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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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Vertebrae from a Dinodontosaurus, an extinct forerunner to mammals, in the collection at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology.

Study challenges accepted notion of mammal spine evolution

Tiya Miles is a professor of history at Harvard University and the Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute.

Cease-fire terms during Pontiac’s War: British retreat and one Black boy

“Leap” by Marla Allisan, a clinical social worker for Harvard Law School. “I like saying I’m a part-time exhibiting artist. But I say it with great humility,” she added.

‘We’re so much more than our day job’

The book’s author is believed to have signed this copy, which was published in 1859.

Houghton acquires 1st edition of 1st African American novel

Kirkland House is reflected in the windows of Winthrop House.

The House that will be home

Daniel Roberts, an accessioning technician at the Broad Institute, conducts COVID-19 screening.

Looking back on Harvard’s COVID response one year later

When Tommy Amaker (pictured) arrived at Harvard in 2007, Law School Professor Charles J. Ogletree Jr. invited him to breakfast. From there, “The Breakfast Club” was born.

The new breakfast club

A doorway into Adams House.

Adams House renewal moves forward

Orvin Pierre ’22 shown receiving and award

Puzzling out a life’s work

Ruth Simmons

Ruth Simmons to deliver principal address at Harvard celebration for Class of 2021

A bird's-eye view of Harvard Yard.

Renaming committee seeks input from Harvard community

An artist’s interpretation of CAPTURE.

CAPTURE-ing movement in freely behaving animals

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