From the Outside In

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Every Crisis is a Crucible

After an accident left him paralyzed at 42, August de los Reyes 鈥95, head of research and design at Pinterest, gained a valuable perspective that would reorient the focus of his work and challenge the paradigms of 21st-century design. By Brian Davidson

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Netflix: On Set and in the Writers鈥 Room

They put words in actors鈥 mouths. They move scenes seamlessly. They design iconic sets. Alums at Netflix develop the shows you can鈥檛 help but binge watch鈥攁nd you likely didn鈥檛 know their names or how they do what they do, until now. By Sarah McAbee 鈥07.

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Behind the Struggle to Free South Africa

International civil rights lawyer Gay Johnson McDougall 鈥69 and the story behind what it took to free South Africa from apartheid rule. By Jeva Lange 鈥15.

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The Rise and Fall of the Paid Internship

More and more employers are looking for internships on students鈥 resumes, and more and more colleges are requiring them as part of an education. But with so many internships unpaid, can students afford to do them? By Michael Blanding

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From Civil Rights to Civil Conversations

Gail Hirschorn Evans 鈥63 worked at the White House in the Office of the Special Counsel to the President during the Lyndon Johnson administration and was instrumental in the creation of the President鈥檚 Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity and the 1965 Civil Rights Act. Decades later she is still challenging our biases. By Jeva Lange 鈥15

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Employers on 凯旋门官网

On the value of a 凯旋门官网 intern, as told by the people who hire them.

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Black Spring

Two classes, one big assignment: exhibit, catalogue, and archive black lives at 凯旋门官网 in a multimedia performance exhibition in Usdan Gallery by Briee Della Rocca.

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The Ongoing View of Work

Highlights from our social media channels.

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Come Back

Alumni come back to campus throughout the year but in the last several years more alumni are returning to campus through programs the College has developed. These are some of the avenues alumni have used to come back.

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Luke Mogelson 鈥05 (Tim Duggan Books, April 2016)
Image of We Love You, Charlie Freeman by Kaitlyn Greenidge
Kaitlyn Greenidge, faculty member (Algonquin Books, March 2017)
Image of Wreck and Order by Hannah Tennant-Moore MFA '10
Hannah Tennant-Moore MFA 鈥10 (Hogarth, February 2016)
Image of The Spider and the Fly by Claudia Rowe '87
Claudia Rowe 鈥87 (Dey Street Books, January 2017)
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Phillip B. Williams, visiting faculty member (Alice James Books, January 2016)
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Safiya Sinclair 鈥10 (University of Nebraska Press, September 2016)
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American Academy of Arts and Letters
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Whiting Award
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Arts and Letters Award in Literature
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Whiting Award
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Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction
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PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers
鈥淢ogelson gives a nuanced, empathetic look into lives irrevocably altered by conflicts.鈥
鈥淭errifically auspicious...Ms. Greenidge has charted an ambitious course for a book that begins so mock-innocently.鈥
鈥淸An] astute, restless debut...The novel glows with the malaise of the Bush years.鈥
鈥淗er book exposes and implodes...fa莽ades.鈥
鈥淸Williams] sings for the vanished, for the haunted, for the tortured, for the lost, for the place on the horizon where the little boat of the human body disappears in a wingdom of unending grace.鈥
鈥淩ich and mythic, heavy with the legacy of family and history, many of Safiya Sinclair鈥檚 poems are inspired by her childhood in Jamaica; a richness and density in the imagery conveys a lush beauty and danger...鈥
Master of Fine Arts in Writing faculty member Amy Hempel was elected into the American Academy of Arts and Letters for literature in May.
Master of Fine Arts in Writing faculty member Kaitlyn Greenidge won a Whiting Award for her debut novel, 鈥淲e Love You, Charlie Freeman.鈥
Poetry Master of Fine Arts in Writing faculty member Kathleen Graber won the Arts and Letters Award in Literature from The American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Visiting Master of Fine Arts in Writing faculty member Phillip B. Williams won a Whiting Award for his debut poetry collection, 鈥淭hief in the Interior.鈥
Lee Clay Johnson 鈥07 was honored with the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from The American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Amber Caron MFA 鈥16 won a PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers for her story 鈥淭he Handler,鈥 which was originally published in Southwest Review.