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Don’t be a stranger! We encourage all submissions, except for PR and anything too boring. We know you all live interesting lives, so tell us about them! We recommend writing in the third person and keeping them succinct.
Terry Healey ’86 writes, “Thrilled to announce that my latest book, The Resilience Mindset: How Adversity Can Strengthen Individuals, Teams, and Leaders, has won a National Indie Excellence Award. I overcame a life-threatening cancer that left me with a permanent facial difference when I was a junior at Berkeley. I encountered roadblocks for years afterwards, […]
Rachelle Gold ’02 writes, “I won a 5-year $500,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to create an oral history archive of Black women justice-seekers who are alumnae of North Carolina Central University (NCCU), where I have taught English, Composition, African American Literature, World Literature, and Grammar since 2008. So far, I have trained 80 students […]
Jill Bronfman ’89 writes, “I’m excited to share that I have a new book available for pre-sales, Second Cities, which is a beautifully-illustrated slim volume of narrative poems that I wrote about the less-traveled cities of the world. Second Cities is a book of poems that takes a sideways glance at the world. “Second City” […]
John Godwin‘s book, Strategic Direction from the President: A Century of US Foreign Policy, 1915-2015, was released on September 3.
Neal W. Fandek ’81 has published Native American Monuments of Missouri: A History & Guide, a journey of 10,000 years (Arcadia Publishing). It’s a history of the long Native American presence in the state, starting with the ancient, advanced civilizations who built great monuments throughout Missouri and the Midwest. These people built giant cities long […]
Silvia Valisa, PhD ’07, published a new book on the construction of modern Italian culture. The Periodical Life of Modernity: Sonzogno’s First Century (1804-1909), published by University of Toronto Press in 2026, focuses on Milan-based publisher Sonzogno. The book examines the technological and innovations at the heart of the new periodical market, and their importance […]
