Students & Alumni

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

people stand at a table that reads "Harvard College Dean of Students Office First-Year Orientation"

Harvard’s New Online Orientation Emphasizes Intellectual Paths

A summer course for first-years focuses on academic success, diverse viewpoints.

by Jonathan Shaw

Harvard Overseer and HAA director candidates for 2015

The slates for this spring’s elections

Jade nuzzles Cloos en route to getting his new shoes.

How a Harvard farrier spends her days

How a farrier spends her days

by Nell Porter-Brown

Student occupiers in University Hall, 1969

Photographer Tim Carlson focuses on athletes in nature

Photographer Tim Carlson focuses on athletes in nature.

by Steve Potter

Tracy K. Smith

Poet Tracy K. Smith's prose memoir, “Ordinary Light”

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith ’94 crafts a memoir.

Sarah Manguso

Sarah Manguso's Ongoingness asks, why write?

Dissecting her diary, a writer weaponizes solipsism.

by Sophia Nguyen

Algebra, a high-wire act for math phobics, is here rendered clearly, amusingly, and memorably.

Recent books with Harvard connections

Recent books with Harvard connections

Here lies an eager patriot.

“Love Story” locale, and other passionate pursuits

Love Story locale, and other passionate pursuits

Susanne Daniels and Amy Lippman discuss their careers in television.

Susanne Daniels and Amy Lippman discuss their careers in television

MTV's president of programming and the executive producer of Masters of Sex on their craft

by Laura Levis

2015 Overseer and HAA Director Nominees

The official candidate slates

Martha McSally, M.P.P. ’90, Republican of Arizona, who won her House race on December 17, became the fifth alumna elected to the 114th Congress.

Harvard alumni elected to the 114th Congress

Harvard’s GOP contingent expands in the new Congress.