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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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Performers at SHAM’s first show are Nikita Nair ’24 (clockwise from top left), Ben Meron ’23, Mark E. Glickman, Taylor Kruse ’23, and Sam Dvorak ’23.

With a wave of the wand

Donning a different piece of Pfoho garb from his vast collection, Mario Leon posts to Instagram to stay connected with the students.

Where’s Super Mario?

Artist of the Year Taraji P. Henson (clockwise from top left) with Arielle Corbin-Contreras, Robin M. Johnson, and Joy Nesbitt.

Foundation names Taraji P. Henson Artist of the Year

Neil Khurana ’22 (pictured) and first-year Zev Minsky-Primus were paired up to navigate the Yard without the use of modern instruments. Their first challenge was determining which direction was west.

Navigating the Yard

Harvard Gates

How chronic stress leads to hair loss

A lion guards the courtyard of Adolphus Busch Hall. The statue is a replica of Braunschweiger Löwe, or Brunswick lion, a cast of the 12th-century bronze from Germany.

Where the wild things are

“In the early years of NAGPRA, many people thought that repatriation would not be particularly difficult. Just give it back. But it’s considerably more complicated,” says Philip Deloria, past chair of the Repatriation Committee at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian.

A reckoning on Native American remains and cultural objects

Godzilla battles King Kong in “Godzilla vs. Kong.”

Round 2: ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’

Rebecca Henderson (clockwise from upper left), Peter Huybers, Daniel Schrag, Jennifer Leaning, and Jim Stock discuss the way forward to fight climate change.

Finding a way forward on climate change

Following the death of George Floyd, protesters gathered in front of the State House in Boston.

Origins of a storm and the roots of a reckoning

Andres Mendoza '23 has written a paper for his Expository Writing Class about how Harvard dealt with the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic.

Keeping students on campus for their health and safety?

Photo illustration of 1918 pandemic and social distancing by Judy Blomquist

The main public health tool during 1918 pandemic? Social distancing

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