Alumni

Explore Harvard alumni stories, news, and achievements—covering reunions, profiles, and the global impact of Harvard graduates.

Collage of professional headshots, labeled "Board of Overseers" and "Board of Directors."

Harvard Elects New Overseers, HAA Directors

Leaders for the governing board and alumni association were chosen by an alumni vote.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Frontispiece (1772) for <i>Encyclop&eacute;die</i>, edited by Denis Diderot: Truth, bathed in light, is unveiled by Philosophy and Reason

Excerpt from "Fire and Light" by James MacGregor Burns

James MacGregor Burns, Ph.D. ’47, on intellect, governance, and the Enlightenment

J.C. Buttre&rsquo;s portrait, probably drawn when Everett ran for vice president on the Constitutional Union Party ticket in 1860, links him to Harvard and George Washington, one of his favorite subjects. (His lectures raised more than $100,000 to help purchase Mount Vernon [see <a href="http://harvardmagazine.com/2011/05/granny-talk">“Granny Talk”</a>], and he wrote the entry on Washington for the 1860 <i>Encyclopaedia Britannica.</i>)

Brief life of statesman-orator Edward Everett, by Castle Freeman

Brief life of a statesman-orator: 1794-1865

Martin Karplus

2013 Nobel laureate in chemistry Martin Karplus '51 describes life and work

Harvard chemist Martin Karplus speaks to the press.

Martin Karplus

Harvard professor Martin Karplus Nobel Prize chemistry

Richards professor of chemistry emeritus, two others recognized for modeling complex chemical systems

Harvard alumnus James E. Rothman shares Nobel Prize in medicine

Yale cell biologist, two others, are recognized for work on vesicles and cellular transport.

Reza Aslan

Reza Aslan discusses bestseller "Zealot" at Harvard Divinity School

The author discusses his bestseller, Zealot, at Harvard Divinity School.

An honorand and the principal guest speaker at the 2007 Commencement exercises, Bill Gates reveled in collecting his Harvard degree—30-plus years after he dropped out of the College.

Walter Isaacson on Microsoft's founder Bill Gates at Harvard

Walter Isaacson on "complete rejectionist" Bill Gates at Harvard College—and the birth of personal-computer software

Geyser University Professor emeritus Henry Rosovsky (at left) and members of the Stone family, including grandson Robert Stone ’12, Gregg Stone ’75, J.D. ’79, Marion (Rockefeller) Stone, and Jennifer P. Stone ’80, M.D. ’86, together with Quincy residents Franco Iudiciani ’16 (far left) and Onyeka Nnaemeka ’16 (obscured at right), witnessed grandson Eric Green ’16 cut the ribbon that officially opened Stone Hall’s F entry.

Quincy House's twenty-first-century Stone Hall is dedicated

Quincy House’s renovated wing honors passionate Harvardian Robert G. Stone Jr. ’45.

On June 18, at the first sight of Mount McKinley near Wonder Lake, Alaska, Peter Carman climbed atop the team's VW Microbus for a better look.

Seven Harvardians’ Denali feat still unmatched after 50 years

Seven Harvardians’ Denali feat still unmatched after 50 years

by John Graham

Shared Interest Group events in September and October

Shared Interest Group events in September and October