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

See you. A much-admired pair of legs and shoes disappear into a window above the shops on Haight Street, San Francisco. The Reichardts have seen it all.

Baez, Dylan, and more vignettes from Harvard’s class of 1964

Baez, Dylan, and more vignettes from Harvard’s class of 1964

A grinning Staropoli celebrates after winning the NAPA Auto Parts 150 in Irwindale, California, last year.

Racer Patrick Staropoli strives for Nascar

A Harvard summa aims for NASCAR.

by Steve Potter

Plan for the new rear entry—a key to rationalizing the club’s interior spaces and use

The Harvard Club of Boston undergoes renovations.

The Harvard Club of Boston undergoes renovations.

Joan Kane on King Island

To poet Joan Naviyuk Kane ’00, abandoned King Island is a potent creative source

For Joan Naviyuk Kane ’00, an abandoned island is a potent creative source.

by Melanie Wang

Research Query: LSD Testing in the 1950s

A researcher hopes to contact volunteer participants in “truth sera” experiments.

Harvard Latin American Alumni and Friends: Snapshot of a SIG

Harvard Latin American Alumni and Friends

Class notes and obituaries for January-February 2015

Harvard alumni may sign in to view class notes and obituaries.

A seven-drawer desk (detail)

Anthony Giachetti makes wood furniture an art form

Anthony Giachetti’s furniture is both functional and timeless.

Crisis of American neoliberal capitalism

A critique of the neoliberal economy

Amy Wilentz

"Farewell, Fred Voodoo" by Amy Wilentz continues her long coverage of Haiti

Amy Wilentz on her “touchstone and central obsession”

by Craig Lambert