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Three joyful graduates in caps and gowns celebrate together outdoors.

Your Harvard 2026 Commencement Week Guide

College reunions and Alumni Day will take place the following week

Photograph of Roxanne Guenette

Harvard Portrait: Roxanne Guenette

Seeking answers to science’s biggest questions

by Jonathan Shaw

Photograph of Nancy Coleman, dean of continuing education

Online education at Harvard—a status report

Pandemic-driven virtual learning booms—and perhaps promises improved residential education, too.

by John S. Rosenberg

Higher-profile Board of Overseers Election

Prospective candidates and their diverse views of Harvard’s future and the Board’s role

by John S. Rosenberg

Mark Steele illustration of Lowell House’s bells being rung for the first time by a giant hand stretching from a cloud to swing the detached belfry.

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Photograph of Patrick Chung

The Xfund’s liberal-arts entrepreneurs

The Xfund helps young entrepreneurs launch companies and careers.

by Jonathan Shaw

Harvard alumni elected to the 117th Congress

Four new House members boost the roster of alumni in Congress to 54.

A drawing showing a large crossbar being hauled into place between two tall smokestacks to make a giant "H" for "Harvard"

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Headlines from Harvard’s history

A photograph of art historian Cassandra Albinson next to a photograph of a portrait of the Marquise de Pompadour applying pink rouge to her cheeks

Harvard Portrait: Cassandra Albinson

A curator takes a fresh look at portraits of aristocratic European women.

by Jonathan Shaw

A graph shows that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has become gradually more diverse, but that the total size of the faculty has grown little for more than a decade.

Harvard FAS dean’s annual report

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ annual report on the professoriate—and the challenges of making it more diverse

by John S. Rosenberg

A Zoom screen shot of multiple Harvard student members of the College radio station, WHRB

Harvard extracurriculars cope despite COVID-19

Extracurriculars cope despite COVID-19.

by Meena Venkataramanan