Alumni | May 18, 2012

American Academy of Arts and Letters awards to Harvard alumni

Alumni recognized by American Academy of Arts and Letters

Pete Seeger ’40, the folk singer, recipient of the Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts; read an excerpt from New Yorker writer Alec Wilkinson’s recent book-length portrait.
Poet Frederick Seidel ’57, and Adam Hochschild ’63, author of several books, including King Leopold’s Ghost (about the Belgian colonization of the Congo, a National Book Critics Circle award finalist)—both recipients of Arts and Letters Awards in Literature; read a review of Seidel’s recent collected poems by Adam Kirsch ’97.
Roger Angell ’42, the New Yorker’s long-time fiction editor, baseball correspondent, and light-verse master (notably the year-end, full-page “Greetings, Friends!” poems), recipient of the Michael Braude Award for Light Verse; read an excerpt from Angell’s memoir.

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 conversation between the comedian and the celebrated cellist was interrupted by a fire alarm in Sanders Theatre.

In 2004, a frenzy spread across Harvard Yard in days. Four billion users later, we are only just catching up.

Some faculty complain about the protests’ effect on students.

The professor and former Harvard College dean is the next president of Harvard Magazine’s Board of Directors

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

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