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.
Three Alumni Named as National Book Award Finalists
An historian, a poet, and a translator
Two Harvard Affiliates Share Chemistry Nobel
Recognized for advances in functional chemistry
Justice Elena Kagan, in Dissent
Ebbing trust in the Supreme Court, and what to do about it
Greenland’s Fingerprint in Rising Seas
Satellite data reveal the first unambiguous evidence linking a melting ice sheet to a predicted pattern of sea level rise.
Will Global Democracy Survive?
Scholars on the current rise of fascism, domestically and abroad
Human and Machine Intelligence
Launching Harvard’s Kempner Institute
“My Time in the Paint”
An athlete contends with injury and identity.
by Rachel Levy
Saving Lives in Ukraine
Brooks Newmark ’80 evacuates women, children, and the elderly with his “Dunkirk-like fleet” of humanitarian buses.
America’s Riven Politics
A Harvard Magazine Q & A with Evan Osnos ’98, author of Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury
Harvard Launches Science and Engineering Startup Program
The Grid will provide funding, mentoring, educational programming, and dedicated workspace to support startups from Harvard labs.