Alumni Profiles
Spotlight stories on alumni who are leading, innovating, and making a difference.
How a Harvard Hockey Legend Became a Needlepoint Artist
Joe Bertagna’s retirement project recreates figures from Boston sports history.
Author Gabrielle Zevin profiled by Nell Porter Brown
A prescient novelist is hopeful that “after great change, amazing things can happen.”
At Home with Harvard: Harvard on the Small Screen
Discover a new series to watch in quarantine, or read about the creator behind your favorite show, in this selection of our TV stories
Harvard fencing squad update
How Harvard fencers won an Ivy championship
by Jacob Sweet
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Brief life of a breakthrough astronomer: 1900-1979
David Barrett reports on New York City’s birds
A quest to chronicle New York City’s avian community
Harvard Law School professor Alan Jenkins
A brief look at a Harvard Law School professor's long journey
by Jacob Sweet
Lindsay Reed, Harvard women’s ice-hockey goalie
The many saves of a six-foot goalie
Healthy Plate, Healthy Planet
Frank Hu confronts the triple threats of obesity, undernutrition, and climate change.
by Jacob Sweet
Pippa Norris on the global rise of populist authoritarianism
Harvard political scientist Pippa Norris chronicles the rise of populist authoritarians in Western democracies.
Playwright Antoinette Nwandu, profiled
Playwright Antoinette Nwandu confronts race, religion, and her personal history.