Alumni & People

curation of alumni people, faculty and student profiles

Conan O’Brien in a dark suit and light shirt, smiling and posing with hands clasped.

Conan O’Brien Named Harvard’s 2026 Commencement Speaker

The comedian, host, and 1985 graduate will deliver remarks at the May 28 ceremony. 

by Schuyler Velasco

Photograph of vacant streets and closed shops and restaurants in Manhattan's Chinatown

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

At Home with Harvard: Pride Month

Stories on LGBTQ life, research, and history at Harvard

An illustrated poster for the June 10, 2020 #ShutDownStem academic strike for Black Lives Matter, showing people of different races, genders, and abilities organizing for racial justice

Harvard Scientists #Strike4BlackLives

Academia’s reckoning with anti-black racism

by Lydialyle Gibson

Dan Barouch in his Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center laboratory

Searching for a COVID-19 vaccine

The when and how of vaccines

by Jonathan Shaw

Illustration of a woman in a lab coat studying shadows cast by vials of blood, each shadow a readout indicating the presence of a past exposure to a specific pathogen.

Harvard’s VirScan exposes viral vulnerabilities

A serological test may reveal the COVID-19 virus’s weaknesses—and expose its strategic decoys.

by Bennett McIntosh

2020 Harvard Cambridge Scholars

Headed to the other Cambridge  

Photograph of Martin Baron

Harvard Commencement 2020

Details of the virtual degree-conferral ceremonies

by John S. Rosenberg

Photos of three Harvard Medalists

2020 Harvard Medalists

For extraordinary service to the University

Pictured are Stephen Cook, Albert Fishlow, Helen Vendler, and Margaret Kivelson

2020 GSAS Centennial Medalists

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences’ honorands

Photograph of Melissa Dell

Harvard Portrait: Melissa Dell

“In the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, people in academic institutions like Harvard predominantly studied the U.S. and Europe,” says the development economist.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova