Students & Alumni

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

Letters from Readers About Harvard’s Standoff with the Trump Administration

Harvard Magazine readers respond to Harvard’s standoff with the Trump administration.

by Jonathan Shaw

A Harvard Startup on Shark Tank

How a Business School graduate uses AI to preserve family history

by Olivia Farrar

Surgeon Atul Gawande Named Harvard Alumni Day Speaker

Writer, public health leader will address alumni on June 6

by Max J. Krupnick

The Office for the Arts Turns 50

A birthday party with song, dance, and speech

by Max J. Krupnick

Remembering John Corcoran ’84

An active life cut short

by Max J. Krupnick

Harvard Alumni Association President Bob Bowie Jr.

An admissions odyssey, the search for “Casey,” and a Harvard legislative legacy

by Primus VI

Defeating the Darkness

After decades of mystery, a family reunion

by Brian Palmer

Music and Medicine

Toussaint Miller explores the healing power of art.


by Lydialyle Gibson

Harvard University’s 373rd Commencement Excercises

Commencement and Alumni Day schedules

The Supreme Court and Mass Incarceration

A legal scholar’s harsh assessment of the Supreme Court’s rulings on crime

by Lincoln Caplan

Works by Archaic Greek Poets Set to Music

Millennia-old Greek lyrics ring out again in twenty-first-century pop music.

by Craig Lambert