Alumni Profiles


Breaking Bread

Alexander Heffner ’12 plumbs the state of democracy.

by Jack R. Trapanick

Making Space

The natural history of Junko Yamamoto’s art and architecture

by Nina Pasquini

Winthrop Bell

Brief life of a philosopher and spy: 1884-1965

by Jason Bell

Greg Stone, An Emerging Novelist at 70

Late-life inspiration leads to pulpy noir novel

by Lydialyle Gibson

Living the Science Fiction Fantasy

Novelist Catherine Asaro’s space operas

by Lydialyle Gibson

Behind the Scenes

The quirky surrealism of production designer Sue Chan

by Stuart Miller

Thinking Archaically

The earthly permanence of Romolo Del Deo’s sculpture

by Jacob Sweet

Educational Ascent

Ruth Simmons on her ascent from sharecropper’s daughter to scholar

Football: The Tapestry

David C.K. McClelland’s famous Lampoon cover

by Craig Lambert

Her Bread and Butter

A third-generation French baker on legacy loaves and the "magic" of baking

by Nell Porter Brown

The Sound of Science

Composer and biophysicist Amir Bitran

by Nancy Walecki