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.
Comedy with a Conscience
Jimmy Tingle’s political humor in a polarized era
Finding the Movie
Screenwriter Julian Breece on “writing from the soul”
Stories of a Not-So-Distant War
Novelist V.V. Ganeshananthan on writing diasporic fiction
by Bailey Trela
The Modern World Reconceived
Interpreting politics through the rise of technocracy, morality, and the “web of capital”
Albanian Joins the Language Curriculum
Harvard is the only Ivy League institution to offer the rare European language.
Hume, Heaney, Harvard—and Peace in Northern Ireland
In life and literature, living “dangerously out between” opposing factions while seeking common ground
Improving Accessibility
A Harvard Kennedy School panel raises unnoticed policy issues.
Humans on Horseback
New evidence on domestication of horses—and the spread of an ancient Eurasian culture
A Wide Receiver on the Basketball Court
Chris Ledlum ’23 makes his mark on the hardcourt.
Research Clusters Seek Climate Solutions
Teams of Harvard researchers will develop concrete proposals for addressing specific climate impacts.