Students & Alumni

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

Your Views on Harvard’s Standoff, Antisemitism, and More

Readers comment on the controversial July-August cover, authoritarianism, and scientific research.

2022 HAA Award Winners

For outstanding service

Leaning into Winter

Exploring Burlington, Vermont

by Nell Porter-Brown

Apollo 17 Turns 50

Two Harvard alumni recall a return from the last human moonwalk.

by Lydialyle Gibson

The Irresistible Allison Feaster

A basketball star's journey from the Harvard hardwood to the Celtics front office

by Lydialyle Gibson

George Reisner

Brief life of a pioneering Egyptologist: 1867-1942

by Peter Der Manuelian

Three Alumni Named as National Book Award Finalists

An historian, a poet, and a translator

by Lydialyle Gibson

Two Harvard Affiliates Share Chemistry Nobel

Recognized for advances in functional chemistry

by John S. Rosenberg

Justice Elena Kagan, in Dissent

Ebbing trust in the Supreme Court, and what to do about it  

by Lincoln Caplan

Human and Machine Intelligence

Launching Harvard’s Kempner Institute

by Jonathan Shaw

“My Time in the Paint”

An athlete contends with injury and identity.

by Rachel Levy