Alumna Forges Academic Future as Lilly Graduate Fellow

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

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.

Called to Move

DEBORAH SULLIVAN ’20 | Major: social impact (Pike Honors) | Hometown: Beverly, MA | Describes her life “like Tetris, with all these little pieces falling into place.”

Spiritual Transformation Through Physical Disability

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

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.