Students & Alumni

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

Highlighting Harvard Magazine’s Fellows

The 2025-2026 Ledecky and Summer Undergraduate Fellows

Where We Went Wrong

A sweeping history of society and the economy in the twentieth century

NFL Referee Ron Torbert Makes the Tough Calls

A Harvard Law alum puts his degree to work on the field.

by Craig Lambert

HAA Clubs and SIGs awards

Honoring the providers of exemplary service and exceptional programming

2022 HAA Award Winners

For outstanding service

Leaning into Winter

Exploring Burlington, Vermont

by Nell Porter-Brown

Three Alumni Named as National Book Award Finalists

An historian, a poet, and a translator

by Lydialyle Gibson

Two Harvard Affiliates Share Chemistry Nobel

Recognized for advances in functional chemistry

by John S. Rosenberg

Justice Elena Kagan, in Dissent

Ebbing trust in the Supreme Court, and what to do about it  

by Lincoln Caplan

Human and Machine Intelligence

Launching Harvard’s Kempner Institute

by Jonathan Shaw

“My Time in the Paint”

An athlete contends with injury and identity.

by Rachel Levy