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.
Making a Case against the Courts
How will Americans know that their Supreme Court is truly dedicated to interpreting the Constitution as the Founding Fathers would wish?...
Fighting for Afghanistan
The sound of a bomb detonating breaks the stillness of Kandahar’s morning hours. To Sarah Chayes ’84, in her office in the small...
Imaging Public Health
Images are integral to the way human beings understand the world around them. As a physician and a photographer, Judith R. Peterson ’82...
Helping Out, Abroad and at Home
En route to the math placement exam, Annette Ghee ’83 met classmate Burt Hamner. Each one thought the other cute… and they were...
The fight to preserve biodiversity in the American West
Gilbert Gale uses all tools at his disposal to fight invasive plants in Western grasslands.
Brief life of public thinker Stuart Chase
On a chilly autumn day in 1911, Stuart Chase entered the Boston Public Library and, finding a seat in the economics section, composed a personal...