Alumni

NFL Referee Ron Torbert Makes the Tough Calls

A Harvard Law alum puts his degree to work on the field.

by Craig Lambert

News from the HAA

Candidates for Election This spring, five new Harvard Overseers and six new elected directors for the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) board...

Studies Nature, Will Travel

From the highest treetops to the tiniest anthills on the ground below, Mark Moffett, Ph.D. ’87, has seen it all. An expert in insects and...

Comings and Goings

University clubs offer a variety of social and intellectual events. Following is a partial list of Harvard-affiliated speakers appearing at...

Radcliffe and Other “Shared Interest Groups”

Among the University’s new Shared Interest Groups (SIGs) is the fledgling Alumnae and Friends of Radcliffe College, led by Ellen Gordon...

Eternal Creatures

Top: A nudibranch. Bottom: A “by-the-wind sailor” sea jelly. Photographs courtesy of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology...

Science and Sculpture

Behind Michael Burke’s childhood home in rural New Jersey stands a series of his aluminum sculptures. Called Quantum Stream, these seven...

by Nell Porter-Brown

Ultimate islander Philip Conkling

There are almost 5,000 islands off the coast of Maine, most large enough only for a few tern or osprey nests, but some the size of a small city...

by Casey N. Cep

Writer, Reformer, Physician-in-Training

As an undergraduate volunteering at the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter, Sachin Jain ’02 couldn’t help but notice that many of its...

“This Craving to Fly”

In a darkened alley next to the Cleveland Public Theatre, the crowd stares up at a sprite in white suspended from two rings high above the...

by Nell Porter-Brown

Alumni College

The Alumni College programs, run by the Harvard Alumni Association, range from day-long symposia to two-hour workshops and cover an array of...