Alumni Profiles
Flocking Together
A former educator takes on one last big project: sheep farming
by Nell Porter-Brown
Mike Schur on the Good Life
A humorous guide to ethics and philosophy, from the sitcom creator
by Stuart Miller
Looking for the Real Stan Lee
Biographer Abraham Riesman plumbs the dark mysteries of the Marvel auteur
by Dan Kelly
Damage and Repair
Textile artist Celia Pym knits meaning into mended clothes.
by Lydialyle Gibson
From Punk to the Silver Screen
The ingenious, intuitive film scores of Carter Burwell ’77
by Nicolas Rapold
Notes on Doctoring
Michael Stanley and the covenant of medicine
by Lydialyle Gibson
Math Professor Lauren Williams Explores New Ground
Williams feels at home researching underexplored subjects.
by Jacob Sweet
Reporting, with an M.B.A.
Charles Duhigg unpacks how individuals and organizations work at war, on Wall Street, and in Silicon Valley
by Jonathan Shaw
Life After Brain Injury
Alumna Carolyn Gold on finding a “new self” after West Nile encephalitis
by Lydialyle Gibson
The Food Waste Problem
Emily Broad Leib combats wasted food worldwide.
by Jacob Sweet
The Art of the Portrait Painter
Jason Bouldin makes the intangible tangible.
by Lydialyle Gibson