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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Why Harvard Medical School is training physicians to think more like coaches