Featured series 
Tag: Alumni
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Campus & Community
Harvard takes to the Twin Cities
President Drew Faust and University faculty explore changing times at Your Harvard event in Minnesota.
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Campus & Community
Working in the service of others
The sixth annual Public Interested Conference brought together nearly 150 Harvard alumni who shared their experiences in the public service sector.
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Campus & Community
The Harvard that was
Alumni from the 1950s to 2000s share their memories of Harvard and historical events that marked their time in Cambridge.
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Campus & Community
A Harvard break for adventure
Wintersession, a College-led, 10-day initiative between the fall and spring terms, brings together students, faculty, and alumni to learn new skills and explore their passions inside and outside their fields of academic pursuit.
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Campus & Community
Harvard’s alumni impact
Inaugural study shows that Harvard alumni worldwide create vast businesses and nonprofit organizations, accounting for millions of jobs, economic impact, and volunteering success.
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Campus & Community
The Harvard Campaign, two years in
Organizers see strong collaboration, solid alumni engagement, efforts already bearing fruit.
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Campus & Community
GSAS presents Centennial Medals
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences awarded the Centennial Medal to four of its alumni on May 27, honoring their “contributions to society as they have emerged from [their] graduate education at Harvard.”
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Campus & Community
Why I volunteer for Harvard …
While most Harvard journeys start on campus, they rarely end there. More than 10,000 College alumni give back as steadfast volunteers, in more ways than one. Four alumni share why they dedicate their time and energy to Harvard.
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Campus & Community
Rhythm and motion
Here’s a sound and snapshot sample of Wintersession classes in action.
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Campus & Community
Exploration, transformation
The fifth annual Harvard College Wintersession featured a host of events, from print-making on clay tablets to yoga classes to programming featuring prominent alumni.
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Nation & World
Journey to Mexico
Harvard President Drew Faust, University administrators, and faculty members are in Mexico this week for a series of meetings, tours, and alumni events. During their visit to the nation with the largest number of Harvard degree recipients in Latin America, participants are posting items about what they do and see.
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Nation & World
Meeting of the minds
Harvard Business School’s disruptive innovation guru Clayton Christensen uses crowdsourcing to accelerate the evolution of his latest theory on corporate investment decisions.
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Campus & Community
Reflections on a half century at Harvard
John P. “Jack” Reardon Jr. ’60, who will step down as Harvard Alumni Association executive director in July, shares his memories as he looks back on 50 years at Harvard University.
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Campus & Community
Eight to receive honorary degrees
Former New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, the principal speaker at Afternoon Exercises, will be joined onstage by a former U.S. president, a singer, an economist, and other leading lights.
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Campus & Community
Motivated by impact
More than 700 alumni volunteers will ask their peers to give to Harvard in celebration of a reunion or as an annual gift.
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Campus & Community
Fund to tackle climate change
In an effort to catalyze research into sustainable energy sources, Harvard President Drew Faust has challenged University friends and alumni to raise a $20 million Climate Change Solutions Fund and seed new approaches to confronting the threat of climate change.
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Campus & Community
In L.A., the watchword is Harvard
More than 350 Harvard alumni and friends gathered in Los Angeles earlier this month to network with peers and take part in discussions on why creativity is so essential to living our best lives.
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Campus & Community
Elections open for Overseers and HAA directors
This spring, alumni can vote for a new group of Harvard Overseers and Harvard Alumni Association elected directors.
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Campus & Community
Professor Robert R. Bowie dies at 104
Robert R. Bowie, the Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs Emeritus and founder and first director of the Center for International Affairs (now the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs) died Nov. 2 at the age of 104.
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Campus & Community
Harvard alumnus wins share of medicine Nobel
James E. Rothman, a 1976 Harvard alumnus, won a share of the 2013 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for work illuminating the internal machinery that cells use to transport molecules.
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Campus & Community
Six alums honored for service
Five alumni were recognized with Harvard Alumni Association Awards at a ceremony on Oct. 24.
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Campus & Community
David K. Smith, former dean of Radcliffe admissions, 77
Former dean of Radcliffe admissions David K. “Deke” Smith of Topsham, Maine, died Aug. 14 at the age of 77, following a brief battle with cancer.
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Arts & Culture
Oscar winner Matt Damon on his Harvard years
Actor Matt Damon, former Harvard College student and winner of the 2013 Harvard Arts Medal, talks of his time on campus, his lifelong desire to be an actor, and how a College playwriting course assignment later turned into the Academy Award-winning screenplay for “Good Will Hunting.”
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Campus & Community
At 101, another look around
The only one of the Class of 1933 to return at Commencement has led a life of adventure and accomplishment.
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Campus & Community
Jesse Berlin to receive Lagakos Award
The Harvard Department of Biostatistics has announced that Jesse Berlin will be this year’s recipient of the annual Lagakos Distinguished Alumni Award.
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Campus & Community
College alumna receives Opel Award
The 2013 Jane Rainie Opel Award was presented to Christin McConnell ’03 during a ceremony on Radcliffe Day.
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Campus & Community
‘A lifetime of limitless possibility’
Carl F. Muller ’73, J.D. ’76, M.B.A. ’76, is stepping down as president of the Harvard Alumni Association and Catherine A. Gellert ’93 will take his place.
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Nation & World
Triumph against long odds
He grew up poor in Prague, but Jirka Jelinek ’13 used his College years to learn, grow, and discover other parts of the world.
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Campus & Community
Different and not
For Cesar Alvarez, the move from his small North Dakota village was a major one, but his Harvard experience has reinforced values he’s carried since childhood.
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Campus & Community
Three win Alpha Iota Prize for Excellence in Teaching
The PBK Literary Exercises focus on a poet and a speaker every year. But they also provide an occasion for naming honorary members and for awarding the Alpha Iota Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
