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

Painting of Amos A. Lawrence, 1887, by Eastman Johnson.

Expansive CVs, and extracurricular insights

Expansive CVs, and extracurricular insights

by Primus VI

Photograph of Professor Eric Nelson, seated, wearing a coat and tie

Can perfect equality exist?

Eric Nelson says John Rawls led modern philosophy astray.

by John A. Griffin

A judge presides over an urban landscape from atop a tall building

Should “acting locally” become a legal mandate?

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

by Cherone Duggan

Photograph of Ryan Enos

Social geographer Ryan Enos

The political scientist explains “social geography.”

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

William G. Kaelin pictured in his home in Boston shortly after receiving the call from Sweden

William Kaelin Wins Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Kaelin is the forty-ninth Harvard faculty member to win the Nobel. 

Harvard education dean Bridget Terry Long and Sesame Workshop CEO Jeffrey Dunn with a group of Muppets

Sesame Street's fiftieth anniversary party at Harvard

Sesame Street celebrates a 50-year collaboration with Harvard.

by Lydialyle Gibson

A scan from the program for the eighth annual conference of the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Technology, including the words "peer learning" and a drawing of a lightbulb.

Eighth Annual HILT Conference Focuses on Peer Learning

The eighth annual conference of the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching

by Jonathan Shaw

A lake next to a mountain with autumn foliage and fog

Is Climate Change Ruining Fall?

Fewer cold nights could mean muted displays of fall color. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

A portrait of Jerry Mitrovica at his desk

Harvard's Jerry X. Mitrovica Awarded MacArthur grant

The geophysicist has pioneered the understanding that sea-level rise around the globe will vary significantly depending on crustal dynamics and gravitational forces. 

by Jonathan Shaw

The class of 2023 displays its class year banner for the first time

Convocation 2019

First-year Convocation for the class of 2023

by Nina Pasquini