Students & Alumni

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

Harvard’s Hiring Freeze Continues

University leaders say $1 billion per year is at risk due to federal actions

by Vivian W. Rong

At Home with Harvard: Harvard in the World

Harvard Magazine’s coverage of the University’s expanding global reach

At Home with Harvard: The Immigrant Experience

A selection of Harvard Magazine's writing on immigration, displacement, and the global refugee crisis

Calhoun-Fall

The rise and fall of Charleston’s John C. Calhoun statue, a monument to white supremacy 

by Peter H. Wood

At Home with Harvard: Inequality in America

Selections from Harvard Magazine’s extensive coverage of wealth and income inequality 

How Harvard Handled the 1918 Flu Pandemic

Fall semester interrupted, a century ago

by Matteo Wong

How the Lines Get Bent

Curator Garrett Dash Nelson ’09 on the Boston Public Library’s exhibition of “persuasive cartography” 

by Matteo Wong

At Home with Harvard: Pride Month

Stories on LGBTQ life, research, and history at Harvard

Centennial Medalists

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences’ honorands

The Coronavirus Spring

Campus and Commencement without people, social distance, Dr. Fauci, and a meaningful password

by Primus VI

“Theater Is Church”

Playwright Katori Hall on the joy—and trauma—of black life

by Stuart Miller