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05/18/2020

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08/27/2019

Welcome to Swarthmore, Class of 2023! Check out our latest issue either online or on campus.

FeaturesSeeing Humanity Summer 2019In health-focused fields, an appreciation for art and culture, language and literature connects professionals to their patients—and one another.

08/14/2019

Designer Phil Stern ’84 won three Excellence Awards in the University & College Designers Association (UCDA) Design Competition for his work on the Winter Bulletin, Spring Bulletin, and The Global Bridge spread from the spring issue. Congratulations, Phil!

06/13/2019

Sue Levin ’85 is chief commercial officer at Bolt Threads, which is working to replace polyester with protein polymers made from renewable resources, and to design them using processes that are cleaner than what is currently used in the textile industry.

Sue Levin ’85's bioengineering efforts make apparel from proteins.

06/12/2019

“I thought it was worrying that [people with disabilities] were marginalized from society. That really, really got to me, and I just felt like I needed to do something about it. I’m someone who fights injustice.” —Efua Asibon ’16

Asibon came up with of the idea for the nonprofit she co-founded, Dislabelled, while still in high school.

06/06/2019

Your credit card statement can also be a political statement. That’s what social entrepreneur Mark Hanis ’04 hopes to prove. See how.

Mark Hanis ’04’s Progressive Shopper web extension reveals the political tendencies of online retailers. 

06/04/2019

“Ultimately, what motivates my work is the idea that providing education to underprivileged students is key to a democratic society.” —Juan Victor Fajardo ’09

A social change-maker, Fajardo knew when he was at Swarthmore that he wanted to one day return to Venezuela.

05/31/2019

“Both my education and my experience at Swarthmore gave me confidence when faced with something very new, something I’ve never done before. I have this confidence that no matter how hard it seems, I can probably learn it very quickly. It goes back to Swarthmore.”—Feng He ’03

A starter of startups, He wanted to see “more creativity, more ideas coming from a younger generation of Chinese.”

05/30/2019

How well do you know your alma mater? Give this the ol’ College try!

05/24/2019

Even as their post-College lives took different paths, seven friends stayed connected for six decades. Read about the "Holy Seven."

Even as their post-College lives took different paths, seven friends stayed connected.