Stories

As executive vice president of engineering at New Leaf Energy, clean energy expert Jacqueline Ashmore PhD ’03 spearheads efforts to develop solar, energy storage, and wind power technologies, with the goal of accelerating the transition to a more sustainable world.

What makes a House a home? We asked two alumni working on House Renewal at Harvard.

Distinguished journalist Sewell Chan AB '98 was chosen by his classmates to serve as the 2023 chief marshal of alumni.

A $75 million gift from Ernesto Bertarelli will create a new atrium and name an iconic campus building at Harvard Medical School.

For David Kwong '02, puzzles are magic

The Cummings Foundation has committed $50 million for an alliance between Harvard Medical School and the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda.

Philip Mote AB '87 says rolling out climate solutions calls for coordinated efforts on policy, investment, innovation, and a lot of that comes back to the choices we make. 

Karmon succeeds Philip Lovejoy as executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association.

Amy Huang ’17 wants to help us find new ways of feeding the world

The co-directors of the Harvard University Data Science Initiative discuss a new collaboration with Amazon Web Services.

Jim Stock discusses what’s ahead for innovative, cross-disciplinary, University-wide effort.

Laverne Cox, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Deval Patrick AB '78, JD '82 were among those honored for their extraordinary commitment to social justice.

As director of the Planetary Health Alliance at Harvard, Sam Myers AB '87, MPH '07 helps lead a rapidly growing movement focused on how our degradation of the natural world has become a crucial threat to our existence.

Alumna Kelsey Wirth AB ’91 founded Mothers Our Front, a grassroots organization that mobilizes moms—and anyone else who would like to join—to take action in the climate crisis.

A research alliance provides significant funding for faculty-led research at the Harvard Quantum Initiative.

A newly released report outlines a series of concrete steps to expand climate education in every discipline across Harvard.

What happens when women are relegated to the sidelines? Susie DeLellis Petruccelli ’96 is sharing their stories to equalize the playing fields

As a scientist and San Antonio city councilor, Ana Sandoval MPH ’15 has made mitigating the effects of climate change on human health the primary focus of her public service.

In his last Convocation address as Harvard president, Larry Bacow urged the Class of 2026 to learn to listen to those with different views.

Harvard Corporation Senior Fellow Penny Pritzker AB '81 discusses a range of issues facing the University, including the upcoming search for a new president.