Students & Alumni

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

Saluting the 2025 Centennial Medalists

Four alumni of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences are honored.

by Olivia Farrar

A New Face of American Evangelicalism

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

by Nell Porter-Brown

Oldest and First

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

by Ryan Doan-Nguyen

Harvard Alumni Day Speaker Announced

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

by Nell Porter-Brown

Building a Better World

MASS Design’s healing architecture

by Mark Travis

Archibald Henry Grimke

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

by Kerri K. Greenidge

Comedy with a Conscience

Jimmy Tingle’s political humor in a polarized era

by Craig Lambert

Finding the Movie

Screenwriter Julian Breece on “writing from the soul”

by Lydialyle Gibson

Stories of a Not-So-Distant War

Novelist V.V. Ganeshananthan on writing diasporic fiction

by Bailey Trela

“Something Is Very Broken”

Boston Area Gleaners fights hunger from the ground up.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Flying Squirrel

Wingsuit skydiver Alejandro Montagna on minimizing risk—at 150 mph

by Nancy Walecki