Students & Alumni

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

a couple sitting at a park overlooking the ocean

Harvard Squared | July-August 2025

No More [Lovin’ That] Dirty Water

Enjoying the Boston Harbor’s Renaissance This Summer

by Nell Porter-Brown

Federal Hill in Providence, Rhode Island, today, with its Roman Catholic churches

Montage | July-August 2014

Rhode Island Blues

Fiction that paints a regional subculture with “merciless realism.”

by Craig Lambert

Features | July-August 2014

Disruptive Genius

Innovation guru Clayton Christensen on spreading his gospel, the Gospel, and how to win with the electric car

by Craig Lambert

In his Cambridge studio, Childs makes about six violins a year.

Montage | May-June 2014

Raw Wood Sings

Bob Childs makes world-class violins.

by Laura Levis

Lissa Young fosters open discussions about love and sexuality during a psychology class for freshmen cadets at West Point.

Alumni | May-June 2014

Duty Calls

An alumna chooses “the harder right.”

by Nell Porter-Brown

Justin Kaplan at home

Students & Alumni |

Biographer and Booklover Justin Kaplan: 1925-2014

In tribute to an old friend

The plate-glass windows in Avis Buchanan’s downtown Washington, D.C., office neatly frame the U.S. Archives building. “It’s the repository of our Constitution," she says. "The Sixth Amendment gives us our existence and we use the Fourth and Fifth and Sixth in our fight on behalf of our clients every day.”

Alumni | March-April 2014

Shades of Justice

A profile of Avis Buchanan, director of the D.C. Public Defender Service

by Nell Porter-Brown

Moulton (at right) leads a mission in Najaf.

Alumni | March-April 2014

Citizen Soldier

A profile of former Marine Seth Moulton ’01, M.B.A.-M.P.P. ’11

by Michael Zuckerman

Murray in 1962

Features | March-April 2014

Vita: Henry A. Murray

Brief life of a personality psychologist: 1893-1988

by Marshall J. Getz

The Schachters with children they have helped in Chennai

Alumni | January-February 2014

Caring for Children in Chennai

An ’09 couple, Michael and Allie Schachter, help child victims of human trafficking in India.

by Nu Xiong

Claudia Bedrick displays one of Enchanted Lion’s books.

Alumni | January-February 2014

Picture-book Publisher

Claudia Bedrick ’85 of Enchanted Lion Books offers an international array of stories to young children.

by Kristen Strezo