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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

Mahindra Humanities Center erects “poetry posts” to commemorate 9/11

The Mahindra Humanities Center erects eight “poetry posts” to prompt reflection about loss and recovery.

Harvard redistributes financial aid among lower- and higher-income students

The College redistributes aid among lower- and higher-income undergraduates, and introduces a new family financial-planning tool.

Defensive tackle Josue Ortiz with a blocking sled at Harvard Stadium

Harvard defensive tackle Josue Ortiz explains his art

Defensive tackle Josue Ortiz explains his art.

by Craig Lambert

From left: Katherine Xue and Isabel Ruane

2011-2012 Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows

Introducing the 2011-2012 Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows

Reading at Harvard, and in ancient Rome

Reading at the College, and in ancient Rome

by Madeleine Schwartz

Headlines from Harvard's history

Headlines from Harvard's history

From left to right: Lawrence S. Bacow, Susan L. Graham, and Joseph J. O'Donnell

The Harvard Corporation’s three new members

The Harvard Corporation’s three new members

Sally Donahue

Rower and financial-aid officer Sally Donahue

Meet the ardent rower—and College financial-aid officer.

by Craig Lambert

From a vantage point south of Western Avenue in Allston, looking northeast toward Harvard Square, the unfinished science complex dominates the foreground. Beyond it lie athletic fields that may yield to expansion by the School of Public Health, the Graduate School of Education, or other academic enterprises. A business “enterprise research campus” is envisioned south of Western Avenue, across from the high-rise graduate-student housing at One Western Avenue.

Harvard issues a new blueprint for its Allston property

The University has issued a new set of recommendations for its landholdings there.

What’s Latin for “375th anniversary”?

What’s in a (Latin) name?