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Medicine & Health

Lasting leadership

Roy Vagelos, MD, and Diana Vagelos
In the 1960s and ’70s, P. Roy Vagelos, MD, brought together scientists in biology and biomedicine from across the university and created two pioneering training programs. Over a half-century later, MSTP and DBBS continue to train physician-scientists, improve human health and advance medicine.
Performing Arts

Winning an unconventional pageant

What started as a chance to try something new with her mom led Tiffany Yao, BFA ’19, into another competition that was far less conventional. Here, in her own words, is how she became a beauty queen.
Students

Fostering diversity — of people and ideas

­Chancellor ­Andrew D. Martin ­facilitates a ­discussion of ­Nadine Strossen’s book, HATE: Why We Should ­Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship, with first-year students.
The importance of diversity goes beyond educational access and the makeup of our student body, faculty and staff. Preparing students for engaged citizenship in a diverse world and in our democracy is a fundamental responsibility of our university.
Art & Design

The healing power of drawing

Leah Nixon, BFA ’11, survived a construction accident that severed her spinal cord. Illustrating the children’s book “Best Day Ever,” became part of her recovery.
Business & Entrepreneurship

Learning from the best

David Rogier earned a degree in political science in 2005, and has never let himself — or us — stop learning. In 2015, he created MasterClass as an online school for the rest of our lives.
Campus & Community

Creating ‘Fellowship’

Jason Green and his father, the Rev. Dr. Gerard Green.
How Jason Green, AB ’03, went from White House counsel to documentary filmmaker, and why he’s just begun to tell the stories we need to hear in the way we need to hear them.