Explore Stories

Meet 10 female Swarthmorean students of science who received Velay Fellowships.

John Lim ’16 creates a special installment of his delicious web series.

In frosh-to-senior bookended videos, Stephanie Kestelman ’16 traces her journey. 

Retiring professors Sharon Friedler, Cynthia Halpern, Frank Moscatelli, and Barry Schwartz look back—and ahead.

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

Josh Coceano went from Scott Arboretum intern to the College’s full-time horticulturist. 

It is a truth universally acknowledged that math class can be boring. 

But it doesn’t have to be, according to Dan Finkel ’02. An elementary-school math whiz who went on to exhaust his district’s math resources halfway through high school, Finkel eventually majored in mathematics at Swarthmore before earning a Ph.D. in the subject at the University of Washington. 

Interested in brushing up on your Latin this summer by reading medieval texts full of action, adventure, and theology?

Last year, new developments roused our country’s crisis of conscience vis-a-vis the trial and execution of Ethel Rosenberg. 

Michael Meeropol ’64 (nee Rosenberg) and brother Robert, orphaned in 1953 by the execution of their parents, Julius and Ethel, served up a New York Times op-ed column in August. “Exonerate our mother, Ethel Rosenberg,” they wrote, addressing President Obama. Their plea was published a month after original grand-jury testimony was unsealed that reaffirmed perjury by the prosecution’s star witness, Ethel’s younger brother, David Greenglass.

“You have to learn not to gesticulate when holding a fountain pen,” cautions Tomoko Sakomura, associate professor of art history, who once ruined a colleague’s shirt with splattered ink. 

However, many Swarthmoreans consider the occasional stain a small price to pay for the beauty and power this writing implement bestows.