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URAF Student Accomplishments Highlighted in 'Remarkable Year of Achievement'
During the 2025–2026 academic year, Harvard College students and recent alumni received national, international, and institutional honors recognizing outstanding scholarship across disciplines ranging from engineering and public policy to the humanities...
Ross Noble '26 Awarded Saint Andrew’s Society Scholarship
In 1956, Saint Andrew’s Society expanded its mission to include a merit-based scholarship program. Since its inception, the Scholarship Program has awarded more than 200 graduate-level academic scholarships to promote exchange between American and...
Lab Hosts of Harvard College Summer Scholars and Research Village Students Among Star-Friedman Awardees
Officially the Star-Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research, the program was established in 2013 by a gift from James A. Star ’83 and expanded five years later with support from Josh Friedman ’76, M.B.A. ’80, J.D. ’82, and Beth Friedman. It...
Cancer turned her into a scientist
First, cancer left Mary Cipperman ’26 exhausted. Then it made her tireless. Consider her workload her final semester: seven classes, an honors degree in physics plus a concurrent master’s in applied physics, a prize-winning 150-page thesis that revealed...
Ari Kohn, HCRP Recipient, Shares Thesis Research
Throughout her Harvard College experience, Social Studies and Philosophy concentrator Ari Kohn ‘26 has explored how the mission of Harvard College, to educate citizen and citizen-leaders through a liberal arts education, is enacted and preserved. The...
Francisco Cortes, HCRP recipient, called to serve
At Harvard, Francisco Cortes '26 and Owen Guest '26 also shared interest in history and commitment to their athletic regimen. In summer 2025, both spent months pursuing research in Munich under the mentorship of Frank Johnson. Guest’s senior thesis...
The Lafayette Fellowship's Inaugural Fellowship Includes Two College Grads
The Lafayette Fellowship welcomes Eva Frazier and Henry Lear to its very first cohort of scholars. Established in September 2025 under the high patronage of the President of the French Republic to mark the 250th anniversary of French-American friendship...
Harvard Amgen Scholar Named 2026 Samvid Scholar
Swara Patel, a 2022 Harvard Amgen Scholar, has been named a 2026 Samvid Scholar. Congratulations, Swara!
URAF Researcher, Ashwin Sivakumar, wins Marshall Scholarship
Ashwin Sivakumar ’26 wanted to understand how birds evolved such a diversity of wing shapes. Working with the Edwards Lab, led by Alexander Agassiz Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Scott V. Edwards, Sivakumar used CT technology to scan a...
Harvard College students, alumni awarded 2026 Hertz Fellowships
Two Harvard College students and two recent alumni are among the 19 recipients nationwide selected for the 2026 Hertz Fellowship, one of the country’s most competitive doctoral fellowships in science, engineering, and mathematics. Awarded annually by the...
Ten from Harvard College named 2026 Knight-Hennessy Scholars
Two Harvard College students and eight recent alumni are among the recipients selected as 2026 Knight-Hennessy Scholars, Stanford University’s multidisciplinary graduate fellowship program that supports emerging leaders pursuing graduate education across...
Three Harvard College students awarded Goldwater Scholarships
Shriya Bhat ’27, Wyatt Jensen ’27, and Kasie Leung ’27 have been awarded the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education. Learn more about the scholarship and Harvard's awardees on College News.
Student Stories
Hannah Martinez '23
"Funding, whether in term-time or the summer before senior year, is crucial towards making the senior thesis possible. Harvard’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships is dedicated to connecting Harvard students to funding sources across the...
Olga Kiyan '22
"I thought that research was not something I would be engaged with during college. However, that very quickly changed, once I explored all that campus had to offer. Since my sophomore year, I have been engaged in research on campus in fields within the...
Laura '19
"About a year ago I was informed that I had been selected as a fellow for the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship. This is a national fellowship that is meant to put students from underrepresented backgrounds on the path to academia.One of the perks that...
