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Employees build strengths

Leadership expert and best­selling author Marcus Bucking­ham spoke to faculty and staff in the Academic Resource Center on Thursday, Jan. 5 about positive psychology and how to analyze and improve their innate talents to promote personal and profes­sional success.

Kathleen ’12 becomes semifinalist

Kathleen’12 was recent­ly honored as a Siemens Semifinal­ist in Science for her research at the House Research Institute regarding the effect of a class of antibiotics’ on a middle ear infection.

Dr. Day departs

English instructor Iyko Day, a tall, slender woman with a finely coiffed, glossy black bob stands at the front of room C225, teaching a class full of seniors about Asian American literature, her area of expertise and research. Since being hired in the summer as a part-time instructor to teach English II and the City [...]

Feminist film sparks media discussion

As a clip of Gossip Girl’s protago­nist Serena Van der Woodsen seduc­tively eating a strawberry flashed on the screen in Caswell Hall, a burst of laughter emanated from the crowd. Students murmured in disgust and subsiding horror when a shot of Tod­dlers in Tiaras appeared.

Pattie preaches privacy

Pattie Fitzgerald, founder of Safely Ever After, Inc. and mother of Marissa’16, spoke to the Parents’ Association (PA) on Nov. 15, 2011 about Internet safety for teens.

Authors in the ARC

Author Aimee Bender will visit the Academic Resource Center (ARC) on Friday, Jan. 13 during lunch to discuss her writing process and read from her newest novel and fourth book, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake.

COL steps up service

COL steps up service

This year, Community Outreach League (COL) co-chairs Zoe’13 and Eliza ’13 have revamped the program af­ter a somewhat stagnant 2010-2011 school year by setting more rea­sonable goals and making sure to follow up on them.

Deu, Jonze spike interest

Deu, Jonze spike interest

“We basically just went out to dinner, hung out, played charades, did some cannonballs in his pool, and I got him to come to Marlbor­ough,” Visual Arts Instructor Josh Deu said, explaining how he convinced Oscar-nominated director Spike Jonze to come to campus.