Students & Alumni
Saluting the 2025 Centennial Medalists
Four alumni of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences are honored.
by Olivia Farrar
Henry Knowles Beecher
Brief life of a late-blooming ethicist: 1904-1976
by Jack El-Hai
A Workable Democracy
The optimistic project of Justice Stephen Breyer
by Lincoln Caplan
Reel Revolution
How Black Journal raised the country's consciousness, and opened Kent Garrett's eyes to television's potential
by Sophia Nguyen
Harmonic Progression
Composer Robert Kyr embraces love, peace, and nature.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Labor Litigator
Attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan takes on the app economy.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
The Lawyer Librettist
In the “final phase” of her life, Cerise Lim Jacobs builds herself an oeuvre.
by Sophia Nguyen
The Happy Misanthrope
A playwright making those overlooked by history into lore
by Olivia Schwob
Reports from the “New America”
Latino-American journalist Julio Ricardo Varela
by Nell Porter-Brown
John Adams at Harvard
What he learned and what he made of it
by Richard Alan Ryerson
Alan Seeger
Brief live of a premonitory poet: 1888-1916
by Dick Friedman