As he prepares to retire, Laurence Tribe retraces his path from teen immigrant math whiz to leading constitutional law scholar and admired professor
Experience
Leaders at Harvard in and out of the classroom tell their stories in the Experience series.
Amartya Sen’s nine-decade journey from colonial India to Nobel Prize and beyond
Jane Mansbridge talks about her 'jagged trajectory' to becoming one of the world’s leading scholars of democratic theory
Harvard Chan School AIDS pioneer Max Essex shares lessons from the frenzied search for answers about a once-mysterious ailment
Bruce Donoff, University’s longest-serving current dean, details lessons learned as he prepares to hand off helm of School of Dental Medicine
Paul Farmer on Partners In Health, ‘Harvard-Haiti,’ and making the lives of the poor the fight of his life
As an architect and a teacher, Toshiko Mori made her name by making statements
In a life of multiple pursuits, Howard Gardner has remained a student above all else
Family, history, and the 1960s all helped to shape Drew Faust, but it was illness that urged her forward
Pamela Silver took time to be a dreamer before science seized her imagination
Joe Nye found the adventure of a lifetime in the finer points of international power
Annette Gordon-Reed’s personal history, from East Texas to Monticello
In America, safe from Nazi power, Martin Karplus began on a Nobel Prize journey quickened by intuition
For Kathy Delaney-Smith, basketball is a mind game
George Church’s scientific drive
Michael Sandel’s passion for justice
Beyond the reach of monsters, Gerald Holton found infinite possibilities
Nitin Nohria’s exhilarating journey
Helen Vendler’s encounters with reverie
How Laurel Thatcher Ulrich caught up with the past
The literary adventures of Stephen Greenblatt
Melissa Franklin’s experimental zeal
Walter Willett’s data-honed wisdom
Steven Pinker’s history of thought
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot’s lessons in resilience
Martha Minow’s sense of purpose
For E.O. Wilson, wonders never cease