Alumna Forges Academic Future as Lilly Graduate Fellow
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Elspeth Currie ’16 continues her journey in academia by joining the prestigious Lilly Graduate Fellows Program, alongside pursuing a Ph.D. in early modern European history at Boston College.
Picking Tori’s Brain: Lessons from a Chemist, Climate Activist and Convalescent
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In April, the University of Colorado suspended all non-essential research and Tori Arau’s lab was appropriated for a new purpose: to measure air quality during the coronavirus shutdown.
Spiritual Transformation Through Physical Disability
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Hilary (Sherratt) Yancey’s longstanding interest in the philosophy of disability took on a new light when she gave birth to Jackson, a spunky boy with a number of disabilities. Suddenly, her life looked different from the journey she had once envisioned.
Making Space for Serendipity
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Sometimes it’s that chance encounter—with the Uber driver, airplane passenger or person who appears out of nowhere with a set of jumper cables when a car battery dies—that, like a railway switch, sends us off in a newfangled direction.