Alumni Profiles

Salvador Litvak smiles, arms crossed, in a vest and hat on a city street.

Montage | May-June 2025

Faith through Film

The “Accidental Talmudist” on making Jewish movies

by Max J. Krupnick

Apollonia Poilâne standing in front of rows of fresh-baked loaves at her family's flagship bakery

University People | November-December 2023

Her Bread and Butter

A third-generation French baker on legacy loaves and the "magic" of baking

by Nell Porter-Brown

John Harvard's Journal | September-October 2023

“This global, diverse, vibrant community”

Alumni Association President Ty Moore

by Nell Porter-Brown

Anwar Floyd-Pruitt standing off a red, white, and blue mural he painted after George Floyd’s death. Floyd's right hand is bandaged after he was attacked while painting the mural.

Montage | September-October 2023

Getting His Reps in

Anwar Floyd-Pruitt’s wildly profuse art

by Lydialyle Gibson

Ben Purkert headshot

Montage | September-October 2023

The Men Who Can’t Be Saved

Novelist Ben Purkert’s playfully serious look at masculinity

by Stuart Miller

Amir Bitran

Montage | September-October 2023

Making Music Out of DNA Loops

Composer and biophysicist Amir Bitran ’16, Ph.D. ’23

by Nancy Walecki

Portrait of editors Rebecca Panovka and Kiara Barrow

University People | September-October 2023

The New Little Magazines

Keeping literature and long-form journalism alive

by Nancy Walecki

Screenshot of Tracy Kidder, Jim O'Connell, and Shira Simon

Alumni Profiles |

Treating Boston’s “Rough Sleepers”

Tracy Kidder and physician Jim O’Connell discuss health care for the homeless.

by Ryan Doan-Nguyen

Balcetis smiling and holding the NBA championship trophy, with his arm around his wife

Sports & Athletics |

Harvard’s NBA Champion

Denver Nuggets assistant general manager Tommy Balcetis ’10 

by David L. Tannenwald

Gram Parsons stands in front of a bus in Harvard Square

Features | July-August 2023

Sound as Ever

Gram Parsons and Harvard’s hand in country rock

by Nancy Walecki

Ursula Bailey working in a Harvard geology laboratory, 1945

Features | July-August 2023

Trailblazer in Space Science: The Legacy of Harvard's Ursula B. Marvin

Brief life of a pioneering planetary geologist: 1921-2018

by David A. Kring