Alumni

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

A speaker in academic regalia stands before an audience during a ceremony outdoors.

Harvard College Dean Deming Launches Podcast

In interviews with accomplished people, he traces their circuitous routes to success.

by Laurel M. Shugart

Bob Friedman (third in line) with SEED saver Jemel Jones, his mother, Patricia Jones, and Andrea Pardon, SEED program manager at Jemel’s school

Profile of Bob Friedman, founder of the Corporation for Enterprise Development

Bob Friedman ’71 looks for ladders to help people climb out of poverty.

by Ben Beach

David Bisno in the Santa Barbara (California) Courthouse clock tower’s Bisno-Schall Gallery

David Bisno and the Bisno-Schall Gallery in the Santa Barbara Courthouse

David Bisno ’61 has spearheaded the creation of a mini-museum of horology in the Santa Barbara Courthouse.

by Joan Tapper

Top row from left: Teresita Alvarez-Bjelland, F. Gorham Brigham, and Deborah Gelin. Bottom row from left: Joseph K. Hurd Jr., John Paul Kennedy, and Michael G. Yamin

Harvard Alumni Association Award winners for 2012

Six alumni are recognized for outstanding service to the University.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Carl Muller

New Harvard Alumni Association president Carl Muller

Meet Harvard Alumni Association president Carl Muller.

by Nell Porter-Brown

A Shared Interest Group for first-generation college-goers

A Shared Interest Group aims to support undergraduates whose parents didn't attend a four-year college.

by Nell Porter-Brown

David Jones

Short profile of David Jones, Ackerman professor of the culture of medicine

David Jones, Ackerman professor of the culture of medicine, works in both history and medicine.

Seiji Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, in Lenox, Massachusetts. The hall opened in 1994. With the “barn door” open, picnickers enjoy a concert.

Architect William Rawn, who designs buildings for the public realm, is profiled

William Rawn’s designs begin not with the eye, but the ear.

by Craig Lambert

Ronald Reagan wrote in his presidential diary for September 12, 1988: “Then a briefing for a pleasant interview which took place at 11:30 with Warren Brooks [sic] my favorite Ec. columnist.”

Warren Brookes, "pneumatic" journalist, by Charles G. Kels

Brief life of a “pneumatic” journalist: 1929-1991

by Charles G. Kels

The Murphy High School Marching Band before a game in Mobile, Alabama, captured in <i>Why We Are Here</i>

Recent books by John Palfrey, E.O. Wilson, George Church, and others

Interoperability, rebuilding New Orleans, the Brothers Grimm, and other books with Harvard connections

Thomas P. Wolf

A novel, "Sound," by Thomas P. Wolf, notated like a musical score

A novel, Sound, notated like a musical score

by Craig Lambert