Alumni

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

Getting to Mars (for Real)

Humans have been dreaming of living on the Red Planet for decades. Harvard researchers are on the case.

by Olivia Farrar

Raising Her Voice

Singer-songwriter Reid Parsons on the irreplaceable instrument

by Lydialyle Gibson

When Children Fall Ill

“You work in the hope space, and you tend to the grief.”

by Nell Porter-Brown

Sarah Karmon to Lead Alumni Association

An HAA veteran will succeed Philip Lovejoy as executive director.

by John S. Rosenberg

We Remember WWI

Alums’ remarkable memories of World War I,  revisited this Veterans Day

by Adam Goodheart

Hansjörg Wyss Gives $350 Million to Bioengineering Institute

The philanthropist makes a fourth gift to support basic and translational research.

by John S. Rosenberg

Ben S. Bernanke ’75 Shares Economics Nobel

Three scholars honored for work on banking and financial crises.

by John S. Rosenberg

Apollo 17 Turns 50

Two Harvard alumni recall a return from the last human moonwalk.

by Lydialyle Gibson

The Irresistible Allison Feaster

A basketball star's journey from the Harvard hardwood to the Celtics front office

by Lydialyle Gibson

George Reisner

Brief life of a pioneering Egyptologist: 1867-1942

by Peter Der Manuelian