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.
The Happiness Revolutionary
Arthur Brooks moved beyond policy—to something deeper.
Restored to Nature
Landscape architect Mikyoung Kim’s healing arts
Raising Her Voice
Singer-songwriter Reid Parsons on the irreplaceable instrument
The “Harvard Novel” Enters the Twenty-first Century
On Elif Batuman’s fictions
by Beth Blum
When Children Fall Ill
“You work in the hope space, and you tend to the grief.”
The Art of Lighting and Sound Design
Theater technicians Finn Bamber and Clay Oxford bring Harvard theater to life.
Home, Harvard, and (Im)permanence
The complicated return to campus post-pandemic
An Exchange of Violence
On the “exit wounds” of America’s gun industry in Mexico
Sarah Karmon to Lead Alumni Association
An HAA veteran will succeed Philip Lovejoy as executive director.
We Remember WWI
Alums’ remarkable memories of World War I, revisited this Veterans Day