Students & Alumni
Features on student life and alumni journeys, capturing the spirit, impact, and diversity of the Harvard community.
The Outsiders’ Insider
Turning the Black List into a business, to modernize Hollywood’s dream machine
by Sophia Nguyen
Teach a Man to Fish
How Gloucester’s Russell Sherman got hooked
by Nell Porter-Brown
Potholes, Pensions, and Politics
Houston’s new mayor, HLS alumnus Sylvester Turner, promises a “transformative” tenure.
by Michael Hardy
Champ Lyons
Brief life of an innovative surgeon: 1907-1965
by Martin L. Dalton , Laurence A. Lyons
Mexico Debates Marijuana
A new lead on stemming drug-related violence in Mexico
by Lydialyle Gibson
Encouraging Esperanto
Ruth Kevess-Cohen ’78 is boosting the international language online.
by Olivia Campbell
Parachute Specialist
Job counselor Dick Bolles ’50 keeps “chugging away.”
by Bailey Trela
Rhetoric and Law
The double life of Richard Posner, America’s most contentious legal reformer
by Lincoln Caplan
Street Doctor
James O’Connell has spent 30 years caring for the homeless.
Chronicler of Two Americas
Now in his second century, the uncommon Daniel Aaron remains at work.
by Christoph Irmscher