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Among the quoted: Toni Morrison, Amanda Gorman, Jill Lepore, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Annette Gordon-Reed, Drew Faust, Paul Farmer, and Gish Jen.

Photo illustration by Judy Blomquist/Harvard Staff

The pages of the Gazette are rich with research, history, analysis, debate — and voices. Over the years, we’ve heard from scholars, researchers, scientists, artists, and authors, of course, but also soldiers, activists, nurses, even a race-car driver. After taking a look back, we wanted to share what we found. This collection is necessarily and intentionally incomplete, and also very much alive. Read on, and then come back in a month to see whose inspired moment has been added to the list.

— Claire Messud, author, Turns of narrative

— Jeff Koons, artist, High king of middlebrow

— Joshua Greene, psychologist, “Deep pragmatism” as a moral engine

— Daniel Lieberman, evolutionary biologist, How fast can we run?

— Robert Waldinger, psychiatrist, Good genes are nice, but joy is better

— Jill Lepore, historian, The art of the matter

— Kevin Young, poet, Kevin Young and a unified theory of Black culture — and himself

— Terry Buchmiller, surgeon and musician, Leaving a beautiful scar

— Stephen Hawking (1942-2018), physicist, Hawking at Harvard

— J.K. Rowling, novelist, The fringe benefits of failure, and the importance of imagination

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, novelist, Adichie: Protect and value the truth

— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, historian, Experience

— Sherry Turkle, psychologist, At PBK ceremony, a call to empathy

— Teju Cole, novelist and critic, Author will urge creative-writing students beyond genre limits

— Toni Morrison (1931-2019), novelist, Good, but never simple

— Arthur Brooks, social scientist, Happiness scholar cites three ways to start healing rifts

— Paul Farmer (1959-2022), physician and co-founder of Partners In Health, Experience

— Steven Pinker, psychologist, Anecdotes aren’t data

— Randall Kennedy, legal scholar, If Randall Kennedy ran the world

— Lauren Groff, novelist, in response to question, “Can you talk about your process and how you manage work and family?”, Alienation proves fertile state of mind for Lauren Groff

— Michael Pollan, author and journalist, Michael Pollan digs deeper into drugs

— Marylène Altieri, curator, Becoming Julia Child

— Richard Schwartz, psychiatrist, When love and science double date

— Matthew Aucoin, composer, Beethoven at 250

— Amanda Gorman, inaugural U.S. youth poet laureate, The poetic perspective

— Daniel Kahneman, psychologist, Negotiating the irrational

— Orlando Patterson, sociologist, Is 80 the new 60?

— Kevin Birmingham, author, Rocky path to publication for most dangerous book

— Jane Mansbridge, political scientist, Experience

— Greg Galeazzi, veteran, Between Army and Medical School, a stop in hell

— Raj Chetty, economist, The personal side of economics

— U.S. Rep. John Lewis (1940-2020), Facing the future, Lewis and Faust see reason for hope

— Xiao-Li Meng, statistician, 2 early vaccination surveys worse than worthless thanks to “big data paradox“

— Michael J. Sandel, philosopher, Toppling the myth of meritocracy

— Jaclyn Corin, March for Our Lives co-founder, Mass shootings reignite youth gun control push

— Timothy Rebbeck, Professor of Cancer Prevention, Bringing the cancer fight back down to earth

— Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr., historian, African-American folklore inspires meeting of the minds

— Krzysztof Gajos, computer scientist, When will a robot write a novel?

— Lawrence Katz, labor economist, “I quit” is all the rage. Blip or sea change?

— Joe Allen, public health expert, Is your home making you sick?

