Alumni
Explore Harvard alumni stories, news, and achievements—covering reunions, profiles, and the global impact of Harvard graduates.
Harvard Faculty Debate Plan to Cap A Grades
At a lively meeting, faculty members weighed a grade inflation plan that most agreed is imperfect.
Harvard alumni leaders honored for volunteer work
Harvard Alumni Association awards honor volunteer service to the University.
Harvard Alumnus Recalls World War II
A member of the class of 1946 on the horrors, and humor, of World War II.
by Primus VI
George Bucknam Dorr
A brief life of a persistent conservationist and founder of Acadia National Park
Radcliffe alumna Judith Brodsky, on printmaking and risk-taking
From the beginning, artist and advocate Judith Brodsky felt “pulls in different directions.”
by Violet Baron
"The biggest mystery": Nicholas Britell, on scoring "Big Short," "Seventh Fire"
A film composer's career, from annotating Sneakers to doing “archaeology” for 12 Years a Slave
Bee hunting with Thomas D. Seeley: an excerpt from "Following the Wild Bees"
Thomas D. Seeley on the craft and science of bee hunting
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Spy novelist Joseph Finder, on the guilt and gumption that drive his writing
Joseph Finder makes technology the texture of his new thriller, Guilty Minds.
by Bailey Trela
Harvard alumna Sarah Alcorn reflects on her life as a private investigator
Boston-based private investigator Sarah Alcorn is “a bit of an oddball in this business.”
Pranks in Pusey Library
A retrospective on the Lampoon’s 140 years of mischief