Students & Alumni

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

International Scholars and Students Targeted—Again

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announces fresh investigation into Harvard’s participation in the Exchange Visitor Program.

by Jonathan Shaw

Soldiers, When Young

A member of the class of 1946 on the horrors, and humor, of World War II.

by Primus VI

George Bucknam Dorr

Brief life of a persistent conservationist: 1853-1944

by Steven Pavlos Holmes

Beauty from Disarray

From the beginning, artist and advocate Judith Brodsky felt “pulls in different directions.”

by Violet Baron

Supporting Cast

A film composer's career, from annotating Sneakers to doing “archaeology” for 12 Years a Slave

by Sophia Nguyen

Making a Bee Line

Thomas D. Seeley on the craft and science of bee hunting

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections

The Business of Lies

Joseph Finder makes technology the texture of his new thriller, Guilty Minds.

by Bailey Trela

Private Eye

Boston-based private investigator Sarah Alcorn is “a bit of an oddball in this business.”

by Nell Porter-Brown

Pranks in Pusey Library

A retrospective on the Lampoon’s 140 years of mischief

by Aidan Langston

China's Great Flood May Be No Myth

Researchers unearth geological evidence to support one of the country’s earliest folk legends.

by Lydialyle Gibson