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.

by Olivia Farrar

Cape Town Conference

A Harvard Alumni Association global conference in South Africa

Well Done

Recipients of the 2008 Harvard Alumni Association Awards

Alex Ross Wins MacArthur

Music critic Alex Ross ’90 has just been named a MacArthur Fellow for his encyclopedic first book...

Tiktaalik Resurfaces

In today’s New York Times, science writer John Noble Wilford reports on new findings (to be published tomorrow in the journal Nature) about Tiktaalik roseae, a fossil fish that...

The Mailer-Buckley Connection

The late Norman Mailer ’43, a prolific and pugnacious author, apparently wrote a lot of letters to go with his many published works—some 50,000 letters archived by Michael Lennon, according to The New Yorker...

Fighting the Illegal Logging Trade

Alexander von Bismarck ’94 (’02)—one of the Bismarcks, great-great-grandnephew of Otto von Bismarck—has been working undercover, at no small risk, trying to counter the enormous worldwide trade in illegal logging and timber smuggling...

Tall Tales

Arianne Cohen ’03—a onetime Harvard Magazine Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow— is publishing a second book—The Tall Book: A Celebration of Life on High, which promises "a fascinating and informative look into the world of tall people"...

Hiram Hunn Awards

Six alumni will receive this year’s Hiram S. Hunn Memorial Schools and Scholarships Awards...

A Tale of Two Detectives

Lauren Mechling writes in the thriving young-adult genre.

by Paul Gleason

Going Once…Going Twice…Sold!

New England’s auctions thrive

by Nell Porter-Brown