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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

Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences regulates financial conflicts of interest

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences deploys new rules and procedures surrounding financial conflicts of interest.

Jonathan L. Walton

Harvard’s new Memorial Church minister, Jonathan Walton, and other newsmakers

Memorial Church's new minister, Pulitzer Prize winners, and other Harvardians in the news

Radcliffe Rejuvenated: Days before Commencement, the Radcliffe Institute moved its administrative offices back into the newly renovated Fay House (shown here, the Atkinson Room, on the third floor). With the renovation of its main buildings now complete, the institute planned to redo its campus landscaping this summer.

Neimans, Brazilian students, engineering concentrations, and other news

Shading the Yard, new digital Niemans, Brazil's Harvard commitment, and more

Perfection isn't perfect: an undergraduate perspective on its human cost

The Undergraduate considers the human cost of perfection.

by Isabel Ruane

Harvard spring sports wrap-up

Spring sports wrap-up

At home, far from home: New Zealander brothers James (left) and Sam O’Connor in Newell Boathouse

Sam and James O'Connor, stalwarts of the Harvard heavyweight crew

The brothers O'Connor, from New Zealand, row on the Harvard varsity heavyweight crew.

by Craig Lambert

Harvard faculty-administration tensions over personal financial planning

In a fiscally constrained era, faculty-administration tensions arise.

Russell Phillips

Meet Russell Phillips, director of the new HMS Center for Primary Care

Meet the director of Harvard Medical School's new Center for Primary Care.

Harvard MIT edX online learning venture

Harvard partners with MIT to form edX, an ambitious online learning venture.

<b>The Blue Classes:</b> The Class of 2012 has revived the "class color" tradition (see "<a href="http://harvardmagazine.com/2009/11/harvard-class-colors-and-trademark-clothing">Curious Colors</a>"); theirs is blue. On Class Day, members of the class of 1955 displayed their class banner (also blue) to honor the graduating seniors and guest speaker Barney Frank, whose College class (1961) is blue, too.

Harvard 2012 Commencement humor human interest

Commencement moments and people—pleasing, surprising, and funny