The Zika Virus
Genetically modified mosquitoes can protect us from deadly diseases, writes chemistry professor Marc Zimmer.
Features
Supermodels at the End of Time
Fashion photographer Miles Ladin '90 exhibits his work at Cummings Arts Center.
Bird Strike
When airplanes collide with flocks of birds the results can be fatal. One wildlife biologist spends her days at JFK Airport attempting to keep the sky safe for takeoff and landing.
Safari Tourism
Benjamin Gardner '93 writes about his time as an undergraduate student living with the Maasai, a semi-nomadic people inhabiting southern Kenya and northern Tanzania.
Notebook
A Whole New Way of Listening
The following is an excerpt from President Katherine Bergeron’s remarks at the 98th Commencement of Connecticut College.
Back roads of the American West
When anti-government protestors seized a federal building near Burns, Oregon, the press flocked to history professor Catherine McNicol Stock to seek understanding. An expert in domestic terrorism, Stock helps answer why these rural radicals attack.
King of the (tiny) castle
Tired of high living costs, Adam Glos ’09 made a giant change by building a small house.
ROBOTS
Robots have the potential not to replace humans, but go where humans can't go, says CS major Julia Proft '16.
Sex in the museum
Sarah Forbes '04 has turned an unlikely tenure at "New York's most provocative museum" into a revealing memoir, recently featured in Cosmopolitan and The Daily Beast.
Stark resident recalls civil rights activism
Emmy Award-winning documentarian Judy Richardson spent nearly a month at the College, visiting classes and screening her films.
The Al Qaeda Papers
The New York Times foreign correspondent and three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Rukmini Callimachi talks about uncovering the inner workings of Al Qaeda, revealing the deadly strategies of ISIS and how she talks to terrorists.
Flipbook
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