A collaboration about a collaboration: Pagan Kennedy, left, and Karen Brown. “The Great God of Depression,” the gripping story of the improbable collaboration between a brain scientist and an acclaimed author to come to terms with their shared mental illness, is a five-part podcast that can be found at Radiotopia’s Showcase page (or wherever you […]
Alumni Notes: June 22, 2018
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 Carolina. Three years later, their governor returned from a resupply mission to England only to find that they’d vanished with barely a trace. What happened […]
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 summit of Mount Everest. After writing about advances in cancer research for 15 years, and climbing mountains almost that long, he decided to combine 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 different facets of the region’s tragic narrative, especially the discord and disruptive impact of the production of crude oil on the lives of the people […]
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 exciting as well as challenging,” she writes from Nairobi, “because of the perception that KBC has been biased towards government. But we are progressing. We […]
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 emoji), “Some of them may actually have some influence on our beloved profession — which tends to be very nationally insular.” On Jan. 29, Yves […]