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For This Poet, AI is a Writing Partner

Sasha Stiles trained a chatbot on her manuscripts. Now, her poems rewrite themselves.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Healthy eating through soup

Teresa Chen ’64 promotes healthy soup-making and -eating.

by Krysten A. Keches

Gamma-ray bursts reveal the oldest star yet discovered

A star more than 13 billion years old

by Jonathan Shaw

Helping young musicians succeed

Amy Nathan ’67 aims to help kids over musical rough patches with The Young Musician’s Survival Guide.

by Krysten A. Keches

New York Film Festival program director Richard Peña

Richard Peña ’75 is program director of the New York Film Festival.

by Craig Lambert

Unicycling philanthropists

Philip Wharton ’82 and daughter Sophie ’11 pedal 100 miles for Afghan and Pakistani children.

by Krysten A. Keches

A risk-management plan to help prevent financial crises

Financial regulation, moral hazard, and the end of “too big to fail”

by David A. Moss

Shared Interest Groups

Forthcoming Shared Interest Group events

Baby boomers as volunteers

Alumni take up community service

by Nell Porter-Brown

The erosion of privacy in the Internet era

The erosion of privacy in the Internet era

by Jonathan Shaw

Amelia Lester named New Yorker managing editor

Amelia Lester ’05 is a former Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow at Harvard Magazine.