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

Notes on Doctoring

Michael Stanley and the covenant of medicine

by Lydialyle Gibson

Harvard alumni in their Commencement day finery preparing for the traditional alumni parade

Celebrating Alumni, Anew

Changes afoot for Harvard’s annual alumni meeting

Photo of Carolyn Gold and the cover of her book, When I Died

Life After Brain Injury

Alumna Carolyn Gold on finding a “new self” after West Nile encephalitis

by Lydialyle Gibson

Amy Goodman featured in her broadcast studio giving the peace sign

People-Powered Journalism

At Democracy Now! Amy Goodman goes “where the silence is.”

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Alumni Admissions Interviewers Honored

Miller-Hunn Awards

2021 HAA Award Winners

For outstanding service 

Photograph of Edgar J. Banks as he appeared in a 1920s book on his archaeological explorations

Edgar James Banks

Brief life of an entrepreneurial archaeologist: 1866-1945

by Nancy Freudenthal

Emily Broad Leib in front of produce

The Food Waste Problem

Emily Broad Leib combats wasted food worldwide.

by Jacob Sweet

Jason Bouldin at work on a painting in his studio

The Art of the Portrait Painter

Jason Bouldin makes the intangible tangible.

by Lydialyle Gibson

A smiling woman in a red scarf with brown hair

How Myth and Memoir Intertwine

Elisabeth Sharp McKetta ’01 finds truth in the border between fact and fiction.

by Juliet Isselbacher