Students & Alumni

Salvador Litvak smiles, arms crossed, in a vest and hat on a city street.

Montage | May-June 2025

Faith through Film

The “Accidental Talmudist” on making Jewish movies

by Max J. Krupnick

Amir Bitran

Montage | September-October 2023

Making Music Out of DNA Loops

Composer and biophysicist Amir Bitran ’16, Ph.D. ’23

by Nancy Walecki

Portrait of editors Rebecca Panovka and Kiara Barrow

University People | September-October 2023

The New Little Magazines

Keeping literature and long-form journalism alive

by Nancy Walecki

Screenshot of Tracy Kidder, Jim O'Connell, and Shira Simon

Alumni Profiles |

Treating Boston’s “Rough Sleepers”

Tracy Kidder and physician Jim O’Connell discuss health care for the homeless.

by Ryan Doan-Nguyen

Balcetis smiling and holding the NBA championship trophy, with his arm around his wife

Sports & Athletics |

Harvard’s NBA Champion

Denver Nuggets assistant general manager Tommy Balcetis ’10 

by David L. Tannenwald

Gram Parsons stands in front of a bus in Harvard Square

Features | July-August 2023

Sound as Ever

Gram Parsons and Harvard’s hand in country rock

by Nancy Walecki

Ursula Bailey working in a Harvard geology laboratory, 1945

Features | July-August 2023

Trailblazer in Space Science: The Legacy of Harvard's Ursula B. Marvin

Brief life of a pioneering planetary geologist: 1921-2018

by David A. Kring

A live sketch from Lori Vallow Daybell’s murder trial. Daybell is in the middle between two men, all looking somber.

Montage | July-August 2023

Something from Nothing

Painter, animator, illustrator, and silhouettist Susan Bin

by Max J. Krupnick

A formal portrait or José Olivarez in a gold chain and velvet suit jacket, standing amid red drapes and palm plants.

Montage | July-August 2023

For the Homies

In José Olivarez’s poetry, the political is personal.

by Josie Abugov

Montage | July-August 2023

Impatience Is a Virtue

Violinist-multitasker Sumire Hirotsuru

by Jacob Sweet

Portrait image of Walter Kim standing on a street with arms folded across his chest

University People | July-August 2023

A New Face of American Evangelicalism

Walter Kim aims for “a way forward even within difference.”

by Nell Porter-Brown