Alumni & People

curation of alumni people, faculty and student profiles

Conan O’Brien in a dark suit and light shirt, smiling and posing with hands clasped.

Conan O’Brien Named Harvard’s 2026 Commencement Speaker

The comedian, host, and 1985 graduate will deliver remarks at the May 28 ceremony. 

by Schuyler Velasco

Student orators Blake Lopez, Shruthi Kumar, and Robert Clinton

Commencement Student Speakers 2024

Harvard’s student Commencement speakers 2024

by Max J. Krupnick

Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla, together with the Lord Mayor, exit St Paul's Cathedral after the service.

Harvard Graduate Michael Mainelli Lord Mayor of London

Harvard's Michael Mainelli, the 695th Lord Mayor of London.

by Robert Sprung

The Engagement Ring Has a Thorny Legal History

Harvard law professor Rebecca Tushnet gets into the details of romantic legal reform.

by Olivia Farrar

NYPD begin setting up barricades, closing in Pro-Palestinian demonstrators rallying outside the Columbia University

When to Arrest Protesters

Should civil disobedience merit a police response?

by Max J. Krupnick

members of the Harvard cricket team pictured before a game on a field

Crimson Cricket?

Taking a Harvard swing at a blossoming sport

by Max J. Krupnick

Harvard Radcliffe Institute Announces 2024-2025 Fellows

Scholars will pursue interdisciplinary research on climate change, the Supreme Court, and more. 

by Nina Pasquini

Harvard Professor James Hanken on the Amphibian Extinction Crisis

Curator of herpetology on where all the frogs are going

by Olivia Farrar

Proactive AI Policy

Businesses should start self-regulating before government intervention, argue Harvard professors.

by Nina Pasquini

Photograph of participants in a symposium on AI at Harvard

AI @ Harvard

Harvard symposium assesses the new technology.

by Jonathan Shaw

Event advertisement for pernicious prejudice panel

How Does Hate Spread?

Harvard symposium probes antisemitic, Islamophobic sentiments

by Max J. Krupnick