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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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Charles River with Harvard campus in distance

Appeals court upholds Harvard's admissions policy

First-year Caitlin Berne stands in Harvard Yard.

The daily life of a first-year

As the director of life sciences education at Harvard, Rob Lue led a complete redesign of the introductory undergraduate curriculum.

Biologist Rob Lue, founding HarvardX faculty director, dies at 56

Ben Abercrombie '21 at a 2018 Harvard-Yale football game.

Going the extra mile — or 3.2 of them — for Abercrombie

The class views a clip from the movie "Friends From College," where a character's editor suggests that he write a young adult novel. "That launched our discussion about the cultural status of YA fiction, misapprehensions about it, and why this is now the Golden Age of YA literature," Leah Whittington said.

Reading as pleasure

Portrait of Finale Doshi-Velez, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

AI revolution in medicine

The Andromeda Galaxy (pictured) is one of the many perks to living in Brian Head, Utah. “We tried to avoid bigger cities, COVID hotspots ...,” said Jaxson Hill (left), with housemates Serena Wurmser, Ana Humphrey, Chris Dolce, and Loren Brown.

It’s as if Harvard had a Poconos campus

It started with a class paper on the Civil War. “... it got me thinking about what I wanted to do to serve,” said Philip Geanakoplos ’21, who enrolled in Officer Candidate School.

Growing the ranks

A crowd gathers along 16th Street in front of the White House on Saturday to celebrate the presidential race being called in favor of President-elect Joe Biden.

Dust is starting to settle after election, yet the way forward is unclear

Taking a break during a Sunday run last February, Bob Manson, M.P.A. ’04, (left) poses with Daniel Lieberman ’86 (right) and a fellow runner in Newton at Heartbreak Hill, along the Boston Marathon course.

Running, walking, cycling, and rolling together

Defensive back Garrett Sharp '24 does an end-of-practice drill with his teammates at sunup in Harvard Stadium.

Working it out

At the polls, there are signs pointing in the direction of where individuals should go to cast their ballots.

Hard lessons from a tough election

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