Jesse Handler ’09 was always a controlled, tough athlete—always seeking the next level.
So when it came to senior year and his time playing competitive lacrosse—which he had done from an early age—was coming to an end, he looked for the next step.
“I saw mixed martial arts on TV, and it looked like it would be [...]

Last spring, Corinna “Cori” Lathan ’88 found herself breathing in the crisp 15-degree air of northwest Greenland. She had just arrived at Thule Air Force Base, a U.S. Army outpost about 950 miles from the North Pole, where she’d be spending a day testing the prototype of a new neurobehavioral assessment software she and her [...]

Fifteen years ago, Julie Zimmerman ’68 was running a small publishing company, Biddle Publishing, and a self-publishing co-op, Audenreed Press, when she got a collect call from a prisoner on death row named A.J. Banister. He had appeared in Dead End, a book that Zimmerman’s firm had published on the death penalty, and he wanted [...]

When Nathan Florence ’94 arrived at Swarthmore from Utah, he planned to take premed courses. Yet he loved painting and wondered if pursuing art could be a realistic goal. As he pondered which path to take, he received some transformative advice from Stanford University psychologist Anne Jones Fernald ’65. She told him if he “put [...]

A bass beat pulses through the floor and up into the bodies of nightclub guests. The powerful pounding rhythm brings them to the dance floor.
On this night at Sisters Nightclub in Philadelphia, [Kathryn] Ashley Brandt ’07 (aka DJ K.ASH) is the disc jockey responsible for providing a music mix that resonates with club guests.
“It’s all [...]

Most of us know how to dig up a few facts about someone online. But for corporate private investigator Edward Frost ’73, Google is a gold mine—and just one of the many tools he uses to track down information needed to crack a case.
Frost is a senior director with Alvarez & Marsal (A&M), a global [...]

Inviting the inner child to re-emerge for playtime, the colorful displays at Toy Fair 2011 in New York enticed industry professionals to play hide-and-seek on three expansive floors.
During mid-February, toy creators and merchants at the Jacob Javits Convention Center dazzled potential buyers with eye-catching gimmicks—from an inflatable remote-controlled flying fish to a shiny red, miniature [...]

Nineteen-year old factory worker Beckie Neubauer could have had no idea that she would draw her last breath on March 25, 1911, when fire consumed the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in Lower East Side, New York City. That day, 146 workers—mostly young, female immigrants—burned alive or jumped to their deaths as firemen scrambled to reach the [...]

“I doubt if anyone in my class or on the faculty at Swarthmore would have ever predicted an academic career for me,” says DeWitt “Bud” Baldwin. Yet the work of the pediatrician, family practitioner, and psychiatrist turned medical professor and researcher has garnered him two honorary doctoral degrees and numerous national and international awards for [...]

During her 40 years as a social scientist at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, Lotte Lazarsfeld Bailyn has seen tremendous improvements in workplace conditions for women—and that includes women at MIT itself.
Particularly significant were the changes that followed the 1999 release of a report that uncovered rampant gender inequities at the institute’s School of Science. [...]