Students & Alumni
Features on student life and alumni journeys, capturing the spirit, impact, and diversity of the Harvard community.
Highlighting Harvard Magazine’s Fellows
The 2025-2026 Ledecky and Summer Undergraduate Fellows
Behavioral “nudges” boost student performance
Interventions that mobilize family support networks have powerful effects.
Using precision medicine, Harvard researchers target cancer
Using precision medicine, Harvard researchers target cancer.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver and the Special Olympics
Brief life of a world-changer: 1921-2009
“Our Towns” highlights a positive force in American life
James ’70 and Deborah Fallows ’71 explore “what the hell is happening in America.”
The Bajau fishermen of Indonesia face lifestyle pressures.
In Indonesia, the Bajau fishermen’s way of life is under pressure.
by Lydialyle Gibson , David Hu
Revisiting Jack Lueders-Booth’s portrait series “Women Prisoners”
The portraits in Jack Lueders-Booth’s 40-year-old series feel even more vivid today.
“An Academic Life” by Hanna Holborn Gray reviewed
The former University of Chicago president and Harvard Corporation fellow crafts a timely memoir.
William Sellers boosts history
William Sellers aims to expose a new generation to America’s origins.
"I want one more shot!": profile of TV writer Nell Scovell
TV writer Nell Scovell looks back on Just the Funny Parts.
Richard T. Greener statue installed at University of South Carolina
The University of South Carolina recognizes its first African-American professor—Richard T. Greener, A.B. 1870.
by Jean Martin