Alumni Profiles


Slow and Steady

A Harvard Law School graduate completes marathons in all 50 states.  

by Jacob Sweet

Notes on Doctoring

Michael Stanley and the covenant of medicine

by Lydialyle Gibson

Math Professor Lauren Williams Explores New Ground

Williams feels at home researching underexplored subjects.

by Jacob Sweet

Reporting, with an M.B.A.

Charles Duhigg unpacks how individuals and organizations work at war, on Wall Street, and in Silicon Valley

by Jonathan Shaw

Life After Brain Injury

Alumna Carolyn Gold on finding a “new self” after West Nile encephalitis

by Lydialyle Gibson

The Food Waste Problem

Emily Broad Leib combats wasted food worldwide.

by Jacob Sweet

The Art of the Portrait Painter

Jason Bouldin makes the intangible tangible.

by Lydialyle Gibson

How Myth and Memoir Intertwine

Elisabeth Sharp McKetta ’01 finds truth in the border between fact and fiction.

by Juliet Isselbacher

People-Powered Journalism

At Democracy Now! Amy Goodman goes “where the silence is.”

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

A Landscape Architect's Outdoor Artwork

Todd Gilens brings wilderness into urban public art.

by Lydialyle Gibson

A Beloved Bengali Poet in Translation

A new book presents a mother and daughter’s final collaboration

by Lydialyle Gibson