Alumni

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

A historic building surrounded by green construction fencing and trees, under a blue sky.

Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences Faces a $350 Million Deficit

At a faculty meeting, Dean Hopi Hoekstra advocates for long-term, structural solutions.

by Joanna M Weiss

Celia Pym at work with a needle and thread

Damage and Repair

Textile artist Celia Pym knits meaning into mended clothes.

by Lydialyle Gibson

From Punk to the Silver Screen

The ingenious, intuitive film scores of Carter Burwell ’77

by Nicolas Rapold

World War II domestic propaganda posters urge civilian compliance with rationing

War, Misremembered

Elizabeth Samet, of West Point, reinterprets the American understanding of World War II.

Rudy Ruiz

Border Crossing

Author Rudy Ruiz carries on his Mexican-American family’s storytelling tradition.

by Nancy Walecki

Illustration showing U.S. flag pulled different directions by an oligarch and ordinary citizens

A Democracy of Opportunity

Liberals must learn from conservatives how to interpret the Constitution in all its dimensions.

by Lincoln Caplan

Notes on Doctoring

Michael Stanley and the covenant of medicine

by Lydialyle Gibson

Harvard alumni in their Commencement day finery preparing for the traditional alumni parade

Celebrating Alumni, Anew

Changes afoot for Harvard’s annual alumni meeting

Photo of Carolyn Gold and the cover of her book, When I Died

Life After Brain Injury

Alumna Carolyn Gold on finding a “new self” after West Nile encephalitis

by Lydialyle Gibson

Amy Goodman featured in her broadcast studio giving the peace sign

People-Powered Journalism

At Democracy Now! Amy Goodman goes “where the silence is.”

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Alumni Admissions Interviewers Honored

Miller-Hunn Awards