News Archive
Rolling with the Punches: McKenzie Smith ’23 on Co-op
When planning for Co-op, the last thing you’d expect is that a deadly virus spreads throughout the entire globe causing businesses, restaurants, and cafes to close; concert tours to come to a halt; and major events such as France’s Cannes Film...
The Opportunity to Save Many Lives
The Talmud says to save one life is equivalent to saving the entire world. All of us through our actions …
Experimental Film by Catalina Jordan Alvarez in List
Online art publication Hyperallergic reached out to artists, filmmakers, and Hyperallergic contributors to compile a list of experimental film and video art they're sharing in their networks to combat "cabin fever." As an alternative to everything...
Larry Pearl ’55 on the Real History of Fair Housing
Larry Pearl '55 spent nearly 40 years working in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under 10 HUD Secretaries from 1961 until 1998. He is the feature of a recent podcast by TrailBlazers Impact (embedded below). Larry offers a...
Open-Access JSTOR Materials Accessible to the Public
The online academy resource is working to expand its amount of free content available to students and alumni with access to JSTOR. In a tweet sent on March 18, JSTOR has announced that it has over 6,000 ebooks and over 150 journals which are now...
Gabby Loomis-Amrhein ’17 Receives First Book Deal
On Wednesday, March 16, 2020, Recenter Press announced that Gabby Loomis-Amrhein, class of 2017, has been welcomed as one of their new forthcoming authors! Gabby's poems have previously been featured in the Fall 2019 Issue of the Recenter Press...
Professor Jennifer Grubbs on NPR
Jennifer Grubbs, visiting assistant professor of Anthropology, was featured on NPR's All Things Considered which aired on March 19, 2020. In her interview for the segment, "Ideas For Family Diversions For Parents Working From Home," Dr. Grubbs talks...
Shakedown by Leilah Weinraub ’03 Featured in Column
Leilah Weinraub '03 may be known primarily by the fashion crowd as former creative director and CEO of Hood by Air, but she also is a filmmaker. Fifteen years in the making, her documentary Shakedown focuses on the Shakedown Angels, an all-Black...
Article by Anna Danahy ’95: PUC Chair Gladys Brown Dutrieuille Says Pennsylvania Utilities Stay On
Gladys Brown Dutrieuille, Chair of The Pennsylvania Utility Commission (PUC), has stated that PUC “says companies can’t turn off customers’ utilities during the COVID-19 pandemic” – writes Anna Danahy ’95 for State Impact Pennsylvania. According to...
Essay by Eric Rhodes ’16 Included in a New Book
Eric Michael Rhodes has announced that his chapter, "Midwestern 'Mobocracy': The Emergence of Labor Politics and Racial Exclusion in Cincinnati, 1829–1836" will be included in the following forthcoming book from Hastings College Press - to be...