Tag: Alumni
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Nation & World
How high school shapes future success
Study associates 2 factors with better long-term outcomes, including higher earnings at age 30

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Campus & Community
A community-sized Seder plate
Through sculpture’s 6 stories, Hillel seeks to portray ‘a bigger picture of what it means to be Jewish’

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Campus & Community
SEAL, doctor, astronaut, Harvard Alumni Day speaker
Jonny Kim will address Harvard’s global alumni community

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Health
Why mattering matters
Author of best-seller talks about power of feeling valued, asking for help — and how AI threatens core human need

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Arts & Culture
‘New trick’ at 50: Fiction. And now, raves.
Janet Rich-Edwards on the Radcliffe moment that helped turn an epidemiologist into a novelist

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Arts & Culture
The downside of winning an Oscar
Alum with Academy Award to his credit details hills and valleys of Hollywood career

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Campus & Community
Conan O’Brien ’85 named Commencement speaker
Comedy legend who once led Lampoon will deliver principal address on May 28

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Campus & Community
Ballot order set for Overseer and HAA director elections
Candidates finalized ahead of spring voting period

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Nation & World
How to end polarization? Schools may be best hope.
Journalist blends history, on-the-ground reporting, finds answer may be civic education that goes far beyond 3 branches of government

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Campus & Community
Class of 2001 elects Alejandra Casillas as chief marshal of alumni
Physician and health equity leader to serve in time-honored role

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Nation & World
Worried about how AI may affect foreign policy? You should be.
Experts discuss vulnerabilities, need for oversight of tech development, regulation

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Campus & Community
A second shot at Olympic glory
Battle-tested current, former students return to Winter Games

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Arts & Culture
Tina Fey’s keys to a good joke: Snark, confidence, surprise
Comedian keeps Harvard crowd laughing with longtime co-writer Robert Carlock ’95

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Campus & Community
Alumni rally to support next generation of researchers
FAS launches match to secure $100M for Ph.D.s

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Arts & Culture
Updike’s life in letters
From teen penning fan mail on family farm to Pulitzer Prize-winning author: ‘He needed to write the way most of us need to breathe or eat’

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Campus & Community
Alumni committee names candidates for Harvard board elections
Voting for Board of Overseers and HAA elected directors begins April 1

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Arts & Culture
How her life shaped mine
Gish Jen’s ties with her mother were important, difficult. She examines why in new novel, ‘Bad Bad Girl.’

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Campus & Community
‘How old are you? 70s? You’re JV, maybe next year.’
Olympic gold winner Bill Becklean has been at crew for 75 years, will be coxing boat of octogenarians at Head of the Charles

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Arts & Culture
Was ‘Aeneid’ critiquing or glorifying empire?
Authors of new translation dig into lasting impact of epic that Virgil wanted burned

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Campus & Community
A homecoming for Adams House alums
Tours, talks, tributes to history and community mark celebration of six-year project to refresh space

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Science & Tech
How an astronaut calculates risk
With blast-off date approaching, Anil Menon prepares for the ‘impossible’

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Science & Tech
Our viral vocabulary
Adam Aleksic — aka the ‘Etymology Nerd’ — discusses how social media algorithms are transforming language

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Nation & World
‘Now I have become death, the destroyer of the worlds’
Oral history offers kaleidoscopic view of angst and relief, hope and dread at test of atomic bomb 80 years ago

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Arts & Culture
Funny or failure? It’s a fine line.
‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ writer on taking risks in comedy and why getting laughs is worth near-constant rejection

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Nation & World
Why was Pacific Northwest home to so many serial killers?
In ‘Murderland,’ alum explores lead-crime theory through lens of her own memories growing up there

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Arts & Culture
Is the secret to immortality in our DNA?
Alum’s campus novel offers cautionary tale to biotech culture

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Campus & Community
‘Who we are and what we stand for’
Amid Harvard Alumni Day celebration, speakers address challenges, share messages of strength and resolve

