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.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Harvard Commencement’s oldest attendees

The oldest graduates at Commencement

Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medalists of 2016

Honorands whose contributions to society emerged from graduate study

Harvard’s 365th Commencement

Harvard goes Hollywood for Commencement, with sunny scenery, but sober talk.

Harvard honorary-degree recipients of 2016

The honorands of 2016

Harvard Commencement humor

Speakers making funny at the 365th Commencement

Harvard 365th Commencement highlights

A multitalented student, political zingers, a retiring Commencement directors, final-club ribbing, and more

Brief life of mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch

Brief life of a mathematician and businessman: 1773-1839

by Tamara Plakins ...

How Franklin Leonard became screenwriters' most effective “hype man”

Turning the Black List into a business, to modernize Hollywood’s dream machine

by Sophia Nguyen

Chao Center Dedicated at HBS

Dignitaries help celebrate the new building’s opening day.

by Aidan Langston

Broad Institute Researchers Find New Method to Edit RNA

Feng Zhang ’04 and his team build on previous discoveries in editing DNA.

by Aidan Langston