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

Stephen J. Rapp seeks justice for Syrian victims of war crimes

Stephen J. Rapp seeks justice for Syrian victims of war crimes.

by Ben Beach

Remembering Towering Physicist Julian Schwinger (1918-1994)

At Jefferson Laboratory, Nobel Prize winners gather to remember one of their own.

by Jonathan Shaw

Symposium with Harvard alumni MLB executives

A Harvard-in-baseball symposium, just before spring training

by Lydialyle Gibson

“Gorey’s World” at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Edward Gorey’s own art collection at the Wadsworth Atheneum

by Nell Porter-Brown

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