Alumni

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

Front page of The Harvard Bulletin from November 7, 1898, featuring the headline “Harvard Wins” about a football victory over Pennsylvania and articles on Harvard graduates’ service in the Spanish-American War

A History of Harvard Magazine

Harvard’s independent alumni magazine—at 127 years old 

by Olivia Farrar

Photograph of Harvard Forward candidates Jayson Toweh and Thea Sebastian

How a Young Alumni Movement Wants to Change Harvard’s Investment Policies

An emerging, expansive view of socially responsive endowment investments

by John S. Rosenberg

Cover of first-generation alumni report

Harvard First-Generation Student Alumni Stories

Alumni share their moving stories through the first interest-group “class report.”

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard University shield

Harvard Board of Overseers Divestment, Governance Challenge

Young alumni and others advance an agenda of governance change and divestment from fossil-fuel investments.

Photograph of University Hall, where the Faculty of Arts and Sciences meets

Harvard Faculty Divestment Debate

A formal, docketed discussion as proponents of divestment intensify their campaign 

by John S. Rosenberg

Paul Lee (left) holds the Little Red Flag replica in 2012. Also shown (clockwise from top left) are Spencer Ervin, Jeffrey Lee, and Stephen Goodhue.

Who has attended the most Harvard-Yale Games?

Who’ll carry the traditionalists’ Little Red Flag?

2019 HAA Award Recipients

For outstanding service to the University

Painting of Amos A. Lawrence, 1887, by Eastman Johnson.

Expansive CVs, and extracurricular insights

Expansive CVs, and extracurricular insights

by Primus VI

William Monroe Trotter (first row, fifth from right) with other leaders of the Liberty League, circa 1920

William Monroe Trotter

Brief life of a black radical: 1872-1934

by Kerri K. Greenidge

Photograph of A.O. Scott at the Quad Cinema, New York City.

NYT movie critic A.O. Scott profiled by Craig Lambert

A.O. Scott on watching and reviewing a lot of movies

by Craig Lambert

A magician and comedian doing a card trick with an audience member

Profile of comedian-magician Harrison Greenbaum

For Harrison Greenbaum, it began with “Pick a card….”

by Lydialyle Gibson