Alumni

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

A man in a suit waves while smiling, with greenery in the background.

Remembering Jack Reardon

He was Harvard’s quintessential people person.

by Jonathan Shaw

Princess Marie and Jensen pose beside Jensen's finished portrait of the princess

Harvard Portraitist Nina Skov Jensen Paints Celebrities and Princesses

Nina Skov Jensen ’25, portraitist for collectors and the princess of Denmark. 

by Lydialyle Gibson

Moore dancing with the Universal Robotics robot

The Harvard Ballerina and Physicist

Ballerina and quantum physicist Merritt Moore ’11 connects humans and machines.

by Nina Pasquini

Letters from our readers

Leadership crisis, Israel and Gaza, “Undergraduate” Insights

Photograph of Lara Schwartz

Dialogue, not Debate

American University’s Lara Schwartz, J.D. ’98, teaches productive disagreement.

by Max J. Krupnick

Michael Hill in a Marlins quarter zip

Leading with Care

Michael Hill strikes the right balance.

by Max J. Krupnick

Naomi Bashkansky sits on a table with a chess board behind her.

Strategic Planning

A chess player’s moves on AI safety

by Nina Pasquini

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Spellbound on Stage

Actor and young adult novelist Aislinn Brophy

by Lydialyle Gibson

Daniel Mason posing with a tree

A Dogged Observer

Novelist and psychiatrist Daniel Mason takes the long view.

by Max J. Krupnick

Cambridge 02138

The campus sundered, stem cell research, voting, and more

Map depicting the two sites of two cousins: one lived in central Mongolia, the author in southern Russia

Cousins in the Ancient World

Long-distance human migration and population bottlenecks revealed in ancient DNA

by Jonathan Shaw