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

2018 Hiram Hunn Award winners

The admissions office honors alumni volunteers.

2018 Harvard Alumni Association Award winners

The 2018 Harvard Alumni Association Award winners

ClassACT HR73, a group effort for change

ClassACT HR73 rallies classmates to engage in social change.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Laura van den Berg and “The Third Hotel”

In Laura van den Berg’s fiction, the deeply strange is ordinary.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Ladders, Squirrels, and Reproductive Rights

A graduate’s foray into the “real world” of fringe theater

by Olivia Munk

Amelie Chai of SPiNE, an architect in Myanmar

Practicing architecture in Myanmar

by Sanya Sagar

Blake Family Ranch and Nursery

Working a cattle ranch and tree nursery in Big Sky country

by Nell Porter-Brown

Moorfield Storey, first president of the NAACP

Brief life of a patrician reformer: 1845-1929

by Geoffrey D. Austrian

Rage, reborn: profile of guitarist Tom Morello

With his supergroup Prophets of Rage, the musician faces down a president.

by Max Suechting

“Next steps”: profile of Paul Taylor dancer Madelyn Ho

Madelyn Ho pursued two tracks: modern dance, and getting her M.D.

by Samantha Maldonado