Students & Alumni

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

Harvard’s Hiring Freeze Continues

University Leaders Say $1 Billion Per Year Is At Risk Due to Federal Actions

by Vivian W. Rong

The Arts as Essential Goods

A prescient novelist is hopeful that “after great change, amazing things can happen.”

by Nell Porter-Brown

Harvard Cambridge Scholars

Headed to the other Cambridge  

Harvard Medalists

For extraordinary service to the University

Centennial Medalists

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences’ honorands

The Coronavirus Spring

Campus and Commencement without people, social distance, Dr. Fauci, and a meaningful password

by Primus VI

Life After Harvard: The Pains and Pleasures of Alumni Reunions

How Harvard reunions are cast in Ceridwen Dovey’s Life After Truth

by Nell Porter-Brown

Transforming Portraiture and the World

Alumnus-commissioned paintings of global luminaries are now a landmark gift to the National Portrait Gallery.

by Julia Ostmann

At Home with Harvard: Great Legal Minds

Our favorite stories on the legal minds reshaping American law

At Home with Harvard: Harvard on the Small Screen

Discover a new series to watch in quarantine, or read about the creator behind your favorite show, in this selection of our TV stories

A Second Pulitzer for Colson Whitehead

The Nickel Boys wins the 2020 prize for fiction.