Students & Alumni

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

Photo portraits of the 2020 Miller-Hunn Award winners

Miller-Hunn Awards 2020

The College Admissions Office’s 2020 Miller-Hunn Award winners

Portrait photos of HAA Award winners

2020 HAA Award winners

Six alumni are honored for significant volunteer service.

Harvard Alumni Association 2020 elected directors

The Alumni Association’s new elected directors

Historic photograph of Charles Follen Cabot, Civil War soldier, standing, in uniform

Civil War image, Empire State homage, and more

A Civil War image and an Empire State Building homage

by Primus VI

Ross Douthat standing in a wooded park

Ross Douthat’s conservative conservatism, a profile by Lydialyle Gibson

New York Times columnist Ross Douthat’s journey through American decadence and upheaval

by Lydialyle Gibson

Portrait photograph of a middle-aged Lorenzo Tañada as a Philippine senator

Lorenzo Tañada

Brief life of a Philippine patriot: 1898-1992

by Christopher Capozzola

A California hillside burns

Can solar geoengineering slow climate change?

Coming to terms with climate change’s relentless, long-term fallout

by Jonathan Shaw

Black and white photo of a group of Vietnamese children, titled “Schoolchildren Playing Cards”

Photographer Mark Erickson’s street scenes of 1990s Vietnam

Photographer Mark Erickson on the Vietnam he never knew

by Dan Kelly

Red graphic which reads At Home with Harvard: Sounds of Music

At Home with Harvard: Sounds of Music

A selection of our stories on musicians, composers, conductors, music scholars, and more 

Graphic with red background that reads At Home with Harvard: Remarkable Alumni

At Home with Harvard: Remarkable Alumni

Some Harvard matriculants really took the road less traveled.