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

At Home with Harvard: The Real History of Women at Harvard

A selection of stories covering the admission of women, the Harvard-Radcliffe merger, the rise of women in the faculty ranks, Harvard’s first woman president, and more

A Love Letter

John Alexander follows the ups and downs of funk musician Rudy Love.

by Alex Huls

The Fiction of Limbo

Novelist Paul Yoon explores Laos’s forgotten war.

by Bailey Trela

Setting the Stage

Joshua McTaggart leads London’s Chelsea Theatre into a new era.

by Olivia Munk

The “Messy Experiment”

From “women’s confinement” to “women’s liberation” at the Radcliffe Institute

by Susan Ware

The Hollowing Out

Americans diminished by “social poverty”

by Allison Pugh

The Early Bird

A quest to chronicle New York City’s avian community

by Nell Porter-Brown

Conferring Degrees, 2020

Harvard’s 369th Commencement goes virtual.

Overseers Election Update: Voting Postponed

The coronavirus pandemic threatened to disenfranchise alumni balloting.

by John S. Rosenberg