We’ve been talking about a redesign for the magazine for a couple of years now, and I’ve been broaching the topic whenever I run into an interested reader. I’ve sometimes been taken aback by the typical response: “Why?” But I’ve…
One Student, Three Stories …
… Good News Everywhere You Look. OK, that’s a long headline. It’s the kind of issue you’re going to run into with students like Steven Garza ’13. I first came across this senior when he gave a presentation about his McNair…
A Word From the First Year
Happy anniversary to us! A year ago today publications intern Nicole Jagielski ’12 and I launched this blog with a post called – and I believe you can see the full might of our joint creative powers at work there –…
Matters of Science
Well, we knew we’d have good news about science to share in our next issue: we just couldn’t necessarily say what that might be or when we would hear. So we prepped a cover story about the future of science education;…
A Week in Portraits
Acquired, commissioned, art directed, shot. Swapped. Mooched. A scrapbook of this past week offered in awed appreciation to Bart Colson in Zwevegem, Belgium; Mike Roemer and Corey Wilson in Green Bay; Alan King and Michael Diedrick at the Milwaukee Journal…
How to Excel in Dutch
I’ve been developing an article about a Belgian who collects Praemonstratensia – items connected to the history of our founding order. He’s sent me a carefully prepared Excel document in which he has his collection mapped item by item, abbey by…
