Alumni
Explore Harvard alumni stories, news, and achievements—covering reunions, profiles, and the global impact of Harvard graduates.
Harvard Elects New Overseers, HAA Directors
Leaders for the governing board and alumni association were chosen by an alumni vote.
Harvard alumni leaders honored for volunteer work
Harvard Alumni Association awards honor volunteer service to the University.
Harvard Alumnus Recalls World War II
A member of the class of 1946 on the horrors, and humor, of World War II.
by Primus VI
George Bucknam Dorr
A brief life of a persistent conservationist and founder of Acadia National Park
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
"The biggest mystery": Nicholas Britell, on scoring "Big Short," "Seventh Fire"
A film composer's career, from annotating Sneakers to doing “archaeology” for 12 Years a Slave
Pranks in Pusey Library
A retrospective on the Lampoon’s 140 years of mischief
Harvard researchers find evidence of China's Great Flood
Researchers unearth geological evidence to support one of the country’s earliest folk legends.
Novelist Colson Whitehead, profiled by Jesse McCarthy
Colson Whitehead ’91 plays for higher stakes in his new novel.
Teaching Children to Care
Dina Buchbinder Auron, M.P.A. ’16, uses sports to get children excited about solving global problems.
Justin Cronin ’84’s “The City of Mirrors”
Thanks to Harvard, according to a new fantasy epic by Justin Cronin ’84