In 1587, a band of settlers — 115 men, women, and children — founded the first English colony in the New World, on Roanoke Island in what is now North […]
Alumni Notes: May 31, 2018
May 31, 2018 Combining passions for climbing and research: Luke Timmerman at the top of the world. At 6:25 a.m. on May 22, an exultant Luke Timmerman (2005-06) reached the […]
Alumni Notes: April 23, 2018
April 23, 2018 Ibiba DonPedro (2001-02), an award-winning journalist and activist in Nigeria, has just published four books on the country’s Niger Delta region. The books, she writes, “capture the […]
Alumni Notes: March 9, 2018
Rosalia Omungo (2016-17) has been promoted to managing editor/TV at KBC, Kenya’s national broadcasting system, putting her in charge of special projects, including health, environment, science, and features. “It is […]
Alumni Notes: February 8, 2018
Yves Sciama on a reporting trip to Senegal. “A bunch of new things are happening to me,” writes Yves Sciama (2013-14) from just outside Grenoble, France, adding (with a wink […]
Alumni Notes: January 18, 2018
Jeanne Lenzer (2006-07) has been getting all sorts of attention for her new book “The Danger Within Us: America’s Untested, Unregulated Medical Device Industry and One Man’s Battle to Survive […]