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.

Artists Enzo Camacho and Ami Lien turn a colonial symbol from Cambodia inside out.

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

Some faculty complain about the protests’ effect on students.

Three distinguished scientists on leaving academia to advance biomedical research

Can the College do more to prepare students for the real world?

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

Two tales of University greats—and an encounter with a Tiger