Students & Alumni
Features on student life and alumni journeys, capturing the spirit, impact, and diversity of the Harvard community.
A New HAA President at a Tumultuous Time
A career in higher ed inspired Will Makris to give back.
Border Crossing
Author Rudy Ruiz carries on his Mexican-American family’s storytelling tradition.
A Democracy of Opportunity
Liberals must learn from conservatives how to interpret the Constitution in all its dimensions.
Notes on Doctoring
Michael Stanley and the covenant of medicine
Celebrating Alumni, Anew
Changes afoot for Harvard’s annual alumni meeting
Reporting, with an M.B.A.
Charles Duhigg unpacks how individuals and organizations work at war, on Wall Street, and in Silicon Valley
The Poet of Old Age
Donald Hall, chronicler of life
by Adam Kirsch
Damage and Repair
Textile artist Celia Pym knits meaning into mended clothes.
From Punk to the Silver Screen
The ingenious, intuitive film scores of Carter Burwell ’77
Life After Brain Injury
Alumna Carolyn Gold on finding a “new self” after West Nile encephalitis
Edgar James Banks
Brief life of an entrepreneurial archaeologist: 1866-1945