Students & Alumni
Features on student life and alumni journeys, capturing the spirit, impact, and diversity of the Harvard community.
Trump Administration Threatens Harvard’s Accreditation, Subpoenas Student Records
The federal government mounts pressure amid negotiations with Harvard.
by Nina Pasquini
Celebrating Alumni, Anew
Changes afoot for Harvard’s annual alumni meeting
Reporting, with an M.B.A.
Charles Duhigg unpacks how individuals and organizations work at war, on Wall Street, and in Silicon Valley
by Jonathan Shaw
The Poet of Old Age
Donald Hall, chronicler of life
by Adam Kirsch
Damage and Repair
Textile artist Celia Pym knits meaning into mended clothes.
by Lydialyle Gibson
From Punk to the Silver Screen
The ingenious, intuitive film scores of Carter Burwell ’77
by Nicolas Rapold
Life After Brain Injury
Alumna Carolyn Gold on finding a “new self” after West Nile encephalitis
by Lydialyle Gibson
Edgar James Banks
Brief life of an entrepreneurial archaeologist: 1866-1945
by Nancy Freudenthal
The Food Waste Problem
Emily Broad Leib combats wasted food worldwide.
by Jacob Sweet
The Art of the Portrait Painter
Jason Bouldin makes the intangible tangible.
by Lydialyle Gibson
How Myth and Memoir Intertwine
Elisabeth Sharp McKetta ’01 finds truth in the border between fact and fiction.
by Juliet Isselbacher