Students & Alumni

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

Highlighting Harvard Magazine’s Fellows

The 2025-2026 Ledecky and Summer Undergraduate Fellows

Composer Ashley Fure unleashes her visceral opera “The Force of Things”

Composer Ashley Fure wants people to listen to noise.

by Jennifer Gersten

Athlete Activism and Harvard Men's Basketball

Sociologist Harry Edwards and broadcaster James Brown weigh protest and progress in sports, and in Harvard basketball.

by David L. Tannenwald

Freshman year, 10 years out

A graduate reflects on history—personal and otherwise.

by Adam Goodheart

Nuclear War in Korea? Eggs and Taxes More Urgent

Living calmly next to a rogue nuclear state

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

Alec Karakatsanis fights for criminal-justice reform in the U.S. legal system

Alec Karakatsanis puts “human caging” and “wealth-based detention” in America on trial.

by Michael Zuckerman

A Life of Adventure and Delight

Akhil Sharma is less interested in ideology in itself than in politics as a backdrop to emotional conflict.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society members forge a lasting bond

Fifty years after they sang their way around the globe as undergraduates, they returned to Cambridge with full hearts and voices. 

by Lydialyle Gibson

Brief life of Carl Thorne-Thomsen, Vietnam veteran from Harvard

Brief life of a man of principle: 1946-1967

by Bonnie Docherty

Songwriter and Semisonic frontman Dan Wilson reclaims his hits on "Re-Covered"

The Grammy Award-winning songwriter Dan Wilson reclaims his catalog.

by Max Suechting

Alison Carey, on directing the American Revolutions cycle at the OSF

Historical plays for a nation “stuck in the middle”

by Lydialyle Gibson