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.
Divest Harvard Makes Case for Fossil Fuel Divestment
Students, faculty, and alumni urge the ditching of corporations linked to climate change.
“Building on the Continuity”
A conference looks back at Harvard’s 1969 student strike.
Nieman Fellow Eliza Griswold Wins Pulitzer Prize
Her book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America is the choice in general nonfiction.
by Jacob Sweet
The SIGnboard: Reunion Week Events
Shared Interest Group gatherings in Cambridge
Graphic novelist Amy Chu
Graphic novelist Amy Chu
Excerpt from Anne Harrington’s “Mind Fixers”
A history of psychiatry’s troubled search for the biology of mental illness
Naturalist Mark W. Moffett, author of “The Human Swarm”
Naturalist Mark W. Moffett investigates insects—and now, evolving human societies.
2019 Overseer and HAA Director Candidates
The official 2019 slates
In search of deeper learning
What the rare bright spots in American high-school education teach
Harvard Alumni Association executive director Philip Lovejoy has plans
The HAA’s Philip Lovejoy looks ahead