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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.
Fifty-two Students and Alumni Awarded NSF GRFP Grant
52 Harvard College students and alumni were awarded a 2026 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) grant. Learn more about the alumni and their fields!
Maab Karrar '27 Wins Middlebury's Projects for Peace Award
Mab Karrar '27 joins the 2026 cohort of Projects for Peace. This group is made of 142 projects nominated by 98 institutions. Karrar will join a cohort working on "innovative, community-centered, and scalable responses to the world’s most pressing issues"...
Four Harvard College Alumni Named 2026 PD Soros Fellows
Four Harvard College alumni have been named 2026 fellows of the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, a highly competitive program that supports immigrants and children of immigrants pursuing graduate education in the United States. Selected...
Four named Gates Cambridge Scholars
Four Harvard students are among the 26 selected to be part of the 2026 class of Gates Cambridge Scholars at the University of Cambridge. Sixteen of the Scholars-elect will pursue Ph.D.s and 10 will undertake one-year master’s degrees. They will study and...
Harvard University Student Awarded Douglass-O’Connell Global Internship
Harvard University sophomore Michelle Chung has been selected for the 2026 Frederick Douglass–Daniel O’Connell Global Internship through CIEE. Chung will join a distinguished cohort of 14 students for the eight-week program in Dublin, Ireland. Co...
Harvard Named Fulbright Top Producing Institution
We are proud to share that a record 41 Harvard students won the Fulbright last year, marking Harvard as once again a Fulbright Top Producing Institution. The Fulbright U.S. Student Program is the largest U.S. exchange program offering opportunities for...
Congratulations to Harvard's 2026-2027 Churchill Scholar
We are proud to announce that Katherine Tung '26 has been awarded the Churchill Scholarship. One of 18 winners, Katherine was part of the Scholarship's largest nomination pool yet. The Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States is pleased to...
Six from Harvard Named Schwarzman Scholars
Schwarzman Scholars, one of the world’s most prestigious graduate fellowship programs, today announced its eleventh cohort of admitted students. The 150 Scholars, representing 40 countries and 83 universities from around the world, will attend a one-year...
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...
