Students & Alumni

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

A New HAA President at a Tumultuous Time

A career in higher ed inspired Will Makris to give back.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Stephen J. Rapp seeks justice for Syrian victims of war crimes

Stephen J. Rapp seeks justice for Syrian victims of war crimes.

by Ben Beach

Remembering Towering Physicist Julian Schwinger (1918-1994)

At Jefferson Laboratory, Nobel Prize winners gather to remember one of their own.

by Jonathan Shaw

Symposium with Harvard alumni MLB executives

A Harvard-in-baseball symposium, just before spring training

by Lydialyle Gibson

Profile of photography curator Makeda Best

Focusing on the Harvard Art Museums’ new photography curator

by Sophia Nguyen

Development leader departs, undergraduate ed dean steps down, and more

Development leader departs, undergraduate ed dean steps down, and more

Alain Locke as activist aesthete

Rediscovering Alain Locke and the project of black self-realization

by Adam Kirsch

Brew’s clues: profile of Theresa McCulla, the Smithsonian's "beer historian"

A historian tracks the craft-beer boom, and the evolution of American taste.

by Bailey Trela

Harvard researcher Erica Walker combats urban noise

Erica Walker aims to put “tools and data into the hands of people who can use it.”

by Nell Porter-Brown

HAA Honors Alumni Clubs and SIGs for 2018

A celebration of significant alumni and shared interest groups