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.
Starlink
Seniors hunker down in communal quarantine.
by Eve Driver
Building a Better COVID-19 Swab
Engineers at the Wyss Institute address a critical shortage of nasal swabs.
Alone on Harvard’s Campus
Most days, I see no one at all.
by Jeremy Tsai
At Home with Harvard: The Climate Crisis
Highlights from our wide-ranging coverage of the environment
At Home with Harvard: Rewriting History
From race and colonization to genetics and paleohistory, our favorite stories about the people reshaping the study of history
Letting Go of the “Ideal” Classroom
“The ‘ideal’ classroom never existed anyway, at least not in a perfectly equitable manner,” writes Julie Chung ’20.
by Julie Chung
Zoom and the zero commute
“The biggest obstacle to our collective learning is the elephant in the room: a global pandemic, taking place amid existing inequalities,” writes Drew Pendergrass ’20.
The Undergraduate on power and the denial of scholarship
A student scientist contemplates power and the denial of scholarship.
Harvard fencing squad update
How Harvard fencers won an Ivy championship
by Jacob Sweet
Walter Johnson writes about “The Broken Heart of America”
Walter Johnson’s radical history of St. Louis