Students & Alumni

Features on student life and alumni journeys, capturing the spirit, impact, and diversity of the Harvard community.

12,000 Harvard Alumni File Amicus Brief in Funding Freeze Lawsuit

Alumni from every Harvard school and class since 1950 rally behind the University 

by Nina Pasquini

Harvard Forward Won’t Contest 2022 Overseers’ Election

A “pause” after winning four seats in recent elections

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard Articulates Principles for “Denaming”

Faust-led committee addresses building and professorship naming decisions “profoundly antithetical” to present values.

by John S. Rosenberg

War, Misremembered

Elizabeth Samet, of West Point, reinterprets the American understanding of World War II.

Border Crossing

Author Rudy Ruiz carries on his Mexican-American family’s storytelling tradition.

by Nancy Walecki

A Democracy of Opportunity

Liberals must learn from conservatives how to interpret the Constitution in all its dimensions.

by Lincoln Caplan

Notes on Doctoring

Michael Stanley and the covenant of medicine

by Lydialyle Gibson

Celebrating Alumni, Anew

Changes afoot for Harvard’s annual alumni meeting

Reporting, with an M.B.A.

Charles Duhigg unpacks how individuals and organizations work at war, on Wall Street, and in Silicon Valley

by Jonathan Shaw

The Poet of Old Age

Donald Hall, chronicler of life

by Adam Kirsch

Damage and Repair

Textile artist Celia Pym knits meaning into mended clothes.

by Lydialyle Gibson