Alumni News

Updates on Harvard alumni milestones, reunions, and community initiatives.

Will Makris in blue checkered suit and red patterned tie standing outdoors by stone column.

A New HAA President at a Tumultuous Time

A career in higher ed inspired Will Makris to give back.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Brian Lee

Harvard’s Development Chief Departs

Brian Lee to step down at end of 2024

by John S. Rosenberg

Alexander Heffner and Governor Maura Healey

Alexander Heffner Interviews Republican and Democratic Politicians

Alexander Heffner ’12 plumbs the state of democracy.

by Jack R. Trapanick

Harvard Medalists

Three honored on Alumni Day

Harvard Overseers and Harvard Alumni Association Election Results

Newly elected Overseers and Harvard Alumni Association directors

Man wearing red Harvard baseball cap addresses audience form podium

Harvard Alumni Day with Courtney B. Vance

Protest interruptions and a call to do “the right thing” 

by Lydialyle Gibson

group of four people standing outside

Saluting the 2024 Centennial Medalists

Four alumni of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences are honored.

by Jonathan Shaw

Loeb House, where Harvard’s governing boards meet

Overseer and HAA Director Members Elected

Harvard announces the results of the annual balloting.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Slow and Steady

A Harvard Law School graduate completes marathons in all 50 states.  

by Jacob Sweet

Photo of the Hrdys, author and husband, with their first grandchild

The Evolution of Human Fathers

Exploring the evolutionary biology of human fathers as caretakers

by Richard G. Bribiescas

Seamstresses at work in Egypt, 2006

In Egypt, Doors Closing

Leslie T. Change ’91 explores the lives of three women in the Egyptian textile industry.