Alumni Profiles


Slow and Steady

A Harvard Law School graduate completes marathons in all 50 states.  

by Jacob Sweet

American Solidarity

Cardinal Robert W. McElroy on how the Catholic Church has moved towards inclusivity.

by Nell Porter Brown

Quantum Leaps

Ballerina and quantum physicist Merritt Moore ’11 connects humans and machines.

by Nina Pasquini

Dialogue, not Debate

American University’s Lara Schwartz, J.D. ’98, teaches productive disagreement.

by Max J. Krupnick

Vacationing with a Purpose

New England “summer camps” for adults

by Nell Porter Brown

Leading with Care

Michael Hill strikes the right balance.

by Max J. Krupnick

A Dogged Observer

Novelist and psychiatrist Daniel Mason takes the long view.

by Max J. Krupnick

Diagnosis by Fiction

The “Healing Quartet,” by “Samuel Shem,” probes medicine—and life.

by Craig Lambert

Making Space

The natural history of Junko Yamamoto’s art and architecture

by Nina Pasquini

Winthrop Bell

Brief life of a philosopher and spy: 1884-1965

by Jason Bell