Featured series 
Tag: Alumni
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Nation & World
IGs oversee most federal agencies. Why not the Supreme Court?
Inspector general would boost accountability, trust in federal judiciary, argues Glenn Fine in talk promoting new book, ‘Watchdogs’
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Arts & Culture
Does academic writing have to be boring?
English professor, journalist says first step to better prose is being aware that no one has to read you
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Campus & Community
FAS creates new professorships in civil discourse and AI
Gift from business leader Alfred Lin ’94 and artist Rebecca Lin ’94, part of record 30th reunion giving, builds on critical new efforts on dialogue and generative AI
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Campus & Community
Acknowledging achievements, offering optimism
‘Harvard Extension School degree candidates put challenging academics at the center, not the margins, of their lives.’
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Arts & Culture
Making creation a career
Alumni in the arts share insights and lifelong impact of campus involvement
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Arts & Culture
Art and Big Ideas are not strange bedfellows
Both spring from hard questions, benefit from interdisciplinary feedback, former Radcliffe fellows say
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Arts & Culture
This is how you dated before there were apps
Writer Simon Rich sketches life in satiric, post-climate-change dystopia through a great-grandfather’s reminiscences
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Nation & World
‘Could I really cut it?’
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson discusses new memoir, ‘unlikely path’ from South Florida to Harvard to nation’s highest court
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Campus & Community
Brian Lee to step down as VP for alumni affairs and development
‘Champion of Harvard and our mission’ will depart at end of calendar year
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Campus & Community
Bringing personal perspective to homeless care
Soon-to-be Med School grad’s family struggled in U.S. after fleeing war-torn Central America. He hasn’t forgotten.
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Campus & Community
When math is the dream
Dora Woodruff was drawn to beauty of numbers as child. Next up: Ph.D. at MIT.
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Campus & Community
Initiatives showcase solutions to world problems
President’s Innovation Challenge finalists announced, will vie for share of $515,000 in funding
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Campus & Community
Maria Ressa named 2024 Commencement speaker
Nobel Prize-winning defender of press freedom will deliver principal address
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Work & Economy
Lending a hand to a former student — Boston’s mayor
Economist gathers group of Boston area academics to assess costs of creating tax incentives for developers to ease housing crunch
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Campus & Community
Parrot tale
‘Beyond Words’ dramatizes story of former Harvard researcher and famous bird
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Campus & Community
Overseer, HAA elected director elections ballot set
Candidates as they will appear on the ballot
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Arts & Culture
Can you embrace deep joy amid deep loss?
Leslie Jamison traces how first-time motherhood, crumbling of marriage left her with new, different life
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Campus & Community
Class of 1999 elects Baratunde Thurston as chief marshal of alumni
Writer, TV host, comedian, commentator to join in 125-year-old tradition
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Campus & Community
Opening conversation on more, better discourse
Summit, hosted by College, PEN America, gathers speakers, workshops as part of Harvard Dialogues initiative
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Campus & Community
Alumni committee announces candidates for Harvard board positions
Elections for Overseers, HAA elected directors set for April-May.
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Campus & Community
A life that was a ‘monument for what one person can do to serve others’
Friends, colleagues honor Joe O’Donnell, self-made business success who kept focus on people at center of endeavors, was fiercely loyal to family, wide circle of others — and Harvard
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Arts & Culture
How to translate a Nobel-winning author (and 700-page sentence)
Damion Searls — English ‘gateway’ for Jon Fosse and other writers — discusses Harvard roots, elevating new voices, and his multilingual ‘Matrix’ moment
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Campus & Community
‘These are all just young people like us, figuring themselves out’
High-schoolers get taste of everyday campus life through archival materials, some featuring Harvard’s most famous alumni.
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Campus & Community
Honoring University grads – including one named Bacow
The Harvard Alumni Associations’ second annual Harvard Alumni Day, a University-wide event celebrating alumni impact, citizenship, and community, featured keynote speaker Mary Louise Kelly ’93.
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Campus & Community
Candidates announced for board positions
Beginning April 1, Harvard degree holders will have the opportunity to vote for new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers and elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association.
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Campus & Community
Meet Harvard’s 2022 Beijing Olympians
The University will be well-represented by six athletes at the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, beginning Friday in Beijing. Under the flags of Canada, Switzerland, and the United States, as…
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Campus & Community
Dear white women
Misasha Suzuki Graham and Sara Blanchard met while undergraduates at Harvard College. They later launched a podcast, “Dear White Women,” and published a book by the same name.
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Nation & World
Fighting for equality at the ballot box
Law School affiliates talk about the fight for racial equality at the voting booth.
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Science & Tech
‘Climate Conversations’ series aims to build community, spur action
‘Climate Conversations’ series engages researchers, leaders, practitioners, and organizers to seek paths to collaboration, solutions.
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Nation & World
Talking pandemic across borders
Two Harvard alumni created the Bridging Borders Project to assemble the perspectives of world leaders and exchange health policy ideas about the pandemic.
