Undergraduate Aerospace Collective celebrates satellite launch
CubeSat launch from Cape Canaveral caps project that began in 2018
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Winners of Taliesin Prize selected by Division of Arts & Humanities
The honor is given annually to College seniors who demonstrate ‘intellectual adventure’
Birding helped him soar in evolutionary science
Early interest in nature shaped Ashwin Sivakumar’s academic interests and work with Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
Harvard Radcliffe Institute awards 2026 Fay Prizes for outstanding theses
A big data study of New Zealand households on how where you live can determine how you live, solving a widespread gastrointestinal mystery, and how to analyze and incorporate the role of luck when it comes to bad decisions
Faculty decisively approve grading changes
Cap on A grades and shift from GPA to ‘average percentile rank’ set to go into effect fall 2027
AI system automates coding for scientific research
A new AI tool called Empirical Research Assistance can automatically write high-performance scientific software, even outperforming software written by experts.
‘Living with volcanoes requires accepting their power’
Hawaiʻi’s Alyssia Wiesenbauer arrived with an interest in studying volcanoes. She leaves with a deep knowledge of nature and museums.
Graduating at 79 — with her daughters cheering her on
When Rosie Rines graduated from Boston’s Roslindale High School in 1964, college didn’t seem like an option. But later this month, at 79 years old, she’ll don a cap and gown and receive her undergraduate degree from Harvard Extension School — with her daughters cheering her on.
Finding his rhythm between classroom and stage
At Harvard, drummer Raghav Mehrotra ’26 built knowledge about the music industry — and a sizable social media following.
Her senior project? Building panels made from waste wool
About 1 billion kilograms of wool gets wasted per year. Waste wool can come from farmers, from textile mills before the wool gets made into clothes and used by consumers. Environmental Science & Engineering concentrator Mia Montrose employed waste wool to make building cladding panels as an example of sustainable materials.
Cracking the code of ‘what the nose knows’
A team of researchers from two labs has created the most comprehensive map to date of how the primary olfactory system detects and organizes social and predator odors.