Students & Alumni
Breaking Bread
Alexander Heffner ’12 plumbs the state of democracy.
by Jack R. Trapanick
Strategic Planning
A chess player’s moves on AI safety
by Nina Pasquini
Spellbound on Stage
Actor and young adult novelist Aislinn Brophy
by Lydialyle Gibson
A Dogged Observer
Novelist and psychiatrist Daniel Mason takes the long view.
by Max J. Krupnick
Diagnosis by Fiction
The “Healing Quartet,” by “Samuel Shem,” probes medicine—and life.
by Craig Lambert
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
Board of Overseers and HAA Elected Director Candidates
The slates for this spring’s ballot
Computational Control of a Living Brain?
How an AI agent learned to guide an animal to food—and what it might mean for Parkinson’s patients.
by Jonathan Shaw
Cousins in the Ancient World
Long-distance human migration and population bottlenecks revealed in ancient DNA
by Jonathan Shaw
Greg Stone, An Emerging Novelist at 70
Late-life inspiration leads to pulpy noir novel
by Lydialyle Gibson