Saluting the 2025 Centennial Medalists

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

by Olivia Farrar

Vita: Mary Sears

Brief life of an oceanographer and patriot: 1905-1997

by Peter Denton

The Young T.S. Eliot

A rediscovery of the emerging poet

by Adam Kirsch

“The Risk of Inaction”

Opower works with electrical utilities to help curb energy consumption.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Line by Line

Poet and translator David Ferry

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

No Hoof, No Horse

How a farrier spends her days

by Nell Porter-Brown

Talent Behind the Wheel

A Harvard summa aims for NASCAR.

by Steve Potter

A Poet’s Return

For Joan Naviyuk Kane ’00, an abandoned island is a potent creative source.

by Melanie Wang

A Love Affair with Haiti

Amy Wilentz on her “touchstone and central obsession”

by Craig Lambert

Vita: Edward Everett Hale

Brief life of a science-minded writer and reformer: 1822-1909

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The Legal Olympian

Cass Sunstein and the modern regulatory state

by Lincoln Caplan