Students & Alumni

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

Will Makris in blue checkered suit and red patterned tie standing outdoors by stone column.

A New HAA President at a Tumultuous Time

A career in higher ed inspired Will Makris to give back.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Harvard students in caps and gowns

Commencement and Alumni Events 2023

Speakers, ceremonies, and celebrations

The Near Eastern languages and civilizations building on Divinity Avenue

Albanian Joins the Language Curriculum

Harvard is the only Ivy League institution to offer the rare European language.

by Suzana Vuljevic

John Hume, Ted Kennedy, Tip O'Neill

Hume, Heaney, Harvard—and Peace in Northern Ireland

In life and literature, living “dangerously out between” opposing factions while seeking common ground

by Marilynn Richtarik

Collage of participants in a panel discussion at Harvard Kennedy School

Improving Accessibility

A Harvard Kennedy School panel raises unnoticed policy issues.

by Max J. Krupnick

Illustration of Emily Dickinson talking to tech support

Emily Dickinson—Dashed

Alexandra Petri introduces the poet to tech support for help with her keyboard.

Alejandro Montagna standing in front of a small airplane wearing a wingsuit

Flying Squirrel

Wingsuit skydiver Alejandro Montagna on minimizing risk—at 150 mph

by Nancy Walecki

Harvard Business School logo on a campus cornhole board

Over the River Dept.

Cornhole at HBS, prayer and meditation at SEAS, minerologist’s meter, eclipse aficionado

by Primus VI

Digital reconstruction of two medieval tiles

Medieval Disinformation?

A Worcester exhibit links politics and visual culture.

by Nell Porter-Brown

2023 Candidates for Overseers and HAA Elected Directors

The nominated slates for this spring’s balloting

Portrait of Harvard Alumni Association executive director Sarah Karmon

Sarah Karmon in “listening mode”

Harvard Alumni Association’s new executive director

by Nell Porter-Brown