JoAnn Manson talks to former roommate and fellow physician Gloria Wu about her work on the Women’s Health Initiative — the largest study ever conducted on the effects of estrogen on post-menopausal women.

In 1975, Crimson reporter Sarah Crichton gave a critical review to a play written by classmate Peter Lawson Jones. Nearly fifty years later, Peter gets his revenge—and see who’s laughing now.

Psychiatrist and author Mark Epstein talks to classmate Amy Spies about how he stumbled into a lifelong fascination with Buddhism and meditation during his freshman year—thanks to a cool TA in purple bell-bottom cords and Karmu (né Edgar Warner), a local car mechanic and self-taught healer.

In conversation with Catherine Puglisi, Kim Hays confesses all about how a lifetime of international travel led to murder—and literary fame.

Cora Yamamoto and Gary Mathews have loved dance ever since Laurence Welk was ‘sacred time’ in both their households. These classmates talk about Cora’s love for tango and how this dance form ‘is like life.’

Sarah Crichton talks to classmate Tom Yellin in a revealing two-part interview. In Part 1 she talks about her time at Harvard and her journey after college through the literary world in New York as a writer, editor and publisher. In Part 2 she returns to reveal something else, something crucial she left out of the first conversation, and that she has never talked about publicly before.

Nancy Sato talks to Louise Gessel about the origins of her lifelong fight for equity, starting in the athletics arena at Harvard.

David Hellerstein talks with classmate and fellow Clevelander Joy Horowitz about his wild ride as a psychedelic maven—how his practice in psychiatry has radically evolved over the past 40 years from psychoanalysis to brain imaging to personalized therapeutics.

Lloyd Blankfein talks to Tom Yellin about his PTSD from Goldman Sachs, his feelings of panic over his Expos writing assignment freshman year, and his overall assessment of the global financial crisis of 2008.

Dennis Corbett talks to classmate Yan Chow about what it takes to become an art detective — and why the value of a piece of art can be so elusive.

Brigid Williams talks to David Goldbloom about her lifelong love of architecture.

Mark Bransdorfer and Robert McIver remind us that you live as long as somebody speaks your name. Here, to keep his memory alive, they remember classmate Jeff Wright who died too soon.

Martha “Marni” Sandweiss talks with Susan Hodara about her lifelong obsession as a historian—and explains how one archival photograph opened up her understanding of the underpinnings of the West.

Greg and Gregg Stone remind us about life’s doppelgängers — and how two guys with the same name might have a few things in common beyond Harvard.

Wade Davis, the acclaimed ethnobotanist and National Geographic explorer-in-residence, can pinpoint the precise moment from his boyhood that created his obsession with the anthropology of cultural differences. “I remember coming alive at your bar mitzvah,” he tells his old school chum from Montreal and Harvard classmate, David Goldbloom, for this episode of PasstheMic75.

Writing teacher Mark Leib talks to classmate Joy Horowitz about the bruising realities of making a living as a writer these days — and the bliss of having his first novel published.

Donald Lurye talks to fellow physician Yan Chow about the surprising twists and turns of a life well-lived, including a return to the clarinet.

Michael Bromwich talks to Quincy House roommate David Goldbloom about his life’s work in the criminal justice system.

Phil Lazebnik talks about ancient Greece, Harpo Marx, and the importance of musical comedy with David Goldbloom, the antic star of Mad About Mintz, Phil’s fabled undergraduate musical whose meaning continues to elude them both.

James Kaye Doane talks to old pal Yan Chow about how serendipity and gratitude have defined his life path. And he answers the $64,000 question about Costco.