Alumni | February 17, 2012

Class notes and obituaries March-April 2012

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Published in the March-April 2012 print issue under the headline “The Classes,” in the Alumni section.

The school’s largest-ever gift comes after a year of record fundraising.

Karl Deisseroth revolutionized neuroscience. Navanethem “Navi” Pillay has adjudicated cases in international courts concerning genocide.

The outgoing executive director and Harvard Business School graduate went from dancing The Nutcracker to growing a ballet company.

A Harvard Kennedy School event looks behind the scenes of the Netflix drama.

In 1954, Gregory Corso moved into Eliot House. How he stayed there is a literary legend.

As humanities shrink across higher education, one department is flourishing. Is its success a fluke, or a roadmap?

The outgoing executive director and Harvard Business School graduate went from dancing The Nutcracker to growing a ballet company.

Harvard researchers investigate climate’s impact on cocoa crops, innovations in nasal vaccines, and links between pain and skull marrow.

For advocacy and benevolence, three late alumni are reportedly in line for the Catholic Church’s highest honor.