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Decoding Extinction
Steve Wang

An NSF grant awarded to Professor of Statistics Steve Wang will help him, his students, and a recent alumna decode why the Earth may be entering a modern extinction. Read More: Decoding Extinction

  • Brandon Ekweonu '20 Named Newman Civic Fellow
  • Listen: Jackson Roberts '19 Has Career Day for Garnet Baseball
  • Enhanced Campus Navigation System for Blind Among Most Sophisticated at U.S. Schools
  • Poet Julia Bouwsma ’02 Returns for Reading, Student Poetry Contest
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Watch: President Valerie Smith

Video: [24 min 40 sec]

President Valerie Smith delivers her presidential address during the ceremony to install her as the 15th president of Swarthmore College.

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Faculty Lectures & Featured Events

Listen: Philosopher Krista Thomason on Child Soldiers, Moral Responsibility

Krista Thomason

Thomason argues that child soldiers suffer moral injury and their feelings of responsibility are part of the process of redrawing the boundaries of their moral selves. Read More: Listen: Philosopher Krista Thomason on Child Soldiers, Moral Responsibility

Audio: [38 min 44 sec]

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Listen: Anthropologist Kwame Edwin Otu on Normative Collusions and Amphibious Evasions

Kwame Edwin Otu

Otu, an assistant professor at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies, discusses the contested politics of queer self-making in neoliberal Ghana. Read More: Listen: Anthropologist Kwame Edwin Otu on Normative Collusions and Amphibious Evasions

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Sources & Experts

Andrew Ward

Have questions about strategies for enhancing individuals' control of eating, smoking, aggression, or obsessive thoughts? Psychologist Andrew Ward is an expert on self-regulation, negotiation and conflict resolution, and social psychology and social perception.

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Music

Premieres of Long-Lost Music, Iconic Film Tell New Story of Nazi-Occupied Poland
Barbara Milewski

Associate Professor of Music Barbara Milewski (left) and Mackenzie Pierce '11 are bringing new attention to Polish composer Roman Palester's life and works. Read More: Premieres of Long-Lost Music, Iconic Film Tell New Story of Nazi-Occupied Poland

  • Student Conductors Take Spotlight at Chamber Orchestra First Editions
  • Watch: Interdisciplinary Collaboration Provides Opera with Context and Color
  • Balancing Act
  • Music Professor James Freeman to Debut New Orchestra This Weekend
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