Alumni Profiles
Spotlight stories on alumni who are leading, innovating, and making a difference.
Meet the Harvard Alumni Association’s New President
David Battat promotes alumni engagement.
Author Gabrielle Zevin profiled by Nell Porter Brown
A prescient novelist is hopeful that “after great change, amazing things can happen.”
At Home with Harvard: Harvard on the Small Screen
Discover a new series to watch in quarantine, or read about the creator behind your favorite show, in this selection of our TV stories
Harvard fencing squad update
How Harvard fencers won an Ivy championship
by Jacob Sweet
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Brief life of a breakthrough astronomer: 1900-1979
David Barrett reports on New York City’s birds
A quest to chronicle New York City’s avian community
Jazz and blues bassist Matthew Berlin
Avocational bassist Matthew Berlin
Profile of novelist Yangsze Choo
Malaysian-born Yangsze Choo writes novels infused with the tropical mysteries of her childhood.
New York immigration activist Steven Choi
Steven Choi, J.D. ’04, works—and fights—at the vitriolic epicenter of immigration politics.
Morison, Handlin, and a new view of the Mem Hall fire
Morison, Handlin, and a new view of the Mem Hall fire
by Primus VI
Harvard Law School professor Alan Jenkins
A brief look at a Harvard Law School professor's long journey
by Jacob Sweet