Students

Narratives and news capturing the lives, struggles, and achievements of current students.

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

The New Crew

The 2023-24 Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows. 

A large group of donkeys entering Harvard Yard with a few elephants interspersed.

The Elephant in the Room

Conservative undergraduates’ campus debates

by Max J. Krupnick

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In Defense of Liberal Arts

A semester abroad clarifies the value of the curriculum back home.

by Sofia Andrade

The Catoctin Furnace casting shed

Tracing the Enslaved to Modern Descendants

A new technique for connecting ancient DNA to living relatives may have implications for institutions with legacies of slavery.

by Jonathan Shaw

Harvard Undergraduate Disability Justice Club

Addressing Disability

The new Harvard student activism

by Ryan Doan-Nguyen

Right-hander Jay Driver mid-pitch

Jay Driver’s Major League Dreams

Harvard pitcher Jay Driver hopes to be selected in the Major League Baseball draft.

by Max J. Krupnick

Photograph of student rally against the Supreme Court decision with the John Harvard statue in the background

Harvard Students Protest Supreme Court Ruling

With a march and speeches, students vowed to fight back.

by Ryan Doan-Nguyen

Pictured left to right, top to bottom: Oge Ogbogu, Nicole Austen, Aarya Kaushik, Michael Evans

Meet Harvard’s Undergraduate Authors

Dystopia, sickle cell, jazz, and wolves: four Harvard students chronicle their paths to publication.

Easing the College Transition

Rising Scholars brings incoming first-years from under-funded high schools to campus early.

by Max J. Krupnick

Harvard Cambridge Scholars

Four moving on to further studies abroad