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As a student at Swarthmore Sa’ed Atshan ’06 felt torn between two worlds.

Karín Aguilar-San Juan ’84’s new book sees past activism echoing into the future.

New books by Swarthmore graduates.

Swarthmore taught me what a true teacher is—so I became one.

We're strengthening our Swarthmorean bonds, one dinner at a time.

I spent our shoot—and production cycle—grinning.

For 18 years, Don “Donny” Thomas has been the smiling face of Sharples Dining Hall.

Google honors legendary birder Phoebe Snetsinger ’53 with a Doodle.

Avian and otherwise, rare birds abound at Swarthmore. 

Among the many roosting in the College’s Peace Collection is Horace Gundry Alexander, a world-famous
pacifist, Quaker, and adviser to Mahatma Gandhi.

Nowhere in the 14 boxes of papers by the Englishman who eventually moved to Swarthmore is there more passion than in the slim folder, “Writings re: birds.” 

Christine Poreba ’97’s Rough Knowledge is remarkable.