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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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Maryna Macdonald at the Bright-Landry Hockey Center.

Taking a shot on goal

For his first-year seminar “Back to the Future: How the Past Imagined the Cities of Tomorrow,” Bruno Carvalho will assign self-guided outdoor tours around the Carpenter Center, or a neighborhood walk for students who don’t live on campus.

Creating community in the virtual classroom

Lucy Tu recording a piano piece for her students.

A SPARK of an idea

A portrait of Bernard Bailyn.

Eminent historian Bernard Bailyn dies at 97

Harvard University Health Services holds COVID-19 testing at Harvard Stadium.

Testing for COVID, ensuring safety

Theater, Dance & Media's artistic producer, James Stanley, is experimenting with live-streaming software like OBS to cut down on virtual lag so all performers are in sync.

Reinventing courses that are harder to teach remotely

Emily Balskus is only the sixth Harvard scientist to win the Waterman Award since it began in 1975.

Emily Balskus wins $1M Waterman Award

Professor Scott Edwards enters Wyoming on his bike.

Going the distance for himself and a larger purpose

Fall foliage on Harvard's campus.

Gearing up for a consequential fall

The digitized title page from a first edition of "Uncle Tom’s Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1851).

This year, a single digitization focus at Houghton

Annette Gordon-Reed named University Professor

Harvard Professor Emmanuel Farhi, who died at 41, was considered one of the leading economists of his generation both in the U.S. and in France.

Leading Harvard economist Emmanuel Farhi dies at 41

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