Alumni
Explore Harvard alumni stories, news, and achievements—covering reunions, profiles, and the global impact of Harvard graduates.
Summers Takes Leave Amid Harvard Probe
Previously undisclosed Epstein links to Harvard affiliates leads to a University review.
Keeping It Green
Profiles of Maryann Thompson, who practices sustainable architecture; Sarah Beatty, who founded a green building-supplies company; and David Hamilton, who works to preserve farmland
Albert Gallatin Browne Jr.
William P. MacKinnon profiles the early war correspondent who covered the Utah War against the Mormon government of Brigham Young.
Alex Ross Wins MacArthur
Music critic Alex Ross ’90 has just been named a MacArthur Fellow for his encyclopedic first book...
Tiktaalik Resurfaces
In today’s New York Times, science writer John Noble Wilford reports on new findings (to be published tomorrow in the journal Nature) about Tiktaalik roseae, a fossil fish that...
The Mailer-Buckley Connection
The late Norman Mailer ’43, a prolific and pugnacious author, apparently wrote a lot of letters to go with his many published works—some 50,000 letters archived by Michael Lennon, according to The New Yorker...
Fighting the Illegal Logging Trade
Alexander von Bismarck ’94 (’02)—one of the Bismarcks, great-great-grandnephew of Otto von Bismarck—has been working undercover, at no small risk, trying to counter the enormous worldwide trade in illegal logging and timber smuggling...
Tall Tales
Arianne Cohen ’03—a onetime Harvard Magazine Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow— is publishing a second book—The Tall Book: A Celebration of Life on High, which promises "a fascinating and informative look into the world of tall people"...
Seriously Funny
Ian Frazier combines an historian's discipline with an original comic mind...
"Open to Difference"
Three alumnae rabbis help redefine an ancient calling...
Harvard Proponent
The Harvard Alumni Association’s new president is Walter H. Morris Jr. ’73, M.B.A. ’75...