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Swarthmore's volleyball team are exceptional students, athletes, and student-athletes.

Ben Young ’09 finds meaning in neglected areas, like the underside of a table.

Maggie Regan ’14 looked into the pitch-black English Channel, took a deep breath, and jumped in.

Scott Arboretum-gifted plants and their proud parents.  

All year, every year, Olivia Leventhal ’18 is helping African schoolchildren. 

Vanessa Meng ’19 and Adina Spertus-Melhus ’17 spearheaded a campus waste assessment.

Swarthmore College has committed to become a sanctuary campus for undocumented students and community members.

Quakers have always challenged gender norms, but in the 1770s, Jemima Wilkinson went further.

Patty Welch de Llosa ’54 shares a few self-fulfillment tips from her latest book, Finding Time for Your Self.

In the Yale Book of Quotations, only one entry cites a Swarthmore origin: “Like a fish without a bicycle,” attributed to Charles Harris ’59.