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Your Harvard 2026 Commencement Week Guide

College reunions and Alumni Day will take place the following week

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Harvard Releases Database of 1,613 People Enslaved by University Affiliates

Research continues to track down living descendants.

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Martin Nowak Placed on Leave a Second Time

Further links to Jeffrey Epstein surface in newly released files.

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Alumni Profiles

This Harvard-Trained Lawyer Fights for the Rights of Chickens

Alene Anello wants to apply animal cruelty laws to birds raised for meat.

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Harvard Celebrates America’s 250th

How the American Revolution Freed a Future Abolitionist

Darby Vassall, an enslaved child freed after the Battle of Bunker Hill, dedicated his life to fighting for liberty.

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University News

Scoundrels, Then and Now

On con men, Mark Twain, and the powers of the Harvard name