A member of the 1996 Olympic gold medal winning dream team, Grant Hill is one of the most accomplished basketball players of his generation. Following a legendary career at Duke University, Hill was the No. 3 overall pick in the 1994 NBA Draft. Despite being hampered by injuries, Hill played 19 seasons in the NBA…
Angela Duckworth is a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, a popular science author, and in 2013 was named a MacArthur Fellow. Duckworth is best known for her research on grit: a strength she defines as passion and perseverance for long-term goals…
In February 2021, John Harwood, award-winning journalist and expert in presidential politics, was named a White House Correspondent for CNN. But he began his journalism career much earlier, working as a copy-boy for the Washington Star while he was still a high school student in Maryland…
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Federal Express, Fred Smith, became a billionaire by simply revolutionizing the package transport system and consequently creating a new industry. A former marine and Vietnam War veteran, Smith founded FedEx with his own money in 1971…
The tech industry is filled with tales of university friendships that led to billion-dollar businesses. But for Niraj Shah and his partner Steve Conine, theirs is a union that brought furniture to the tech world and beyond. In 2002, the duo founded CSN Stores and its affiliated website, racksandstands.com, selling home and office goods from a spare bedroom in Boston…
Rashida Jones is a musician and actress, best-known for her roles in the smart, quirky TV comedies “The Office” and “Parks and Recreation.” Born in Los Angeles, California, Jones is the youngest daughter of media mogul Quincy Jones and actress Peggy Lipton…
Widely known as one of the “Fathers of the Internet,” Vint Cerf is a pioneering computer scientist who helped launch the world wide web. In 1973, while working as a professor at Stanford University, Cerf and a team member began the design of a revolutionary TCP/IP protocol suite, which essentially allows electronic devices to transmit data over long distances…
Renowned historian and legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed has earned acclaim as one of the most important American minds of our time. In 2009, she made headlines after becoming the first African American scholar to win the Pulitzer Prize for History…
Art Garfunkel is a singer, poet, and actor who rose to fame as half of the 1960s folk-rock duo Simon & Garfunkel. According to legend, Garfunkel met fellow musician Paul Simon while they were in the fourth grade and the duo later formed a band called Tom and Jerry, thinking it would be a good way to attract girls…
Alumni Spotlight is pleased to announce The Top 100 Harvard Alumni in Technology of 2021. The oldest higher education institution in the United States, Harvard University has been home to Continue Reading
