Students & Alumni

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

Alan Garber speaking at a podium in Memorial Church, with wooden panels in the background.

In Sermon, Garber Urges Harvard Community to ‘Defend and Protect’ Institutions

Harvard’s president uses traditional Memorial Church address to encourage divergent views.

by Jonathan Shaw

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

For the Homies

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

by Josie Abugov

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

A New Face of American Evangelicalism

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

by Nell Porter-Brown

Bertram A. “Bert” Huberman ’44, M.B.A. ’48, the most senior attendee at the weekend’s festivities.

Oldest and First

Bertram A. “Bert” Huberman ’44 and Ruth Samuels Villalovos ’49 led the alumni parade.

by Ryan Doan-Nguyen

Mary Louise Kelly

Harvard Alumni Day Speaker Announced

NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly will address alumni June 2.

by Nell Porter-Brown

A rendering of MASS Design’s proposal to reclaim the waterfront and renew Poughkeepsie’s center

Building a Better World

MASS Design’s healing architecture

by Mark Travis

Archibald Henry Grimke in 1927

Archibald Henry Grimke

Brief life of a Black Harvard Law School graduate: 1849-1930

by Kerri K. Greenidge

Jimmy Tingle holding a microphone and performing on stage

Comedy with a Conscience

Jimmy Tingle’s political humor in a polarized era

by Craig Lambert

Screenwriter Julian Breece working with a colleague on set

Finding the Movie

Screenwriter Julian Breece on “writing from the soul”

by Lydialyle Gibson

V.V. Ganeshananthan

Stories of a Not-So-Distant War

Novelist V.V. Ganeshananthan on writing diasporic fiction

by Bailey Trela