Alumni

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

Jack Reardon and Walter Cabot, Remembered

In June, the Harvard community lost two titans who helped bring the University into the modern era. 

by Primus VI

Meet the Harvard Alumni Association’s New President

David Battat promotes alumni engagement.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Two Scientists Bring the Laboratory to the Stage

The play Spare Parts is a contemporary fable about the quest to live forever.

by Stuart Miller

How Facebook Escaped Harvard

In 2004, a frenzy spread across Harvard Yard in days. Four billion users later, we are only just catching up.

by Noam Cohen

A Harvard President’s VW Beetle That Kept On Giving

Derek Bok donated his car for a good cause.

by Nell Porter-Brown

A Harvard Choral Group Sings Again, 50 Years Later

The Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum reunites for a 50th anniversary tour around France.

by Olivia Farrar

Remembering Jack Reardon

He was Harvard’s quintessential people person.

by Jonathan Shaw

Matt Freese ’22 Makes His World Cup Debut

The former economics concentrator brings his talent for crunching numbers to netminding.

by Olivia Farrar

Harvard Alumni Win Big at 2026 Tony Awards

Graduates John Lithgow, Bill Rauch, and Bess Wohl took home prizes on Sunday night.

by Schuyler Velasco

The Harvard Doctor Who Made Kidney Transplants Possible

Nobel Prize recipient Joseph E. Murray dedicated much of his career to organ transplant surgery.

by Diane Speare Triant

What the ‘Other Face’ of the U.S.-Mexico Border Looks Like

Photographer and writer Morgan Smith chronicles life beyond the violence in Ciudad Juárez and other Mexican towns.

by Lydialyle Gibson