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A Queen of Comedy

Catherine Cohen ’13 thinks it’s tough to be the voice of her generation

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Public Service in a Self-Interested Age

Woodrow Wilson Award recipient Anthony D. Romero ’87, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, spoke at Alumni Day on the meaning of public service and the importance of acknowledging history.

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Small Miracles

Surgeon Bill Peranteau ’97 operates on fetuses in the womb. Now he’s studying whether gene defects can be fixed prenatally, too.

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New Music, Old Themes

Julia Wolfe *12’s experiments with sound span the traditional and the trippy

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Letters to Emily

After 60 Years, Firestone Library Reveals a Poet’s Secret Life

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To LIFE

The University Art Museum exhibits decades’ worth of images from one of the world’s most influential magazines

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Reckoning With Wealth

These millennials have privilege — and they don’t want it

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Lives Lived and Lost: An Appreciation

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Lives: Jessica Eileen Melore ’03

She Was Determined Not to Delay Life

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Lives: Jean Edward Smith ’54

He Reassessed Reputations and Changed Perceptions

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Lives: Sidney Verba *59

Known for His Humanity, Not Just His Brilliance

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Lives: William H. Greider ’58

A Journalist Whose Heart Lay Beyond the Beltway

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Lives: Steven Gubser ’94 *98

A Star Physicist and Explorer of Life

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Lives: Henry Urbach ’84 *95

An Architect Who Never Stopped Experimenting

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Lives: Emile Karafiol ’55

His Personal Project Grew to Preserve History

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Lives: Lee Iacocca *46

He Saved Chrysler With Charisma, Optimism, and Smarts

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Lives: Paul Volcker ’49

He Had an Iron Will and Unquestioned Integrity

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Lives: Alan Brinkley ’71

The Historian’s Historian Had a Wide Reach

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Lives: W.S. Merwin ’48

A Poet and Gardener and a Modern-Day Thoreau

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Lives: William D. Ruckelshaus ’55

They Called Him Mr. Clean