Alumni Profiles
Spotlight stories on alumni who are leading, innovating, and making a difference.
A Harvard Economist Probes the Affordable Housing Crisis
From understanding gender pay gaps to the housing crisis, Rebecca Diamond’s research aims to improve lives.
Moving Pictures, Hard Questions
It was a rare rainy night in Los Angeles. Filling up his tank at a local gas station, a man noticed the silhouette of another man, just beyond...
Venerable, Valuable Volumes
With its muted hues and pine floorboards, the store resembles a medieval library with a blinking Apple iMac on the counter. Inventory at James...
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...