Alumni & People
curation of alumni people, faculty and student profiles
Conan O’Brien Named Harvard’s 2026 Commencement Speaker
The comedian, host, and 1985 graduate will deliver remarks at the May 28 ceremony.
The Evolutionary Case for Exercise
The off-label prescription from our hunter-gatherer ancestors
Artists Respond to the Climate Crisis at the Lahore Biennale
At the Lahore Biennale, artists respond to the climate crisis.
Harvard’s Nobel Prize Incubator
The Harvard University Bio Labs, home to 10 Nobel laureates on floor three and two on floor four
How Physics Can Be Used to Manipulate a Coin Toss
How a coin toss can be uniquely rigged – and can demonstrate probability’s role in reducing uncertainty.
Harvard’s Gilbert and Sullivan Players, Then and Now
Students adapt the operettas to changing times.
Villa I Tatti: How Donors Influence Harvard's Art, Culture, and Academic Experiences
How gifts shape student experiences, in often unseen ways
New Traditions
Connecting contemporary “intellectual virtues” to Harvard’s traditions
by Primus VI
Lee Junseok Wants to Remake Korean Politics
South Korea’s Lee Junseok tries to break old binaries.
Edwin Frank Explores the 20th-Century Novel in 'Stranger Than Fiction'
A book about books—and the protagonist is the twentieth-century novel itself.
Liv Redpath on “What You Can Say” Through Opera
Liv Redpath’s operatic trajectory