Whitman College • 11th August 2025

Like Mother, Like Daughter: Whitman Alums Weave a Legacy of Growth & Giving

Ahn Lee Horn ’91 believes in serendipity. She regularly runs into an old friend from her Whitman College days in random airports around the world. “We call it the ‘Whitman Thing,’ an interconnectedness between Whitties that you can’t predict but is always there when you need it most.” That “Whitman Thing” is just one example in a lifetime full of experiences, lessons and friendships that have made being an alum a foundational part of Ahn Lee’s life.

Mendoza College of Business • 22nd July 2025

The Big Ugly - Notre Dame Business Mendoza College of Business

“Agriculture is in my blood,” Ben Moore (MBA ‘20) said. After work, he drives his tractor around his family’s farm fields in central California to unwind. When his six-month-old son takes his first steps, it will be barefoot in that same soil. “All I’ve ever wanted to do is get back to farming,” Moore said from his processing plant at The Ugly Company in Farmersville, California. His business upcycles millions of pounds of bruised or funny-looking fruit discarded by farmers and turns it into cle...

The Boston Architectural College • 17th July 2025

Work Your Way Through

At one hundred years old, Franco Vitiello, '68, is the oldest living BAC alumnus. "I'm very proud of being an Italian and I'm very proud of being an American," he often says. At the College's 2025 Commencement, Franco Vitiello received Doctor of Design Leadership Honoris Causa for his contribution to the field of design.

SMFA at Tufts University • 17th July 2025

Something That's Needed | School of the Museum of Fine Arts | Tufts University

Kate Levant, BFA '06,  is sitting on the second floor of KAJE, the experimental arts not-for-profit that she and fellow SMFA alum Jacques Vidal, BFA ‘04, founded in Brooklyn's Gowanus neighborhood. "What I'm working on is growing this organization," she says, gesturing to the open gallery space below her where exhibition designer Grace Caiazza is about to install a modular display system for a group exhibition titled "Arachnophobia."

SMFA at Tufts University • 17th July 2025

That Slippery Moment | School of the Museum of Fine Arts | Tufts University

Growing up in Colombia as the oldest child of two chemical engineers, Gonzalo Fuenmayor's, MFA '04, parents demanded academic rigor and a successful career from their son. He attended business school for three years to appease them, but he felt miserable.  "This can't be my life. I can't do this," he said to himself over and over. "Then I rebelled."

MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology • 17th July 2025

What do we owe each other?

MIT equips students with the tools to advance science and engineering — but a new class aims to ensure they also develop their own values and learn how to navigate conflicting viewpoints.

North Bennet Street School • 13th June 2025

Skilled Hands Around the World - North Bennet Street School

How six NBSS alumni carved their own unique careers as carpenters, piano technicians, bookbinders, locksmiths, and furniture makers—from Mansfield, Massachusetts to Bogota, Colombia.

The Notre Dame Deloitte Center for Ethical Leaders • 28th May 2025

Notre Dame Deloitte Center for Ethical Leadership | Mendoza College of Business | University of Notre Dame

In celebration of the Forbes award and to understand what it really means from the inside, The Notre Dame Deloitte Center for Ethical Leadership set out to ask some of the strongest voices among staff and administration at the university to speak to the role that ethical leadership plays in their jobs and their lives.

University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business • 27th May 2025

Mendoza Business Magazine - The Adam Smith Professor

Every fall, Otteson watches his undergrad students file into Mendoza room 203 for the first class meeting of his seminar: Economic Sins. Like clockwork, as they go around in a circle introducing themselves, Otteson said the students “half-apologize” for wanting to succeed in business. The implication? Wanting to make money in the private sector is greedy.

Whitman College • 21st May 2025

Strength in Numbers: Marina Ptukhina Challenges Students To Become Thoughtful Data Analysts

Marina Ptukhina chose to go into academia because she had questions that demanded complex answers.

MIT Schwarzman College of Computing • 21st May 2025

Bringing meaning into technology deployment - MIT Schwarzman College of Computing

The MIT Ethics of Computing Research Symposium showcases projects at the intersection of technology, ethics, and social responsibility.

MIT Schwarzman College of Computing • 20th May 2025

A sounding board for strengthening the student experience - MIT Schwarzman College of Computing

During his first year at MIT in 2021, Matthew Caren ‘25 received an intriguing email inviting students to apply to become members of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing’s Undergraduate Advisory Group (UAG). He immediately shot off an application.

Soundings Magazine @Endicott College • 20th May 2025

Finding His ‘Field of Dreams’ | Soundings Magazine

There’s a popular meme splattered all over the internet these days: “EAT. SLEEP. SPORTS. REPEAT.” Those words pretty much sum up Mark Lepage’s childhood growing up in Avon, Conn., too. Playing and watching sports took centerstage, and the real-life superheroes he looked up to were all players from the Red Sox, Celtics, and the Patriots.

Mendoza College of Business • 19th May 2025

Mendoza Business Magazine - How To Be A Mentor

In Homer’s “The Odyssey,” when Odysseus embarks on his voyage home to Ithaca following the Trojan War, he entrusts his son, Telemachus, into the care of his trusted friend whose name is Mentor. The famous character serves as a guide to the young man and helps him hone his values, character and aspirations. Today, in the business world and beyond, mentors can continue to fulfill this same worthwhile quest.

SMFA at Tufts University • 8th May 2025

Celebrating the Legacy of Performance Art at SMFA at Tufts | School of the Museum of Fine Arts | Tufts University

At age eleven, Lu Adami, MFA ‘25, first took free quilting lessons at a local public library in Chicagoland and has continued working in the craft ever since. Although Adami was formally trained in figurative painting as an undergraduate at Brown, quilting is now at the heart of their practice.  Traditionally, quiltmaking takes place around a circle, and Adami has come to view the inclusive act as representing the things they value most: community, care, and respect.

The Boston Architectural College • 1st May 2025

Learning by Doing

In the 20 years that Len Charney taught at the BAC and served as Dean of Practice, he never once came to class and lectured. "You ask questions and then you wait for the lightbulbs to go off in students' minds," he said of his teaching philosophy. "What you teach should always be based on what students want to learn."

Hofstra University Magazine • 30th April 2025

The Dream Machine

See how Hofstra is helping aspiring entrepreneurs turn their ideas into reality. “Entrepreneurship isn’t something I set out to do,” Mike Seiman admitted. “It’s something I fell into. There were no academic resources for studying it at the time. I just started doing stuff and making money, and then I kept building, selling parts of it off, and growing it.”

MIT Center for International Studies • 6th March 2025

Houck and Ansari, PhD students, further their dissertation research abroad | MIT Center for International Studies

Olivia Wynne Houck and Natasha Ansari are the recipients of the 2024 Jeanne Guillemin Prize awarded by the MIT Center for International Studies.  The Guillemin Prize provides critical funding for female-identifying PhD students pursuing research in international affairs. The annual prize was endowed by its namesake, Jeanne Guillemin, shortly before her passing in 2019. A longtime CIS associate and former Boston College professor, Guillemin dedicated her career as a science and national security...

Whitman College • 18th February 2025

Professor Problem-Solver: Teaching Creative & Efficient Software Solutions

In his life and work, John Stratton has always liked being fast. Fast at piecing together logic puzzles as a kid in small-town Virginia. Fast with the fry baskets in his first job at the local McDonald’s. And a builder of fast things—from rockets to computer software—in high school and college.

The Boston Architectural College • 18th February 2025

Steering Change

Richard Snyder Esq., Hon'24 has made it his life mission to give back and make institutions more diverse