Washington Magazine

Outside of Miami, Greater Boston boasts one of the largest Haitian-American populations in the United States. When local community leaders told Boston attorney Vikas S. Dhar, AB ’99, of Haiti’s sexual violence and trafficking issues, his law firm took action.

For Jenny Murphy, BFA ’09, developing an entry for a sculpture competition — a rite of passage for students at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts — helped define her future as an entrepreneur and ­community arts leader.

Making history interesting to teenagers is a daily challenge for Eric Cochran, AB ’98, chair of the social studies department at Lindbergh High School in St. Louis County.

Although now an Emmy- and Peabody-winner, sports television producer Michael Hughes, BSBA ’01, got his start on a much smaller stage. While a student at Washington ­University, he hosted and filmed bits for What’s Up, WashU?, a low-budget show for on-campus station WUTV. Initially recruited by a fellow member of the football team because he was “loud […]

Alumna Jazzy Danziger, AB ’07, received the 2012 ­ Brittingham Prize in Poetry for her book, Darkroom (University of Wisconsin Press, 2012).

Tom and Colleen Ferguson, co-chairs of the WU Club of San Francisco Young Professionals Group, discuss the enjoyment they get from volunteering.

Burton M. Wheeler, professor emeritus of English and of religious studies and former dean of the College of Arts & ­Sciences, died Feb. 17, 2012.

Crickette Sanz, assistant professor of anthropology, and David Morgan, conservation and research fellow at the Lincoln Park Zoo and Wildlife Conservation Society, are co-directors of the Goualougo Triangle Ape Project. Their organization’s mission is to promote the long-term conservation of Congo’s great apes and ape habitat.

Law Professor John Inazu suggests that one way to reclaim the right of assembly is to raise it as an independent claim in constitutional litigation.

In fall 2011, the Rev. Dr. Earl K. Holt republished his biography, William Greenleaf Eliot: Conservative Radical, to honor the 200th anniversary of Eliot’s 1811 birth.