Alumni Profiles
Spotlight stories on alumni who are leading, innovating, and making a difference.
Preserving the History of Jim Crow Era Safe Havens
Architectural historian Catherine Zipf is building a database of Green Book sites.
Brief life of oceanographer Mary Sears, by Peter Denton
Brief life of an oceanographer and patriot: 1905-1997
by Peter Denton
T.S. Eliot as a Harvard student
A rediscovery of the emerging poet
by Adam Kirsch
Opower's Alex Laskey and Daniel Yates want to transform the electric industry
Opower works with electrical utilities to help curb energy consumption.
Poet and translator David Ferry, profiled by Spencer Lenfield
Poet and translator David Ferry
How a Harvard farrier spends her days
How a farrier spends her days
Profile of Vijay Iyer
Harvard’s first tenured professor and jazz-artist-in-residence.
Racer Patrick Staropoli strives for Nascar
A Harvard summa aims for NASCAR.
by Steve Potter
To poet Joan Naviyuk Kane ’00, abandoned King Island is a potent creative source
For Joan Naviyuk Kane ’00, an abandoned island is a potent creative source.
by Melanie Wang
"Farewell, Fred Voodoo" by Amy Wilentz continues her long coverage of Haiti
Amy Wilentz on her “touchstone and central obsession”
Brief life of writer-reformer Edward Everett Hale, by Jeffrey Mifflin
Brief life of a science-minded writer and reformer: 1822-1909
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