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Your Harvard 2026 Commencement Week Guide

College reunions and Alumni Day will take place the following week

Jacqueline Bhabha

Jacqueline Bhabha Photograph by Stu Rosner Even as a newborn in Bombay in 1951, Jacqueline Bhabha was involved in refugee issues: her...

Yesterday's News

1925 The Associated Harvard Clubs’ Committee on Service to the University suggests that descendants of Harvard graduates be given...

Auto PILOT

Harvard’s payments in lieu of taxes (PILOT) to the City of Cambridge have been renegotiated to include an escalator that will increase the...

Building Boom

The University is on a building boom of sorts. The campus was transformed in the post-World War II era, extending itself outward and upward in...

A Planner for GSD

Had life gone according to his plan, Alan A. Altshuler would have spent one of the snowiest Cambridge winters on record in Singapore. Instead...

Humanist at Harvard

Finding Humanism listed among the 26 religions represented on the Board of Ministry at Harvard may seem curious, but Humanist chaplain Thomas...

University People

Garrett M. Graff Courtesy of Garrett M. Graff Susan Dackerman Justin Ide / Harvard News Office Crimson blogsphere. Two Harvard...

Tenure Task Forces

Addressing ambitious agendas and a May 1 deadline, the University’s twin task forces on women faculty and on women in science and...

Breiva news shorts

Commencement VoicesThe Harvard Alumni Association’s guest speaker on Commencement afternoon, June 9, will be actor John A. Lithgow...

Harvard's Googled Library

In agreements announced December 14, the world's largest search engine, Google, undertook to build an on-line reading room to house digital...