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. 

by Schuyler Velasco

And the Academy Award Goes to…Math

Ben Zauzmer '15 tackles Oscars predictions, with math. 

by Jacob Sweet

Harvard faculty vote, governing board divestment

FAS votes for divestment, and perhaps a contending Overseers’ slate

by John S. Rosenberg

A Gut Renovation for U.S. Labor Law

A Harvard Law School initiative calls for rewriting labor law “to shift power from corporations to workers.” 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Human impact on New England ecology was minimal before Europeans arrived

Before Europeans arrived in New England, local ecology was driven by climate shifts, not by human interventions.

by Jonathan Shaw

Harvard Overseer election and divestment

The spring-semester agenda on climate-change advocacy takes shape—on campus and beyond.

by John S. Rosenberg

Astronomers name interstellar “ripple” the “Radcliffe Wave”

The massive “Radcliffe Wave” traces a new map of the sky.

by Bennett McIntosh

Annette Samuels makes a return visit to Harvard

Annette Samuels ’55 goes back to class.

by Jacob Sweet

The Harvard Cabin on Mount Washington

The Harvard Mountaineering Club’s Mount Washington cabin

by Nell Porter-Brown

The A.R.T.’s “Gloria: A Life“

“Gloria: A Life,” at the American Repertory Theater

by Nell Porter-Brown

Systems biology helps develop a promising diagnostic

A potential “paradigm shift” in developing new diagnostic tests in mental health

by Erin O’Donnell