Alumni

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

The Tragic Wartime Life of a Promising Black Harvard Scholar

A new book sheds light on Reed Peggram.

by Ethelene Whitmire

Your Money, or Your Life?

The promise of a more fulfilling approach to personal finance: George Kinder, author of Seven Stages of Money Maturity, explains how financial planning is an emotional process...

by Nell Porter-Brown

Sleuths in Love

Screenwriter turned novelist Eric Lerner ’71 finds his voice...

by Craig Lambert

Underground Party

Commuters making their way through the underground corridors of the sprawling Times Square subway station in Manhattan now have some...

Solar Sculptor

Michael Kapetan’s sundials don’t do “clock time”...

by Cara Feinberg

George Bancroft

Brief life of a public historian: 1800-1891...

Fishing for Answers

Photograph by Ralf-Finn Hestoft Neil Shubin and Tiktaalik In 2005, parents and school officials in Dover, Pennsylvania, were locked in a...

by Nell Porter-Brown

Identity Seeker

Sergio Troncoso ’83 showed up in Cambridge in 1979 with a suitcase full of T-shirts brought from his hometown on the Texas-Mexico border...

by Liz Goodwin

Rebuilding Churches

In college, Tim McCarthy ’93 was deeply involved in public service—as a Big Brother and head of the Freshman Urban Program steering...

Harvard's Hillary Look-alike

Professional actress Heidi Dallin ’85 has been getting lots of work lately, thanks to her marked resemblance to Hillary Clinton...

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.