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Andrew Iferenta ’24 and his parents
Campus and Community

Exceeding Expectations

Condon Medal winner announced and student achievements celebrated during award ceremony

Yumi Kang '24, left, and Jackie Hardwick '24, will teach overseas for a year after winning prestigious Fulbright fellowships.
Campus and Community

Fulbright Fellows Will Teach in Taiwan and South Korea

Hard work pays off for Jackie Hardwick ’24 and Yumi Kang ’24, who receive prestigious fellowships

Jeff Rose and Kate Weiler '04, who co-founded Drink Simple a decade ago.
Alumni

Simply Maple Water Straight From the Tree

Kate Weiler ’04 marks a decade of Drink Simple, the beverage company she cofounded

Claire Jimenez
Alumni

Claire Jiménez ’06 Wins 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez emerges as the best novel published in 2023

Associate Professor of Chemistry Karena McKinney, poses for a portrait in the Perkins Arboretum. She has received a grant from the National Science Foundation to study emissions from trees, known in the world of science as biogenic volatile organic compounds.
Environment and Climate

Understanding the Air We Breathe

Associate Professor of Chemistry Karena McKinney teams with Davis Institute for AI on prestigious NSF grant

Jack Brenner ’26 in the Perkins Arboretum
Humanities

Have You Listened to the Sounds of the Colby Forest?

A new humanities lab project, to be presented at this year’s liberal arts symposium, asks people to close their eyes and listen to what the woods have to say

Farnham Writers' Center
Campus and Community

One Writer at a Time

With peer-to-peer tutoring, the Farnham Writers’ Center prepares students for a lifetime of effective communication

Mike Ballin and Blueprint Surf Co.
Alumni

Surf’s Up, and It’s Green

Mike Ballin ’21 is using recycled plastic to 3D print surfboards at Blueprint Surf Co. 

Brad Mundy and Kevin Rice at a chemistry bench
Natural Sciences

Professor Brad Mundy Honored with Memorial Lecture

The Chemistry Department recognizes transformative contributions of the recently deceased professor

Pedro Santos ’26, Thor Gabrielsen ’26, and Eddie O’Sullivan ’26
Natural Sciences

Camaraderie and Competition Spur Excellence in Mathematics

An academic friendship bolsters three sophomores’ scores in the field’s preeminent competition