Alumni Profiles
Spotlight stories on alumni who are leading, innovating, and making a difference.
No More [Lovin’ That] Dirty Water
Enjoying the Boston Harbor’s Renaissance This Summer
by Nell Porter-Brown
Mexico Debates Marijuana
A new lead on stemming drug-related violence in Mexico
by Lydialyle Gibson
Encouraging Esperanto
Ruth Kevess-Cohen ’78 is boosting the international language online.
by Olivia Campbell
Parachute Specialist
Job counselor Dick Bolles ’50 keeps “chugging away.”
by Bailey Trela
Engineering a School’s Future
SEAS dean Frank Doyle shares insights.
by Jonathan Shaw , John S. Rosenberg
Rhetoric and Law
The double life of Richard Posner, America’s most contentious legal reformer
by Lincoln Caplan
Street Doctor
James O’Connell has spent 30 years caring for the homeless.
Chronicler of Two Americas
Now in his second century, the uncommon Daniel Aaron remains at work.
by Christoph Irmscher
Vita: Joseph T. Walker
Brief life of a scientific sleuth: 1908-1952
by Thomas W. Walker
“Once Upon a Time” in Translation
A publisher brings world literature to young Anglophones.
by Spencer Lee Lenfield
A Lover of All Things English
Erin Moore ’98 clarifies Britishisms and Americanisms in That’s Not English.
by Zara Zhang