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

Brief life of Carl Thorne-Thomsen, Vietnam veteran from Harvard

Brief life of a man of principle: 1946-1967

by Bonnie Docherty

Songwriter and Semisonic frontman Dan Wilson reclaims his hits on "Re-Covered"

The Grammy Award-winning songwriter Dan Wilson reclaims his catalog.

by Max Suechting

Alison Carey, on directing the American Revolutions cycle at the OSF

Historical plays for a nation “stuck in the middle”

by Lydialyle Gibson

Malka Older’s global sci-fi

Sci-fi meets the political thriller.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Recent books with Harvard connections

John Kenneth Galbraith’s letters, Linda Greenhouse, color in art, and more

Harvard alumnus James Coe is a Hudson Valley painter and bird artist

Landscape and bird artist James Coe reflects the Hudson Valley

by Nell Porter-Brown

HAA's new president Susan Morris Novick

Harvard’s new alumni leader touts its global reach.

by Nell Porter-Brown

With Friends Like These

The real tragedy underlying Friends from College stems from the indignities of the post-recession economy.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Library of Congress names Harvard alumna Tracy K. Smith as new Poet Laureate

The announcement comes at a busy time for the writer, who is at work on two operas and will soon publish her fifth verse collection, Wade in the Water.

by Sophia Nguyen

Fred Glimp, a Harvard legend, dies at 91

The long-serving dean and vice president was a proud member of the College’s “Great Middle Class.”