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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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Atala hairstreak (Eumaeus atala) hanging delicately under a leaf of its cycad hostplant.

Unlocking the colors of insect vision

Protesters take a knee in front of New York City police officers during a solidarity rally for George Floyd, June 4, 2020.

Solving racial disparities in policing

Michael Cheng joined the Varsity Crew team on a whim. But before he could hit the river, he had to teach himself how to swim.

When it’s time to jump into the deep end

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AI can help reduce the risk of HIV in high-risk communities

The Star-Friedman Challenge welcomes Harvard faculty proposals from a broad range of fields and perspectives, with proposals focusing on pandemics especially encouraged this year. Applications are due March 1.

Wanted: Bold ideas

Understanding Chicxulub impactor is not just crucial to solving a mystery of Earth’s history but could prove pivotal if such an event were to threaten the planet again, contends Avi Loeb, Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard.

The cataclysm that killed the dinosaurs

“The ‘love is love’ phrase is overused, but love is very important, and it can be undervalued in our fast-paced, consumerist, capitalist society,” said Marya T. Mtshali, who teaches a course on interracial relationships.

Guess who’s coming to dinner

Lindsay Poulos ’23 shares “No Voice Too Small” with fourth-graders.

In mens sana, in corpore sano — even in fourth grade

A photo of a Harvard gate.

Harvard issues report on sexual harassment

A bird's-eye view of campus along Massachusetts Avenue.

What I miss most about campus since the pandemic…

James Monahan (front), associate director of Transit & Fleet Management, and shuttle driver Densis Pena at the Bus Shop in Allston. Harvard will replace four biodiesel buses with 100 percent electric buses this fall.

On the road to a fossil fuel-free future

Two individuals smiling.

Microbes are around and within us but there’s much we don’t know about them

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