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
Nieman Fellow Eliza Griswold Wins Pulitzer Prize
Her book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America is the choice in general nonfiction.
by Jacob Sweet
The SIGnboard: Reunion Week Events
Shared Interest Group gatherings in Cambridge
“Doctor Bugs”
Naturalist Mark W. Moffett investigates insects—and now, evolving human societies.
by Nell Porter-Brown
Overseer and HAA Director Candidates
The official 2019 slates
The Director’s Half-Decade
The HAA’s Philip Lovejoy looks ahead
by Nell Porter-Brown
Jason Luke
Harvard’s behind-the-scenes Commencement hero
by Jacob Sweet
The Physician-Poet
Rafael Campo’s compassionate care
by Lydialyle Gibson
Harry Elkins Widener
Brief life of Harry Elkins Widener, theater-loving bibliophile: 1885-1912
by Daniel Blank
America’s Great Modern Justice
A new biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. illuminates the Supreme Court during the centennial of his most momentous dissent.
by Lincoln Caplan
Weekend Rock Stars
For two Harvard siblings, studying and songwriting went hand in hand.
by Jacob Sweet