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

Meghan O'Sullivan 

Geopolitics and the Energy Transition

International relations during the shift to a net-zero economy

by Jonathan Shaw

Map depicting the two sites of two cousins: one lived in central Mongolia, the author in southern Russia

Cousins in the Ancient World

Long-distance human migration and population bottlenecks revealed in ancient DNA

by Jonathan Shaw

A conceptual illustration of a student seated in a classroom facing an imagined image of herself in a different environment with flowers and rocks

Is Pedagogy About Us?

Questioning the intellectual rigor of bringing identity into the classroom

by Isabella Cho

Three ORT packets

Solving Dehydration

A simple solution that saved millions

by Max J. Krupnick

Amanda Moreno Garcia stands in front of hospital

Battling Eating Disorders

A medical student’s cause

by Lindsay Mitchell

Image of American Eagle crashing into a whirlpool

Democracy Endangered

American democracy endangered by minority rule

Professor Myisha Eatmon photographed in Harvard's Barker Center

Break Every Chain

How black plaintiffs in the Jim Crow South sought justice

by Max J. Krupnick

Sharad Ramanathan in his laboratory

How to Make a Mammal

Studying the fates of cells, Sharad Ramanathan comes closer to understanding the biology of development.

by Jonathan Shaw

A woman in an orange sweater and cap stands in front of a large blue and green painting of a water-skiing woman.

The Philosopher of the Real World

Susanna Siegel moves beyond dialectical debates.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Tom Hyry photographed in Houghton Library

Tom Hyry

What Harvard's special collections librarian has learned from athletics, activism

by Max J. Krupnick