Harvard University President
Federal Lawsuits
Upholding Our Values, Defending Our University
“The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government.”
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Interfaith Engagement
President’s Building Bridges Fund
Harvard Dialogues
Presidential Task Force on Combating Antisemitism and Anti-Israeli Bias
Presidential Task Force on Combating Anti-Muslim, Anti-Arab, and Anti-Palestinian Bias
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Education Day 2025
Veasey Conway/Harvard Staff Photographer
President Garber speaks with women’s basketball players Ava Krumwiede (left) and Sam Wills, after the Crimson beat the Stony Brook Seawolves, 67-33, at Lavietes Pavilion. The game coincided with Education Day 2025, when area schoolchildren attended the game.
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A Harvard ovation
Photo by Niles Singer
President Garber responds to a standing ovation at the Commencement ceremony on May 28. 2025.
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Celebrating Alumni
Photo by Niles Singer
President Garber greets the eldest female alumni, Linda Cabot Black ’51, at Harvard Alumni Day 2025.
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2025 ROTC Commissioning Ceremony
Photo by Veasey Conway
Harvard president Alan Garber shakes hands with Eytan Goldstein during Harvard’s ROTC commissioning ceremony for members of the Class of 2025, in Sanders Theatre, in Memorial Hall. Twenty-two ROTC members, from the Air Force, Navy, and Army, were recognized.
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Cheers for President Garber
Photo by Stephanie Mitchell
President Alan Garber urges the crowd to be seated after they gave him a standing ovation at the Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises on May 27 in Sanders Theatre.
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Celebrating the Class of 2025
Photo by Stephanie Mitchell
President Garber greets students as he processes into the ceremony of Harvard's 374th Commencement Exercises in Tercentenary Theatre.
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Move-in day
President Garber helped first-year students move into the Yard for the start of the semester.
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Celebrating 50 years of Office for the Arts
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President Alan Garber speaking during a celebration of 50 years of the Office for the Arts. The event featured live music, dance, storytelling, poetry and visual arts by students and alumni helped shape Harvard’s arts landscape.
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Harvard Arts Medal
Photo by Grace DuVal
Operatic bass-baritone Davóne Tines (left) ’09 sits onstage during the ceremony where he received the 2025 Harvard Arts Medal, which was presented to him by President Garber.
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U.K. visit
President Garber toured Emmanuel College (the alma mater of John Harvard), and visited the Cambridge Biomedical Campus.
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Convocation
"You will learn more from difficult moments of tension than from easy moments of understanding," President Garber told the Class of 2028.
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Morning Prayers
President Garber urged the campus community to seek opportunities for unity in a time of divisiveness at the first Morning Prayers ceremony of the new academic year.
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Washington, D.C. visit
Alan Garber spoke with many students and alums during his visit to the capital city.
Climate Action
The Harvard community is rising to the challenge of protecting our planet. Across all of our Schools we are advancing research to create real-world climate solutions.
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Improving Democracy
Harvard experts are exploring ways to improve and cultivate democracies around the world.
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Artificial Intelligence
Harvard experts are exploring how artificial intelligence is rapidly changing our world and our daily life, from health care to education, policy to art.
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Informed Aging
The Harvard community is exploring the physical, spiritual, and intellectual aspects of growing older.
Learn more about Harvard's research into healthy aging
News
Wonder served him well
Curiosity ignited Alan Garber’s sense of purpose. Classmates, mentors, and patients helped deepen it.
Harvard Gazette
March 4, 2026
Wonder served him well
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‘This is not about Harvard. It is about higher education.’
Harvard Gazette
April 15, 2026
‘This is not about Harvard. It is about higher education.’
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Looking Ahead
January 29, 2026
Looking Ahead
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Garber to lead Harvard beyond 2026-27 academic year
December 15, 2025
Garber to lead Harvard beyond 2026-27 academic year
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Continuing Our Work Together
December 15, 2025
Continuing Our Work Together
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Eight projects win Building Bridges grants to spark constructive dialogue on campus
Harvard Gazette
December 4, 2025
Eight projects win Building Bridges grants to spark constructive dialogue on campus