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Your Harvard 2026 Commencement Week Guide

College reunions and Alumni Day will take place the following week

Harvard moves to a tenure track for appointing professors

Revised promotion policies transform younger faculty members' lives—and promise sweeping changes in the professoriate as a whole.

Harvard Law librarian is organist for Boston Red Sox

Meet the Law School librarian who plays for the Red Sox.

Harvard's EVP revises budget, capital-planning projects

Executive vice president Katie Lapp is swiftly altering the ways Harvard budgets, builds, computes, and more.

Headlines from Harvard history

Headlines from Harvard history

Faculty retirements, a HUCTW contract, and hospital aid to Harvard Med School

Waiting to hear about faculty retirements; a new HUCTW contract; and a cash infusion for the Medical School from its affiliated hospitals

Roundup of recent Harvard news

Canaday's solar roof, a rare giant flower, oil-spill commissioner, and more

Madeleine Schwartz, Sarah Zhang named Harvard Magazine Ledecky Fellows

Two sterling student writers join the magazine as Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows.

Profile of fitness guru Dawn Murdock Stenis

Dawn Murdock Stenis directs Harvard’s extensive fitness programs.

by Craig Lambert

Halfway through college, decisions close in

The Undergraduate, halfway through the College, finds time speeding up, in academics and in life.

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

2010 Commencement humor

The lighter side of Harvard's Commencement