Students & Alumni

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

No More [Lovin’ That] Dirty Water

Enjoying the Boston Harbor’s Renaissance This Summer

by Nell Porter-Brown

Dual Dean

A look at James Bundy ’81, dean of the Yale School of Drama

by Sophia Nguyen

A Workable Democracy

The optimistic project of Justice Stephen Breyer

by Lincoln Caplan

Reel Revolution

How Black Journal raised the country's consciousness, and opened Kent Garrett's eyes to television's potential

by Sophia Nguyen

Harmonic Progression

Composer Robert Kyr embraces love, peace, and nature.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Labor Litigator

Attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan takes on the app economy.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Quiet, Please

Susan Cain foments the “Quiet Revolution.”

by Lydialyle Gibson

Henry Knowles Beecher

Brief life of a late-blooming ethicist: 1904-1976

by Jack El-Hai

The Lawyer Librettist

In the “final phase” of her life, Cerise Lim Jacobs builds herself an oeuvre.

by Sophia Nguyen

The Happy Misanthrope

A playwright making those overlooked by history into lore

by Olivia Schwob

Reports from the “New America”

Latino-American journalist Julio Ricardo Varela

by Nell Porter-Brown