reduce COVID-19 transmission rates.

How Harvard’s multilayer strategy helps keep COVID rates low

“I am more interested in curiosity than in perfection,” said Serpell. “What do you want to know? That’s more important than showing what you already know.”

A homecoming

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