Students & Alumni
Features on student life and alumni journeys, capturing the spirit, impact, and diversity of the Harvard community.
Harvard President Alan Garber Helps First-Years Move In
As a potential settlement with the Trump administration looms, Garber gets students settled.
A Yodel for Help in the Modern World
Playwright Christopher Durang, a “native American absurdist,” writes black comedies that turn painful events into hilarity.
Fernando Zóbel de Ayala
A brief profile of the peripatetic painter and philanthropist
by John Seed
Harvard Portrait - John Briscoe
John Briscoe will reestablish an engineering program at Harvard focused on water.
Turning Green into Gold
H. Jeffrey Leonard invests in green energy around the globe.
Tax Tutors
Robert Burke’s nonprofit Ladder Up offers tax help and financial advice to the working poor.
A Death in the Harvard Family: John Updike ’54, Litt.D. ’92
Noted author John Updike ’54, Litt.D. ’92, died of lung cancer on January 27 at the age of 76.
Inaugural Addresses Then and Now
An archival look at presidential inaugural talks, and a contemporary, amusing historian's take on the often-clunky, but increasingly populist, first-day rhetoric.
Barney Frank: "The Most Outspoken Man in the House"
Jeffrey Toobin profiles Congressman Barney Frank, the most important figure in the House of Representatives involved in legislating solutions to the financial crisis.
Obama's Daunting International Agenda
Journalist David E. Sanger's new book outlines the huge international security challenges facing the new administration.
A Record-Breaker Passes
Farewell to Walter Seward, Harvard's longest-lived alumnus