Students & Alumni

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

Harvard Adopts Reforms as Higher Ed Turmoil Continues

University creates new “interfaith engagement” role; Columbia, Brown settle with the government.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Recent books with Harvard connections

Recent books cover the origins of mambo, American economic growth, cancer, landscape, and more

Tania James’s dueling artistic impulses

A writer balances structure and spontaneity in her latest novel.

by Aria Thaker

Architect Anthony Acciavatti’s work mapping the Ganges River

A decade spent exploring India’s dynamic sacred river

by Nell Porter-Brown

Channeling Valentine’s Day—and sustainable oceans—via sexy sea creatures

Channeling Valentine’s Day—and sustainable oceans—via sexy sea creatures

The Dance Complex in Cambridge is poised to grow

A long-time Cambridge arts organization is poised to grow.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Judge Richard Posner, profiled by Lincoln Caplan

The double life of Richard Posner, America’s most contentious legal reformer

by Lincoln Caplan

James O’Connell of HMS and Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program

James O’Connell has spent 30 years caring for the homeless.

Linda Greenhouse of The New York Times lectures on journalism at Harvard

Linda Greenhouse on the tension between objectivity and engagement 

by Lydialyle Gibson

A grammar of pain: review of documentary "Of Men and War"

A new film about American veterans and the struggle to tell their stories through trauma therapy

by Jacqueline Feldman