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 Pandemic’s Economic Fallout
How the COVID-19 economic crisis has been fundamentally different from past recessions
by Matteo Wong
At Home with Harvard: Pride Month
Stories on LGBTQ life, research, and history at Harvard
Harvard Scientists #Strike4BlackLives
Academia’s reckoning with anti-black racism
Searching for a COVID-19 vaccine
The when and how of vaccines
Harvard fall coronavirus decisions
The factors influencing the fall semester—and beyond
The Undergraduate faces life without handrails
The Undergraduate faces up to a postgraduate life without handrails.
by Julie Chung
Profile of Harvard diver Georgina Milne
Diver Georgina Milne pictures a post-pandemic return.
by Jacob Sweet
“Lives in Limbo”—Roberto Gonzales tallies the human and social costs
Sociologist Roberto Gonzales on the predicament of undocumented young people
Nicholas Burns on diplomacy’s role in fostering U.S. standing in the world
On restoring American leadership through diplomacy
Music theorist Alexander Rehding profiled by Jacob Sweet
A professor’s interstellar reach
by Jacob Sweet