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. 

by Schuyler Velasco

Preserving craft and farm skills at Sanborn Mills Farm

Promoting craftsmanship and agrarian skills in an idyllic New Hampshire setting

by Nell Porter-Brown

2019 Miller-Hunn Award recipients

Honoring outstanding alumni interviewers for the College

Aloian Memorial Scholars for 2019 named

Honoring those who enrich the quality of life in their Houses

2019 HAA Award Recipients

For outstanding service to the University

Where teachers thrive, students do

Education policy should focus on schools as a whole, not individual teachers, argues Susan Moore Johnson.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Expansive CVs, and extracurricular insights

Expansive CVs, and extracurricular insights

by Primus VI

Can perfect equality exist?

Eric Nelson says John Rawls led modern philosophy astray.

by John A. Griffin

Should “acting locally” become a legal mandate?

In combatting climate change, will courts hold that the general welfare trumps local sovereignty?

by Cherone Duggan

Social geographer Ryan Enos

The political scientist explains “social geography.”

by Marina N. Bolotnikova