Alumni
Explore Harvard alumni stories, news, and achievements—covering reunions, profiles, and the global impact of Harvard graduates.
Is the Press Still Free?
A Harvard alumni panel discusses New York Times Co. v. Sullivan and threats to journalists today.
Harvard in Chicago
The Harvard Club of Chicago, the oldest continually operating Harvard club in existence, celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2007. The year-long...
Sweet Science
At the Leverett House Grill in the late 1980s, Joanne Chang ’91 first turned pro as a baker, selling four freshly baked chocolate chip...
Not Groucho (but Way Funny)
For a long time, Patricia Marx ’75 assumed she “would wake up in the suburbs with three kids and a mother hairdo.” It...
Moving Pictures, Hard Questions
It was a rare rainy night in Los Angeles. Filling up his tank at a local gas station, a man noticed the silhouette of another man, just beyond...
Profile of Broadway set designer Derek McLane
Set designer Derek McLane (Harvard ’80) has designed stages for "Grease," "Guys and Dolls," "The Pajama Game," and Pulitzer Prize-winning "I Am My Own Wife," and many other plays.
David Charbonneau
On camping trips in northern Ontario as a Boy Scout, David Charbonneau, Ph.D. ’01, Cabot associate professor of astronomy, remembers...
Wartime Legalities
At 6 a.m. in western Baghdad, the thermometer has already punched through 100 degrees across the barren lands around Camp Victory. As Colonel...
Is McCain a Double-Edged Sword for Democrats?
Writing in Time magazine, Michael Kinsley ’72, J.D. ’78, says Democrats like presidential candidate John McCain too much for their own good.
Kamen: Who Would Obama's VP Be?
Kamen is running a contest and asking readers to e-mail in their predictions...
Amid Tradition, a Symbol of Change
The New York Times profiles Nicole M. Parent ’93, the first female president of the Harvard Club of New York City, which did not even admit women until 1973...