Alumni

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

Jack Reardon and Walter Cabot, Remembered

Plus, veteran higher education leader Thomas Ehrlich reflects on university curricula for his 70th reunion

by Primus VI

Composer Ashley Fure unleashes her visceral opera “The Force of Things”

Composer Ashley Fure wants people to listen to noise.

by Jennifer Gersten

Athlete Activism and Harvard Men's Basketball

Sociologist Harry Edwards and broadcaster James Brown weigh protest and progress in sports, and in Harvard basketball.

by David L. Tannenwald

Freshman year, 10 years out

A graduate reflects on history—personal and otherwise.

by Adam Goodheart

Nuclear War in Korea? Eggs and Taxes More Urgent

Living calmly next to a rogue nuclear state

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

Alec Karakatsanis fights for criminal-justice reform in the U.S. legal system

Alec Karakatsanis puts “human caging” and “wealth-based detention” in America on trial.

by Michael Zuckerman

A Life of Adventure and Delight

Akhil Sharma is less interested in ideology in itself than in politics as a backdrop to emotional conflict.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society members forge a lasting bond

Fifty years after they sang their way around the globe as undergraduates, they returned to Cambridge with full hearts and voices. 

by Lydialyle Gibson

Polaroid photographer and "The B-Side" subject Elsa Dorfman, profiled

Elsa Dorfman, BI ’73, looks back on her photography.

by Sophia Nguyen

Brief life of Carl Thorne-Thomsen, Vietnam veteran from Harvard

Brief life of a man of principle: 1946-1967

by Bonnie Docherty

Songwriter and Semisonic frontman Dan Wilson reclaims his hits on "Re-Covered"

The Grammy Award-winning songwriter Dan Wilson reclaims his catalog.

by Max Suechting