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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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Rahel Imru chose to concentrate in biomedical engineering, with a secondary in global health and health policy, explaining that she wants to combine technology and medicine to aid underrepresented communities.

Rahel Imru wants to bridge the science divide

2021 graduate Nina Uzoigwe throws her cap.

The cap (and gown) on a most unusual senior year

Jordan Bliss Perry '21, who will give the Latin Salutatory, sits on the Widener Library steps.

Viewing the pandemic as a turning point away from old inequities, injustice

The pandemic did not stop Joy Nesbitt '21, who virtually directed her classmates in a Zoom production of “God of Carnage.”

Music and theater with a message

Tina Lu ’21 examined symptom internet searches early in the pandemic and scored how well they later matched clinical symptoms of COVID-19.

Tracking progression of disease through internet searches for symptoms

A runner jogs in a field.

Daily walks? Baking? Mindfulness? Which pandemic changes are keepers?

Muhua Yang ’21 will enter the University of Iowa’s master of fine arts program in literary translation this fall.

A literary translator, far from home, feels a tie with an exiled Ovid

Following graduation, Christopher Altizer ’21 will be a Harvard Teacher Fellow in Chelsea, Massachusetts, while pursuing a master’s in education.

Communities spirit

Harvard Yard.

Some pomp for the circumstance

A trip to China rerouted Cliff Wang’s interest from medicine to climate change and sustainability.

Pinning down a new future

Francesco Rolando’s interest in health policy deepened last spring, when he conducted research for his thesis while volunteering at a Turin medical clinic.

Putting science to work

Kang-Kuen Ni and her team use ultra-cold chemistry to test quantum theory against actual experimental data.

Mapping the quantum frontier, one layer at a time

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