Alumni

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

Harvard Professor Michael Sandel Wins Philosophy’s Berggruen Prize

The creator of the popular ‘Justice’ course receives a $1 million award.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Death penalty critiqued by Carol and Jordan Steiker

Sibling scholars Carol Steiker and Jordan Steiker seek to change how America thinks about capital punishment.

by Lincoln Caplan

D.J. and experimental composer Jace Clayton discusses his new book, Uproot.

In Uproot, Jace Clayton ’97 explores technological trends in music around the globe.

by Lara Pellegrinelli

Plans to reform Board of Overseers’ election procedures

Plans to overhaul the Board of Overseers’ election procedures 

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard alumni are honored for admissions work.

Seven alumni are honored for volunteer College admissions work.

John Adams as a Harvard student, by Richard Alan Ryerson

What he learned and what he made of it

by Richard Alan Ryerson

Harvardians awarded National Humanities Medals and National Book nominations

Last week, three Harvard affiliates were awarded the National Humanities Medal and eight were long-listed for the National Book Awards.

by Sophia Nguyen

Harvard Overseer Election Reforms

Moves to online voting—but raises threshold to petition for a place on the ballot.

by John S. Rosenberg

Paul Zeitz established the math-focused Proof School in San Francisco

A private San Francisco middle school and high school nurture a passion for numbers.

by Violet Baron

Brief life of George Bucknam Dorr, a founder of Acadia National Park

Brief life of a persistent conservationist: 1853-1944

by Steven Pavlos Holmes

Radcliffe alumna Judith Brodsky, on printmaking and risk-taking

From the beginning, artist and advocate Judith Brodsky felt “pulls in different directions.”

by Violet Baron