Alumni

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

Harvard Law School Announces $31.4 Million Donation

The school’s largest-ever gift comes after a year of record fundraising.

by Jonathan Shaw

Raising Her Voice

Singer-songwriter Reid Parsons on the irreplaceable instrument

by Lydialyle Gibson

The “Harvard Novel” Enters the Twenty-first Century

On Elif Batuman’s fictions

by Beth Blum

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

Straight Lines and Odd Angles

Painter Judith Seligson’s creative juxtapositions

by Lydialyle Gibson

Celeste Ng debuts new novel

“Our Missing Hearts” embodies the author’s hope that storytelling can be an agent of change.

by Nancy Walecki

Where We Went Wrong

A sweeping history of society and the economy in the twentieth century