Students & Alumni

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

Harvard Retains Winthrop Name

Committee undecided on whether owning slaves merits denaming

by Max J. Krupnick

Finding Other Streets

Photographer Mark Erickson on the Vietnam he never knew

by Dan Kelly

“To Break Our Own Rules”

Poet-critic Dan Chiasson and The Math Campers

by Lydialyle Gibson

In a Farmer’s Long Beard

Miriam Udel’s passion for children and Yiddish children’s literature

The Sports Critic

Louisa Thomas takes a different view.

by Jacob Sweet

Alumni Interviewer Honors

The College Admissions Office’s 2020 Miller-Hunn Award winners

At Home with Harvard: Sounds of Music

A selection of our stories on musicians, composers, conductors, music scholars, and more 

At Home with Harvard: Remarkable Alumni

Some Harvard matriculants really took the road less traveled. 

Off the Ice, Onto the Screen

Bill Keenan ’09 brings his first book onto the screen. 

by Gary Santaniello

Insurgent Election

Harvard Forward divestment advocates win three Board of Overseers seats—and other results from alumni voting.

by John S. Rosenberg

Museums, Making Their Way

Pandemic perspectives from the Getty and the Harvard Art Museums—and art’s role in refreshing “the dialogue with other human beings”

by Caroline Engelmayer