A. Identify the common feature shared by the five members of each one of the following sets of holidays or commemorations (a different feature for each set). 1. New Year’s Day Groundhog Day Cinco de Mayo D-Day Armistice Day 2. President’s Day Mardi Gras Easter Labor Day Thanksgiving 3. Valentine’s Day St. Patrick’s Day Flag Day […]

A. 1. These holidays have the same number for the day and the month: 1/1, 2/2, 5/5, 6/6, and 11/11. 2. These holidays have a fixed day of the week but not a fixed date: Monday, Tuesday, Sunday, Monday, Thursday. 3. For these holidays, the day of the month exceeds 12, so dates written, e.g. […]

David Starobin, Peab ’73, along with Jason Vieaux, was selected to lead the new classical guitar department at the Curtis Institute of Music, one of the world’s leading conservatories, for the 2011–2012 school year. Starobin is an internationally renowned solo guitarist and a Grammy award–winning record producer. _________________________________________________________________________________ Brian Udoff, A&S ’03, received the 2010 […]

1946 Laura Brautigam June, Nurs ’46, writes that “she has been working on behalf of the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps members to try to get an honorable discharge from Congress.” Several bills have been introduced to this effect, but all have died in committee. 1947 Bettie Jean Knight-Howard, Nurs ’47 (Cert), retired in August 2007 […]

For two months last summer, Tom Chalkley, an adjunct faculty member who teaches cartooning in the Homewood Art Workshops, along with artists Kenny Clemons and Greg Gannon, transformed a Waverly wall into a bright, lively portrait of the neighborhood, which sits just a few blocks from the Homewood campus. They were helped by 30 volunteers, including […]

A: “With the exception of genetically identical twins, each person’s genome is a unique combination of DNA sequences that play major roles in determining who we are. Intense research is ongoing to understand genetic differences between people. Why the interest from science? By understanding how one person’s DNA differs from another’s, we may uncover variations […]

My parents’ generation was mostly technophobic, with the partial exception of my dad, a tinkerer who liked gadgets, although primarily because they existed rather than for what they did. When the Japanese made high-quality, sophisticated cameras affordable, even he headed for a point-and-shoot, the simpler the better. An aunt never mastered remote controls at a […]

Last spring, when President Obama announced “a new direction” for NASA, he wasn’t entertaining visions of space travel to Mars or a return to the moon. Instead, he and his advisers homed in on near-Earth asteroids. NASA now is pursuing a mandate to land a human on one of the 6,500 space rocks that enter […]

The only place to find serenity is in the moment, says Sara Dasso, Engr ’00, owner of the Two Rivers Yoga studio in New Braunfels, Texas. “You can’t find it in the past, and you can’t wait around for it to happen in the future. Now is the only time there is.” Dasso studied materials […]

“There are a lot of things we can agree on. We can start by facing reality: Government can’t solve all of our problems, but we have to admit that it can play a role in the solution. For example, it used to not be as big a deal to extend unemployment benefits in hard times. […]