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

American bird art in Canton, Massachusetts

A trip to Mass Audubon’s unique art museum

by Nell Porter-Brown

Celebrating John F. Kennedy

Centennial celebrations for John F. Kennedy in Brookline

by Nell Porter-Brown

Logic Is a Little Magazine That Asks Big Questions about the Tech Industry

Four alums foster Logic, a new magazine focusing on a complex tech world on fire.

by Oset Babür

Learning to Lose

Sharmila Sen on making a life in the humanities. 

by Bailey Trela

Harvard women’s basketball has a big weekend

Alumnae weekend helps explain Harvard women’s enduring basketball success.

by David L. Tannenwald

Harvard Magazine puzzle master retires

A longtime contributor hangs up his pencil.

Brief life of Henry Knowles Beecher, anesthetist and late-blooming ethicist

Brief life of a late-blooming ethicist: 1904-1976

by Jack El-Hai

Justice Stephen Breyer is profiled by Lincoln Caplan

The optimistic project of Justice Stephen Breyer

by Lincoln Caplan

Documentarian Kent Garrett reflects on how “Black Journal” broke down barriers

How Black Journal raised the country's consciousness, and opened Kent Garrett's eyes to television's potential

by Sophia Nguyen