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Harvard Commencement comes together in photo gallery- Harvard Gazette

4 days ago | news.harvard.edu | Veasey Conway

2 min read More than 9,000 graduates from the Class of 2025, representing all of Harvard University’s Schools, streamed into Harvard Yard on May 29 for Harvard’s 374th Commencement Exercises. The graduates, most wearing black gowns and bits of crimson, processed into Tercentenary Theatre. Families, friends, and well-wishers filled the steps of Widener Library, spreading out across the Yard.
Social media fueled divisions. Teaming up may help heal. — Harvard Gazette

5 days ago | news.harvard.edu | Christy DeSmith

6 min read Algorithm-driven digital feeds have deepened the split between red and blue America. But a new online tool may help bring the country back together. The virtual quiz game Tango, developed at Harvard, pairs Democrats and Republicans on common teams, where bipartisanship quickly emerges as a competitive advantage. “It’s really the opposite of the nasty, divisive posting you find on social media,” offered Tango co-creator Joshua D.
Six honorary degrees to be awarded at 374th Commencement — Harvard Gazette

1 week ago | news.harvard.edu | Lucia Huntington

long read A collection of features and profiles covering Harvard University’s 374th Commencement. The University will confer the honorary degrees during Thursday’s Commencement ceremony in Tercentenary Theatre. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is known world-wide over as one of the greatest basketball players to ever play the game as well as a committed social activist and award-winning writer.
Hey, you, hold onto your humanity. You’ll thank me later. — Harvard Gazette

1 week ago | news.harvard.edu | Alexandra Petri

5 min read A collection of features and profiles covering Harvard University’s 374th Commencement. Alexandra Petri ’10, formerly a Washington Post columnist, is currently a staff writer for The Atlantic. She won the 2025 Thurber Prize for American Humor for her book “Alexandra Petri’s U.S. History: Important American Documents I Made Up.” OK, Harvard graduates. Listen.
Deep in Amazon, politicians resist gold miners — and inspire thesis — Harvard Gazette

1 week ago | news.harvard.edu | Christy DeSmith

6 min read A collection of features and profiles covering Harvard University’s 374th Commencement. Reaching the tiny settlement, located deep within the Amazon rainforest, required several hours of travel by river boat.
12 alumni elected to Harvard leadership boards — Harvard Gazette

1 week ago | news.harvard.edu | Terry Murphy

Six alumni have been newly elected as members of Harvard University’s Board of Overseers, with another six joining the board of directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). The new Overseers will assume their roles on May 30, while the HAA directors will begin their terms on July 1. Five of the new Overseers were elected for six-year terms. The sixth, Anjali Sud, will serve the remaining two years of the unexpired term of Mark Carney. Mark A.
Marine vet’s future was a puzzle. Then he found archaeology. — Harvard Gazette

2 weeks ago | news.harvard.edu | Christy DeSmith

6 min read A collection of features and profiles covering Harvard University’s 374th Commencement. The professor’s office was wallpapered with declassified U.S. intelligence photos. “I walked in and the first thing I saw were these floor-to-ceiling printouts of U2 and CORONA aerial imagery,” recalled Shane Rice ’25.
‘We have a way of steering a fly like you would a car’ — Harvard Gazette

2 weeks ago | news.harvard.edu | Clea Simon

4 min read Fruit flies, one of the most studied organisms in science, are efficient little creatures, able to navigate their environment with agility. They were also one of the first animals to be manipulated by geneticists. A new study, published last month by PNAS, exploited these qualities by turning fruit flies into what the co-authors call “living micro-robots,” whose movements can be controlled by sensory clues.
Harvard’s practice of preservation plays key role in future research — Harvard Gazette

2 weeks ago | news.harvard.edu | Veasey Conway

7 min read Across the University and the world, Harvard students, staff, and researchers dedicate themselves to documenting, organizing, and restoring items big and small. The tools of the trade could be trowels, tweezers, erasers, microscopes, or 3D scanners, but their goal is the same: to preserve works of literature, art, science, and civilization, and keep them accessible for future generations of researchers, students, and the wider public.
Excerpt from ‘The Ideological Brain’ by Leor Zmigrod — Harvard Gazette

2 weeks ago | news.harvard.edu | Terry Murphy

Excerpted from “The Ideological Brain: The Radical Science of Flexible Thinking” by Leor Zmigrod, Visiting Research Fellow ’19From fascism and communism to eco-activism and spiritual evangelism, ideological groups offer absolute and utopian answers to societal troubles, strict rules for behavior, and an ingroup mentality through dedicated practices and symbols. These features exist across the spectrum of ideological persuasions.