Students & Alumni

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

A collage showing Harvard president Alan M. Garber greeting new students on campus, shaking hands, gathered students and families in the Yard, and orientation setup

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

Robert M. Pennoyer, age 19, on duty in 1944

Harvard alumnus recalls World War II

A member of the class of 1946 on the horrors, and humor, of World War II.

by Primus VI

Pranks in Pusey Library

A retrospective on the Lampoon’s 140 years of mischief

by Aidan Langston

Harvard researchers find evidence of China's Great Flood

Researchers unearth geological evidence to support one of the country’s earliest folk legends.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Novelist Colson Whitehead, profiled by Jesse McCarthy

Colson Whitehead ’91 plays for higher stakes in his new novel.

by Jesse McCarthy

Teaching Children to Care

Dina Buchbinder Auron, M.P.A. ’16, uses sports to get children excited about solving global problems.

by Aidan Langston

Justin Cronin ’84’s “The City of Mirrors”

Thanks to Harvard, according to a new fantasy epic by Justin Cronin ’84

by Grayson Clary

Harvard hockey player Bill Keenan writes a memoir

The post-Harvard hockey tales of Bill Keenan

by Bailey Trela

Megan White Mukuria and her tools

Megan White Mukuria and ZanaAfrica Foundation aid Kenyan girls

An alumna’s novel approach to helping Kenyan tweens

by Olivia Campbell

Law School graduates flaunt their profession’s symbol of authority.

Harvard’s 365th Commencement

Harvard goes Hollywood for Commencement, with sunny scenery, but sober talk.

Harvard honorary-degree recipients of 2016

The honorands of 2016