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Novelist, poet, and literary critic Garth Greenwell delivered the ¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø Writing Seminars 47th Commencement address.

Greetings from beautiful ¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø, where the trees are frosted with snow and students are making final preparations for Field Work Term. The past few months have brought new opportunities for artistic discovery and intellectual collaboration. Students dove into fall term eager to flex their creative, analytic, and democratic muscles and start building a better world. We are excited to share with you all the great work that is under way. 

A dystopian metropolis plagued by dragons. A disillusioned detective back on the beat. An exploration of what it means to be black, feminist, and female in America. A deep dive into the new science of psychedelics. Across millions of words and myriad perspectives, one constant is clear: 2018 was a big year for ¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø writers.

Today, President Mariko Silver shared the following message with the ¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø College community to commemorate former faculty member Danny Michaelson.

Responding to former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's $1.8 billion gift to his alma mater Johns Hopkins University, President Mariko Silver writes in her Forbes column about college access, championing access to more kinds of schools for more kinds of students.