Bryan Marquard

When Dr. Pardue and her MIT colleague Nancy Hopkins decided in the mid-1990s to take on gender bias at the school, "I knew the world had shifted," Hopkins said.

Russ Morash was a young employee in 1961 at what was then WGBH-TV — known as educational television in those years — when Julia Child called to schedule an appearance to discuss her book “Mastering the Art of French Cooking.”

Bridging the generational divide from old school powerbrokers to today's forward-looking philanthropists, Jack Connors spent decades helping shape

The cascading influence of Jack Connors, say those who knew him well, extended both backward and forward in time — from careers he nurtured in the

Some patients who credited Dr. Roman W. DeSanctis with keeping them alive had names known around the world: Boston Celtics coach Red Auerbach, diplomat Henry Kissinger, actor John Wayne.

Henry Lee and the fledgling Friends of the Public Garden civic group he led faced impossible odds in the 1970s when they fought a plan to build a

Ms. Robinson took up cabaret singing in her late 60s and performed regularly at Club Cafe.

As head team physician for the New England Patriots , Dr. Mark Price watched the violence of contact sports up close as he stood on the sidelines, ready

One day in 1984, Pamela Berger was in Harvard's Widener Library finishing research on her book “The Goddess Obscured” when she tripped across the nugget of a story that spurred her imagination beyond the printed page.

Long before fame made her name recognizable throughout the ballet world, Michaela Mabinty DePrince was dismissively called “Orphan 27″ — designated