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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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A photo of a Harvard gate.

Admissions Update for the 2021-2022 Application Cycle

Noah Harris ’22 is the president of Harvard College’s Undergraduate Council.

Working for change that’s both aspirational and real

Assistant Professor Sarah Dimick’s lecture course, “Voices of Environmental Justice,” considers the relationship between systems of human injustice and environmental issues.

New faculty: Sarah Dimick

Henry Louis Gates Jr. will be honored with the Don M. Randel Award for Humanistic Studies in the fall. Gates is the seventh person to receive the award since it was established in 1975.

Gates recognized for his scholarship in the humanities

Returning seniors Swathi Srinivasan, Sydney McDonald, and Matt Thomas.

So how to make the best of ‘senior spring’ in COVID times?

The towers of Eliot and Lowell Houses are pictured along the Charles River after a 2019 winter storm.

Winter wisdom

Drew Kelner ’22 moved into Lowell House with help from his dad, Mike Kelner, of Pembroke, Mass. Jan. 20 was the first day of move-in day for spring 2021 at Harvard University.

Move-in day, without those hugs

Harvard yard gate in the snow

Harvard Opportunes win national competition

Professor Manja Klemenčič speaks to the camera.

Advice to students: Enact your agency, build resilience

Sapria himalayana is found in Southeast Asia and its mottled red and white flower is about the size of a dinner plate.

‘The most charismatic and strange of all flowering plants’

Students in Andrea Wright's engaged scholarship course, "Care in Critical Times."

Stepping up to the front line

Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th president of the United States by Chief Justice John Roberts (far right).

Recognizing pain but seizing hope

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