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Finding his rhythm between classroom and stage
Harvard College senior Raghav Mehrotra, a joint economics and music concentrator, with his drum kit at Holden Chapel.

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.

On the path to research, teach, and curate
Harvard College student Lauren Bartel is pictured before a display of taxidermy bird mounts at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.

On the path to research, teach, and curate

Working with the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture was formative for integrative biology concentrator Lauren Bartel

Cancer turned her into a scientist
Harvard College student Mary Cipperman gazes out a window on campus

Cancer turned her into a scientist

Diagnosis transformed Mary Cipperman ’26 into a hyperproductive student researcher with diverse interests in physics, medicine, and AI

Scenes of student ingenuity at Harvard Arts Festival
Players with the Harvard University Band hauled an enormous drum to the annual pick-up performance of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, a festival tradition.

Scenes of student ingenuity at Harvard Arts Festival

The four-day celebration, organized by the Office for the Arts at Harvard, features music, dance, theater performances, visual art exhibits, and hands-on art activities at venues across campus.

Presidential dreams can wait. For now, she can’t stop painting. (external link)
Daniela Solis

Presidential dreams can wait. For now, she can’t stop painting. 

Inspired by the trailblazing female politicians of her native Costa Rica, which elected its second woman president earlier this year, Daniela Solis ’26 arrived at Harvard with a dream to run for office. Then an arts class in her junior year opened her eyes to an entirely new calling she never would have predicted.

From rugby pitch to lab bench (external link)
Tiahna Padilla in the lab

From rugby pitch to lab bench 

Tiahna Padilla ’26 has never been afraid of a challenge. While working on her senior thesis, the two worlds she inhabited at Harvard converged through the development of a mobile artificial limb that gives unique insight into the capabilities of athletes’ muscles.

Childhood passion becomes bioengineering success (external link)
Harvard SEAS student Jiani Johnson

Childhood passion becomes bioengineering success 

Find Jiani Johnson’s fifth-grade yearbook, and you’ll find a surprising response to the question of what she wanted to be when she grows up: a bioengineer. She liked tinkering and building things, and she always wanted to help people, making bioengineering the ideal interdisciplinary collaboration.

Starving the cancer, sparing the brain (external link)
Profile of Alan wong in lab gear looking at a computer

Starving the cancer, sparing the brain 

In the Kanarek Laboratory at Boston Children’s Hospital, Alan Wong, who will receive his PhD in biological and biomedical sciences this May from the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, focuses on developing new approaches to treat pediatric leukemia while reducing harm to the brain.