Students & Alumni

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

Harvard President Alan Garber Helps First-Years Move In

As a potential settlement with the Trump administration looms, Garber gets students settled. 

by Olivia Farrar

Harvard first-gen alumni stories

Alumni describe their challenges in leaving home and coming to the College.

by John S. Rosenberg

How a Young Alumni Movement Wants to Change Harvard’s Investment Policies

An emerging, expansive view of socially responsive endowment investments

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard First-Generation Student Alumni Stories

Alumni share their moving stories through the first interest-group “class report.”

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard Board of Overseers Divestment, Governance Challenge

Young alumni and others advance an agenda of governance change and divestment from fossil-fuel investments.

Harvard Faculty Divestment Debate

A formal, docketed discussion as proponents of divestment intensify their campaign 

by John S. Rosenberg

Who has attended the most Harvard-Yale Games?

Who’ll carry the traditionalists’ Little Red Flag?

Profile of comedian-magician Harrison Greenbaum

For Harrison Greenbaum, it began with “Pick a card….”

by Lydialyle Gibson

Ali Sethi finds his voice in classical Pakistani music

Singer Ali Sethi finds his voice in classical Pakistani music.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Preserving craft and farm skills at Sanborn Mills Farm

Promoting craftsmanship and agrarian skills in an idyllic New Hampshire setting

by Nell Porter-Brown

2019 Miller-Hunn Award recipients

Honoring outstanding alumni interviewers for the College