Students & Alumni
Features on student life and alumni journeys, capturing the spirit, impact, and diversity of the Harvard community.
Harvard Layoffs Continue, with More to Come
In the wake of federal government actions, several Harvard schools and institutes are cutting costs.
by Jonathan Shaw
From Punk to the Silver Screen
The ingenious, intuitive film scores of Carter Burwell ’77
by Nicolas Rapold
War, Misremembered
Elizabeth Samet, of West Point, reinterprets the American understanding of World War II.
Border Crossing
Author Rudy Ruiz carries on his Mexican-American family’s storytelling tradition.
by Nancy Walecki
A Democracy of Opportunity
Liberals must learn from conservatives how to interpret the Constitution in all its dimensions.
by Lincoln Caplan
Notes on Doctoring
Michael Stanley and the covenant of medicine
by Lydialyle Gibson
Life After Brain Injury
Alumna Carolyn Gold on finding a “new self” after West Nile encephalitis
by Lydialyle Gibson
Edgar James Banks
Brief life of an entrepreneurial archaeologist: 1866-1945
by Nancy Freudenthal
The Food Waste Problem
Emily Broad Leib combats wasted food worldwide.
by Jacob Sweet
The Art of the Portrait Painter
Jason Bouldin makes the intangible tangible.
by Lydialyle Gibson
How Myth and Memoir Intertwine
Elisabeth Sharp McKetta ’01 finds truth in the border between fact and fiction.
by Juliet Isselbacher