Students & Alumni

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

Letters from Readers About Harvard’s Standoff with the Trump Administration

Harvard Magazine readers respond to Harvard’s standoff with the Trump administration.

by Jonathan Shaw

Profile of photography curator Makeda Best

Focusing on the Harvard Art Museums’ new photography curator

by Sophia Nguyen

Development leader departs, undergraduate ed dean steps down, and more

Development leader departs, undergraduate ed dean steps down, and more

Alain Locke as activist aesthete

Rediscovering Alain Locke and the project of black self-realization

by Adam Kirsch

Brew’s clues: profile of Theresa McCulla, the Smithsonian's "beer historian"

A historian tracks the craft-beer boom, and the evolution of American taste.

by Bailey Trela

Harvard researcher Erica Walker combats urban noise

Erica Walker aims to put “tools and data into the hands of people who can use it.”

by Nell Porter-Brown

HAA Honors Alumni Clubs and SIGs for 2018

A celebration of significant alumni and shared interest groups

“Gorey’s World” at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Edward Gorey’s own art collection at the Wadsworth Atheneum

by Nell Porter-Brown