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.
Campus, Interrupted
The Undergraduate returns to student life, altered by the pandemic and a year spent apart.
The Mystery of Smell
COVID-19 shines a spotlight on a once-obscure field of science.
Edgar James Banks
Brief life of an entrepreneurial archaeologist: 1866-1945
The Food Waste Problem
Emily Broad Leib combats wasted food worldwide.
by Jacob Sweet
Speaking Pheromone
How science is done, in the lab of E.O. Wilson
The Art of the Portrait Painter
Jason Bouldin makes the intangible tangible.
How Myth and Memoir Intertwine
Elisabeth Sharp McKetta ’01 finds truth in the border between fact and fiction.
Seven Harvard Affiliates Named HHMI Investigators
The designation comes with $9 million in research support
Penny Pritzker Gives $100 Million for New Harvard Economics Facility
Landmark support for an eminently strong department
Namwali Serpell’s Novel-In-Progress
The acclaimed author and English professor will explore mourning and reunion in The Furrows: An Elegy.