Saluting the 2025 Centennial Medalists

Four alumni of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences are honored.

by Olivia Farrar

Potholes, Pensions, and Politics

Houston’s new mayor, HLS alumnus Sylvester Turner, promises a “transformative” tenure.

by Michael Hardy

Champ Lyons

Brief life of an innovative surgeon: 1907-1965

by Martin L. Dalton , Laurence A. Lyons

Mexico Debates Marijuana

A new lead on stemming drug-related violence in Mexico

by Lydialyle Gibson

Encouraging Esperanto

Ruth Kevess-Cohen ’78 is boosting the international language online.

by Olivia Campbell

Parachute Specialist

Job counselor Dick Bolles ’50 keeps “chugging away.”

by Bailey Trela

Rhetoric and Law

The double life of Richard Posner, America’s most contentious legal reformer

by Lincoln Caplan

Street Doctor

James O’Connell has spent 30 years caring for the homeless.

Chronicler of Two Americas

Now in his second century, the uncommon Daniel Aaron remains at work.

by Christoph Irmscher

Vita: Joseph T. Walker

Brief life of a scientific sleuth: 1908-1952

by Thomas W. Walker

“Once Upon a Time” in Translation

A publisher brings world literature to young Anglophones.

by Spencer Lee Lenfield