Alumni Profiles
Spotlight stories on alumni who are leading, innovating, and making a difference.
The Young T.S. Eliot
A rediscovery of the emerging poet
by Adam Kirsch
“The Risk of Inaction”
Opower works with electrical utilities to help curb energy consumption.
by Nell Porter-Brown
Line by Line
Poet and translator David Ferry
by Spencer Lee Lenfield
No Hoof, No Horse
How a farrier spends her days
by Nell Porter-Brown
Harvard Portrait: Vijay Iyer
Harvard’s first tenured professor and jazz-artist-in-residence.
by Sophia Nguyen
Talent Behind the Wheel
A Harvard summa aims for NASCAR.
by Steve Potter
A Poet’s Return
For Joan Naviyuk Kane ’00, an abandoned island is a potent creative source.
by Melanie Wang
A Love Affair with Haiti
Amy Wilentz on her “touchstone and central obsession”
by Craig Lambert
Vita: Edward Everett Hale
Brief life of a science-minded writer and reformer: 1822-1909
by
The Legal Olympian
Cass Sunstein and the modern regulatory state
by Lincoln Caplan