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“I want to pay it forward. I want students to have opportunities.” Andres “Fluffy” Aguilar is a fellow at Pomona College, promoting a sense of community among high school students in the college's Academy for Youth Success.

Fully immersed in a career in politics, Brendan Cunningham ’15 would like to see other young people jump in too.

On the first day of his civil procedures course, students examined a case in which a judge spoke of the “sword of Damocles,” a reference that was perfectly clear to Teddy Altman ’15 but not, it seems, to the rest of his Boston College Law School class.

Teaching her intro to biology and intermediate genetics courses, Assistant Professor of Biology Natalie Nannas would find herself waving her hands a lot, and it wasn’t to capture her students’ attention.

Sanju Koirala ’19, who wants to be a role model for aspiring young scientists in her home country of Nepal, is starting a fellowship in computational neuroscience at Emory University.

When most people read Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness for class, they finish the novel, maybe write an essay about it, and leave it at that. Erica Ivins ’21, however, took the extra step and designed a research project around Conrad’s life, flew to England, and had a “one-on-one” with Conrad by examining his personal letters in London and Oxford.

Three faculty members, Professor of Economics Ann Owen, Professor of History Maurice Isserman, and Associate Professor of Religious Studies Quincy Newell – were featured in national media outlets on July 31.

Hamilton College President David Wippman has named Melissa Farmer Richards as vice president for communications and marketing, a new position for the College. The appointment is effective Sept. 9.

For Ishan Mainali, researching the 1960s and ’70s hippie movement in Nepal isn’t just an academic endeavor, but a personal one as well. Having grown up in Kathmandu, Nepal, Mainali is familiar with the hippie movement, though he says, the movement “is something that is neither really visible in public spaces nor is it talked about much.” Mainali hopes to start the conversation with his Emerson research project.

An exhibition of paintings by Professor of Art Bruce Muirhead opens Friday, Aug. 2, at the Arkell Museum in Canajoharie, New York.