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.
Thomas Starr King: Protector of the Union, and Yosemite
Brief life of a transcendentalist out West
President Bacow and Kevin Young at Annual Alumni Meeting
Harvard holds its first virtual alumni association annual meeting—with a powerful guest speaker.
Melvin Miller ’56: “Not going…to stand aside”
The founder, editor, and publisher of The Bay State Banner profiled
Harvard Election Results
Harvard Forward gains a fourth seat on the Board of Overseers.
Centennial Medalists 2021
Four alumni of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences are honored.
A Net-Zero-Energy Victorian Home Makes History
HBS alumna Betsy Harper develops the first net-zero-energy, Victorian “passive house” in the world.
Kevin Young Addresses Harvard Alumni Association
The acclaimed poet and director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture will speak at the annual meeting on June 4—and other graduation-week speakers are announced.
Singer, songwriter, harmonica player Scott Albert Johnson
Scott Albert Johnson finds his path.
by Jacob Sweet
Arabic translator Marilyn Booth
Marilyn Booth translates Arabic literature for Anglophone readers.
Novelist Maggie Shipstead and “Great Circle”
Maggie Shipstead’s time-spanning, globe-circling new novel
by Dan Kelly