Academic & Research

Student-run group analyzing sports strategy and management quantitatively, meeting weekly for students into sports stats, business, and problem solving.

Undergraduate aerospace group with Satellite, Rocketry, and UAV teams that hold weekly project meetings and professional development events.

Student group connecting undergraduates with cancer research labs, oncology shadowing, case discussions, and mentorship from graduate students and faculty.

Undergraduate group offering education, speaker events, mentorship, facility tours, and workshops to prepare students for careers in the clean energy transition.

Weekly meetings of hands-on practice, lectures, and industry talks on cybersecurity, plus annual competitions, open to all undergraduates.

Student group that obtains public Harvard data and analyzes it, publishing findings on campus topics like elections and concentration trends.

Undergraduate-run group connecting econ concentrators and the curious with faculty, mentors and peers, and running global high school econ competitions.

Student-run project studios where undergraduates in small teams apply technology and data to education, health, art, and culture.

Undergraduate group running intro fellowships, speaker events, socials, and career resources to help members explore effective altruism and pursue high-impact careers.

Undergraduate ethics group that competes in regional and national Ethics Bowl competitions and hosts an annual high school Ethics Bowl.

Student-led nonprofit connecting undergraduates to foreign policy decision-making through policy research, speaker events, and conferences.

Undergraduate group working to foster an inclusive math community, with a focus on gender inclusivity in mathematics.

Student teams developing accessible medical technologies with on-the-ground partners for low-resource healthcare settings worldwide.

Community of undergraduates from varied disciplines doing synthetic biology research and hosting a student biohackathon.

Harvard Undergraduate Linguistics Society (HULS), a student group dedicated to the study of linguistics, which has/is continuously in the process of creating a conlang known as HULSese.

Undergraduate community for AI and machine learning, running student-led workshops and projects on current developments.

Student organization enriching the undergraduate math community through mentorship programs, social events, and career panels.

Undergraduate community for microbiology students offering guest speakers, lab tours, policy workshops, and research opportunities in AMR, diagnostics, and global health equity.

Student community supporting undergraduate biology research by providing space, resources, funding, and advising, plus a 6-week bio venture series.

Undergraduate group educating the public on psychedelic research, history, and culture, and advocating for decriminalizing psychedelic medicines.

Student community offering mentorship and projects to prepare undergraduates for careers in quantitative finance.

Undergraduate group offering talks, panels, reading groups, and a research mentorships program on quantum information science and quantum computing.

Undergraduate group that builds an interdisciplinary research community through peer advising, campus symposia, and a national student research conference.

Peer-reviewed journal publishing original undergraduate research across the sciences and humanities, with students running the publication process.

Student group offering undergraduates robotics projects to work on and a community of engineers to build them with.

Service branch helping K-12 students, especially underrepresented ones, prepare for Science Olympiad tournaments and learn STEM through free online resources.

Student group exploring, discussing, and implementing AI advances and their societal impacts, open to anyone interested in AI, including policy and interdisciplinary angles.

Student chapter of a national nonprofit offering peer support groups and a volunteer buddy program for people with brain injury.

Student-led urban studies group at Harvard College that partners with local governments and impact groups on interdisciplinary urban research.

Advocacy group, professional development network, and community for women pursuing computer science at Harvard and beyond.

Student-volunteer-run math tournament organized by Harvard and MIT students, who write and test-solve problems and run contest day.

Harvard-Radcliffe Society of Physics Students, a collection of dedicated students drawing from backgrounds in physics and closely related fields towards the celebration and discussion of physical topics.

Annual engineering makeathon where undergraduate and graduate students from any background build projects and compete for prizes.

Mentorship program pairing undergraduate and graduate math students based on shared identities and interests.

Community supporting career development for scientists from groups underrepresented in academic departments at Harvard.

Volunteer group pairing students one-on-one with memory care residents with Alzheimer's at two Boston-area senior care facilities.

Student-run organization with a mission to educate students on research related to optics and photonics

Offers free seminars, lessons, social events, and written pieces on science for the public, and gives science PhD students practice communicating.

Women in Science Network at Harvard

Chapter of a national society that empowers women to succeed as engineers and leaders and promotes diversity and inclusion in engineering and technology.

Undergraduate-led group running public telescope open houses, pop-up telescope nights, dark sky trips and telescope classes for anyone curious about the night sky.

Weekly hands-on environmental science lessons for campers at each of PBHA's Summer Urban Program camps.

Weekly hands-on science lessons, such as chemical reactions and states of matter, for students at PBHA's Summer Urban Program camps.

Task Force on Asian and Pacific American Studies at Harvard College promotes Asian and Pacific American Studies by bringing together students, faculty, staff, and alumni and facilitating multidisciplinary academic discussion and social connection.

Community for undergraduate women in science, offering academic, career and public service programs, mentoring networks and discussion of women's issues.

Supportive community for women and non-binary students at MIT and Harvard studying or researching AI and machine learning, beginners included.