Stories

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.

Lawrence S. Bacow JD '76, MPP '76, PhD '78, will step down as president of Harvard University on June 30, 2023.

The incoming president of the Harvard Alumni Association, Allyson Mendenhall AB '90, MLA '99 is committed to creating inclusive alumni experiences.

In October 2021, administration of Harvard’s charitable trusts, pooled income funds, and annuities transitioned from the Trusts and Gifts team at Harvard Management Company (HMC) to TIAA Kaspick.

For Arlene Hirschfeld, a planned gift to support the Women’s Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School is an extension of her life’s work of helping people and organizations be all they can be.

By establishing a charitable remainder trust for their children, Dick AB '58 and Lucy Sallick are helping to secure Harvard's future as well as their family's. 

The eighth round of Climate Change Solutions Fund grants will fund 10 projects led by Harvard faculty and students.

Katie Lapp, Harvard's chief administrative officer since 2009, will be succeeded by Meredith Weenick AB '90, MBA '02.

Two Harvard faculty members received a stipend to pursue research and writing in the social sciences and humanities.

Harvard alumna will become the first Black woman to serve on the nation’s highest court.

Author, scholar, and educator Allyson Hobbs AB '97 will lead the alumni parade as part of Harvard Alumni Day.

Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Tracy K. Smith AB '94 will be the featured speaker at an on-campus celebration of Harvard's global alumni community on June 3.

Jackson, a D.C. appeals court judge and Harvard alumna, would be the first Black woman to serve on the nation’s highest court.