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Confessions of a Swarthmore gearhead.

Weaving the tale of today’s migration crisis with help from those living through it.

On her farmette in Ohio, Martha Harrell Howard ’75 has bred and raised hundreds of miniature donkeys. 

When it comes to humor, Marina Tempelsman ’10 and Niccolo Aeed ’10 are no dummies.

Finding light and laughter in the end.

To honor more than a century of handmade student publications, we’ve created our own, mining Swarthmorean humor in the most obscure corners.

Failure comes in many mutable forms: A lost job. A burned pie. A cloud of ravenous aphids devouring a prized rose bush in midsummer.

In the months before JFK was killed, a Quaker woman shared her heart—and her home—with Oswald’s wife.

Lessons from Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon ’12’s past inspire her teaching.

Kaori Kitao, the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor Emerita of Art History, taught at Swarthmore from 1966 to 2001.

To many, she’s a legend, and one of the College’s all-time best educators.