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 Power of Plants
Exploring the “plant humanities” at Harvard’s Dumbarton Oaks
Hansjörg Wyss Gives $350 Million to Bioengineering Institute
The philanthropist makes a fourth gift to support basic and translational research.
Three Harvardians Awarded 2022 MacArthur "Genius" Grants
A mathematician, a chemist, and a professor of medicine who studies the health effects of incarceration
Ben S. Bernanke ’75 Shares Economics Nobel
Three scholars honored for work on banking and financial crises.
The Off-Kilter Economy
Reckoning with inflation and its remedies
Straight Lines and Odd Angles
Painter Judith Seligson’s creative juxtapositions
Celeste Ng debuts new novel
“Our Missing Hearts” embodies the author’s hope that storytelling can be an agent of change.
Where We Went Wrong
A sweeping history of society and the economy in the twentieth century
NFL Referee Ron Torbert Makes the Tough Calls
A Harvard Law alum puts his degree to work on the field.
2022 Aloian Scholarship Winners
Enriching life in the Houses