Alumni

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

Harvard Alumni Win Two 2026 Nobel Prizes

Karl Deisseroth revolutionized neuroscience. Navanethem “Navi” Pillay has adjudicated cases in international courts concerning genocide.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Harvard researcher Erica Walker combats urban noise

Erica Walker aims to put “tools and data into the hands of people who can use it.”

by Nell Porter-Brown

HAA Honors Alumni Clubs and SIGs for 2018

A celebration of significant alumni and shared interest groups

“Gorey’s World” at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Edward Gorey’s own art collection at the Wadsworth Atheneum

by Nell Porter-Brown

Benjamin Franklin’s Retirement and Reinvention

Two hundred and seventy years ago, Benjamin Franklin did something highly unusual. He retired.

by William N. Thor...

Bryan Stevenson on the Evolution of White Supremacy

“I don’t think slavery ended in 1865 —I think it just evolved. I think it turned into decades of terrorism and violence and lynching.”

by Lydialyle Gibson

Brief life of Henry Chapman Mercer, innovative ceramicist

Brief life of an innovative ceramicist: 1856-1930  

by Nancy Freudenthal

Critic and poet Fred Moten, profiled by Jesse McCarthy

Fred Moten’s subversive black-studies scholarship

by Jesse McCarthy

Excerpt from “Off the Charts,” by Ann Hulbert

Parents and superkids, then and now  

by Ann Hulbert