Students

The Harvard Innovation Labs has been recognized by TIME and Statista as one of America's Best Incubators & Accelerators 2026, which ranks the top-performing startup hubs across the United States.

For three decades, the Harvard Forest Summer Research Program in Ecology has prepared undergraduates from around the globe for careers in the sciences.

Since 2014, Harvard and the Warrior-Scholar Project have partnered to prepare military veterans and active-duty service members for success in higher education.

Each summer, the Rising Scholars Program (RSP) prepares incoming first-year students from under-resourced high schools to thrive at Harvard College.

From leading democracy reform efforts in Michigan to studying public leadership at Harvard Kennedy School, Paige Swem MC/MPA ’26 has championed grassroots, participatory approaches that bring citizens into decision-making and strengthen democratic systems from the ground up.

The Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, the oldest student-run legal services organization in the country, is partnering with a local parent-led group to protect the rights of families affected by child welfare investigations.

A group of Harvard Graduate School of Education students serve as fellows at the City Arts and Sciences Academy in Lynn, Massachusetts, overseeing student-led projects and working directly with teachers and administrators at the new public school, which is focused on blending science and arts with project-based, democratic learning.

Three Harvard Medical School students have been awarded the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans—a merit-based award that supports outstanding immigrants and children of immigrants pursuing graduate education in the United States—in recognition of their work advancing infectious disease treatment, AI-driven approaches to patient care, and cancer therapeutics.

A first-of-its-kind Rurality Forum, organized by the Harvard Undergraduate Rural League and supported by the President's Building Bridges Fund, aims to address small-town America’s most urgent issues while confronting the urban-rural divide.

Students in the course “Engineering Problem Solving and Design Project” worked with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative to develop a rugged programmable box that helps humanitarian workers with data collection.