Students & Alumni

Alexander Heffner and Governor Maura Healey

Alumni Profiles |

Breaking Bread

Alexander Heffner ’12 plumbs the state of democracy.

by Jack R. Trapanick

Portrait of Debby Smullyan, retiring obituaries editor

Letters | July-August 2023

In Service

Editing obituaries and class notes

Group photo of Du Yun, Daniel Goleman, Mina Jahan Bissell, Sanford Greenberg, Catherine Gattegno Cesarsky, and John Dower

John Harvard's Journal | July-August 2023

Centennial Medalists

Six alumni of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences are honored.

John Harvard's Journal | July-August 2023

Easing the College Transition

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

by Max J. Krupnick

John Harvard's Journal | July-August 2023

Harvard Medalists

Five honored for service to the University 

Two students pose in Harvard Stadium. One holds a basketball and the other holds a soccer ball.

University People | July-August 2023

Striving for the Straus Cup

The students who keep competition friendly

by Max J. Krupnick

John Harvard's Journal | July-August 2023

Harvard Cambridge Scholars

Four moving on to further studies abroad 

An illustration of a young woman at an easel, holding a paintbrush and tracing a path while looking out across a landscape of other people following their own path

University People | July-August 2023

Uncharted Territory

A recent graduate thinks about what is means to take unconventional paths after Harvard.

by Josie Abugov

Gram Parsons stands in front of a bus in Harvard Square

Features | July-August 2023

Sound as Ever

Gram Parsons and Harvard’s hand in country rock

by Nancy Walecki

Ursula Bailey working in a Harvard geology laboratory, 1945

Features | July-August 2023

Ursula B. Marvin

Brief life of a pioneering planetary geologist: 1921-2018

by David A. Kring

John Harvard's Journal | July-August 2023

Election Results 2023

New Harvard Overseers and HAA elected directors