— Jonathan Franzen, novelist, Some choice words for liberals

— Emily Wilson, classicist, New chapter for “The Odyssey“

— Mary Tenney, nurse, 14 nurses on life and work during COVID

— Larry Bacow, Harvard president, Larry Bacow’s listening tour

— Min Jin Lee, novelist, Researching and writing history

— Max Essex, pioneering AIDS researcher, Experience

— Deirdre Barrett, psychologist, What pandemic dreams may come

— Robert Paarlberg, author, Only eat organic? You’re paying too much, and it’s not worth it

— Lawrence D. Bobo, sociologist, The fire this time

— Anthony Lowe, electronics technician, Global helium shortage slams brakes at Harvard labs

— Junot Díaz, author, Old masks, new face

— Haben Girma, first deafblind woman to graduate from Harvard Law School, One L, only harder

— Virgil Abloh (1980-2021), designer, Ideas (and sneakers) were in the air

— Yo-Yo Ma, cellist, “I want to make it felt“

— Lawrence Summers, economist and former Harvard president, Health as an economic engine

— Ruben Reyes Jr., launched student Latinx literary magazine, A writer’s journey

— Art Spiegelman, cartoonist,  Fathers, killers, God, and “Maus”

— Cass R. Sunstein, studies behavioral economics, Why do some bands rocket when others sputter out?

— Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Radcliffe dean, Slavery probe: Harvard’s ties inseparable from rise

— Douglas Melton, stem cell researcher, Breakthrough within reach for diabetes scientist and patients nearest to his heart

—Schuyler Bailar, first openly transgender swimmer in NCAA Division I, Schuyler Bailar races toward his authentic self

— Samantha Maltais, first Wampanoag to attend Harvard Law, Student of history makes history

— Sergio Lopez, veteran, A Navy SEAL who cheated death finds his voice

— Marty Baron, Washington Post editor, The danger of “misinformation, disinformation, delusions, and deceit“

— Anna Precht, director of McLean Hospital’s 3East Boys Intensive Program, Wait — what if Will Smith was just being a man?

— Daniel Gilbert, social psychologist, Know why conversations either seem too short or too long?

— Marion Dierickx, researcher, Life on the ice

— E.O. Wilson (1929-2021), biologist, Experience

— Drew Faust, former Harvard president, Experience

— Jane Kamensky, historian, When abortion wasn’t a legal issue

— Angela Merkel, chancellor of Germany, Merkel advises graduates: Break the walls that hem you in

— Jay Ulfelder, political scientist, We don’t need a civil war to be in serious trouble

— Denis Hayes, Earth Day co-founder, How Earth Day gave birth to environmental movement

— Hrag Pailian, researcher, When a bird brain tops Harvard students on a test

— Robert Truog, bioethicist, AI revolution in medicine

— Susanna Siegel, philosopher, How death shapes life

— Gish Jen, novelist, Who is your favorite literary hero, villain?

— Laurie Anderson, artist, O Superwoman

— I. Glenn Cohen, law professor, One thing to change: Question that status quo

— David H. Rosmarin, psychologist, Soothing advice for mad America

— Michael Bronski, author of “A Queer History of the United States,” Stonewall then and now

— Paul Reville, former Massachusetts secretary of education, Time to fix American education with race-for-space resolve

— Eddie S. Glaude Jr., chair of Department of African American Studies at Princeton University, Black progress, white anger

— Elizabeth D. Samet, West Point scholar, How “Good War” wasn’t all that good

— Maria Tatar, John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Genuine heroines

— Suzannah Omonuk, poet, A poem for Venus

— Irina Klyagin, archivist, Prized manuscript — and valuable lesson — unearthed in Soviet archive

— Aurora Straus, professional race car driver, Life in the fast lane

— Philip Deloria, historian, A colorful figure

— Arthur Goldhammer, translator, In translation, he found his raison d’être

— I-Min Lee, epidemiologist, Gorge today, sweat tomorrow? That’s not how it works.

— Jim Hammitt, professor of economics and decision sciences, Sailing alone, under the stars, and fast

Much depends on whether Russian losing streak continues; even then negotiations will be tricky, fraught, Putin expert says

Namwali Serpell’s novel explores reality, memory, and race, class of broken family after death of child

“We don’t just do astronomy, we build the instruments. This makes us tremendously desirable as a builder of telescope technology,” said Lisa Kewley, describing the center’s many strengths.