Students & Alumni
Saluting the 2025 Centennial Medalists
Four alumni of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences are honored.
by Olivia Farrar
Leading Man
A Broadway actor on the “true spark of theater”
by Nell Porter-Brown
Harvard Portrait: Abigail Donovan and Laura Prager
The pediatric psychiatrists’ book depicts emergency-room experiences with mentally ill children.
The Sage of Tree Frog Lane
Philip Slater has happily progressed from fame to obscurity.
by Craig Lambert
Detective in Pop Culture
Bob Egan finds the original venues of iconic images.
by Craig Lambert
Please Touch the Art
Jennifer Rubell makes art to touch, crawl into, or even drink and eat.
by Craig Lambert
Grill It!
Cookbook author “Doc” Willoughby ’70 makes a Thai-inspired sauce.
Soldiers’ Biographer
Rachel Cox ’74 pays written tribute to an uncle and his friends with Into Dust and Fire: Five Young Americans Who Went First to Fight the Nazi Army.
by Jean Martin
Students’ Teacher
George West ’72 and his students foster oral history at Little Rock Central High.
by Isabel Ruane
Paradise Found
The dazzling beauty and strangely human behavior of one of the world’s most diverse bird families.
by Nell Porter-Brown
Press Women
Ellen Faran ’73 and Gita Manaktala ’87 advance knowledge through publishing.
by Katherine Xue