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True, Anna O’Keefe ’18 does not play squash. Still, she graduated straight into a perfect-fit job at CitySquash, a nonprofit that helps prepare economically disadvantaged students to dominate the T (it’s a squash thing) and, more critically, for college.

Keenan Burton ’16 discovered his love for French in high school; in College he glimpsed how much further he could go. Now he’s a student in a French doctoral program.

New Assistant Professor of History Mackenzie Cooley is determined to be a "historian plus" who goes beyond the library to reach out to people with her passion for her subject.

As an undergraduate Kadaicia-Loi Dunkley ’15 majored in Asian studies to explore her family’s Chinese and Jamaican culture, and she was inspired by her family again to pursue a career in finance and real estate. Dunkley is earning a master’s degree in business administration at Columbia Business School.

Creative writing major Hannah McLean ’19 tells of the post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans education system using virtual reality.

The December 2018 issue of Revue Bénédictine, a leading journal of monastic and theological studies, features an article by Associate Professor of History John Eldevik: "A New Sermon on I Maccabees at Admont: Apocalyptic Thought, Biblical Exegesis, and Crusading in Twelfth-Century Bavaria."

While most students spent finals week toiling over essays and studying for tests, the class of 2019’s computer science majors finalized and presented the digital applications they had worked on during the fall term.

Students in Environmental Studies 305: Climate Risk and Resilience gave final presentations of their climate change risk assessment for the village of Clinton on Dec. 3, with Clinton community members and Clinton Mayor John Crossley in the audience.

Students, alumni, faculty, and staff as well as the College’s many centers, activities, and achievements were regularly noted and celebrated in 2018 by national media outlets.

The Society of Italian Historical Studies has awarded Assistant Professor of History Mackenzie Cooley the 2019 Cappadocia Prize for Best Unpublished Manuscript. She received this award for her doctoral dissertation, "Animal Empires: The Perfection of Nature between Europe and the Americas, 1492-1630," completed at Stanford University in 2018.