Explore Stories

 Jeffrey Palmer ’77 won the McClintock Prize for Plant Genetics and Genome Studies.

John Freeman ’96 launched an eponymous literary journal in October. 

Interested in brushing up on your Latin this summer by reading medieval texts full of action, adventure, and theology?

A 1939 fashion statement gets its due.

Helen Fox ’94 seeks to save the world’s coral reefs

After a near-fatal car accident, Arthur Bryant ’76, wife Nancy Johnson, and son Wally spent an emotional four years recovering. 

Did you know that The Rolling Stones extorted millions of dollars from Bill Gates to market Windows 95?

Swarthmore’s mission is true in any language.

Staying afloat is one of life’s greatest challenges. Taken literally or metaphorically, I’ve found the solution: swimming.

Melissa Tier ’14, Swarthmore’s sustainability coordinator, keeps a copy of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring on her shelf.

“The history of life on Earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings. To a large extent, the physical form and the habits of the Earth’s vegetation and its animal life have been molded by the environment. Considering the whole span of earthly time, the opposite effect, in which life actually modifies its surroundings, has been relatively slight,” Carson wrote in words first published in 1962.