Retirement doesn’t always live up to the blissful media image.

Kim Ng, AB’90, has found her sweet spot as MLB’s senior vice president for baseball operations.

Former White House chef Sam Kass, LAB’98, AB’04, is serving up new recipes and improvements to food policy. Plus: Kass’s recipe for brussels sprouts Caesar salad.

Questions for geologist Susan Kidwell on her work in the emerging discipline of conservation paleobiology, teaching students out in the field, and what artists and scientists share.

Sara Paretsky, AM’69, MBA’77, PhD’77, on being the mystery genre’s “aging diva” and more.

Constitutional scholar Sonja R. West, JD’98, on press freedom and its future. 

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How Lucy Kaplansky, LAB’78, made a career of folk music.

Pioneering pathologist Nancy Warner, SB’44, MD’49, is helping other women scholars follow in her path.

Poet and novelist Ana Castillo, AM'79, on feminism, writing, and a momentous education.

Sociologist Howard S. Becker, PhB’46, AM’49, PhD’51, talks about his career studying deviance.

Leading cosmologist Wendy Freedman trains a telescopic lens on the biggest questions in the universe.