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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

Swara Patel, a 2022 Harvard Amgen Scholar, has been named a 2026 Samvid Scholar. Congratulations, Swara!

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...

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...