Students & Alumni
Features on student life and alumni journeys, capturing the spirit, impact, and diversity of the Harvard community.
Five Questions with Brian D. Farrell
A professor and curator of entomology on beetles, biodiversity, and evolutionary change
by Olivia Farrar
Harvard Medalists
For extraordinary service to the University
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
The Power of Unreason
Paul Moravec’s soulful music
by Lydialyle Gibson
Life After Harvard: The Pains and Pleasures of Alumni Reunions
How Harvard reunions are cast in Ceridwen Dovey’s Life After Truth
by Nell Porter-Brown
Transforming Portraiture and the World
Alumnus-commissioned paintings of global luminaries are now a landmark gift to the National Portrait Gallery.
by Julia Ostmann
At Home with Harvard: Great Legal Minds
Our favorite stories on the legal minds reshaping American law
At Home with Harvard: Harvard on the Small Screen
Discover a new series to watch in quarantine, or read about the creator behind your favorite show, in this selection of our TV stories
A Second Pulitzer for Colson Whitehead
The Nickel Boys wins the 2020 prize for fiction.