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Risk isn’t just something to avoid blindly, says Paula Smith ’82.

John McCauley ’91 received the Society of Chemical Industry Gordon E. Moore Medal for innovative chemistry.

David Fraser, Swarthmore president from 1982 to 1991, mastered weft-twined Bedouin weaving and wrote the definitive book on the subject. 

Susan Poser ’85 was appointed provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Illinois-Chicago.

Lourdes Rosado ’85 is the new chief of the civil rights bureau for the New York Attorney General’s office.

 The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers created The Carl Barus Award for Outstanding Service in the Public Interest.

A wooden bench in McCabe Library may have once supported Sojourner Truth.

Alumni advise students on how to break into tech

New books by Swarthmore graduates.

 Jeffrey Palmer ’77 won the McClintock Prize for Plant Genetics and Genome Studies.