How We Talk About the Humanities
The humanities — defined as the “big four” of English, languages, philosophy, and history — are in decline. Intellectuals and
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In STEM and Econ Majors, Large Gender Gap Persists
According to a Swarthmore Institutional Research compilation of the class of 2018, four different popular majors have a disproportionate amount
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Australian Daydreams
It’s September of 2018, and I am officially a junior at Swat. I feel a little queasy just seeing that
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How inclusion drives innovation
If Swarthmore’s computer science core curriculum has taught me anything — other than some Python, C, and C++ —it is
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BEP phase one comes to a close
On the northwest corner of campus, construction for the new Biology, Engineering, and Psychology building persists as the fall semester
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CS enrollment continues to swell, department responds
Sam Evans ’17 had intended on pursuing computer science as a potential major. However, each of the four times he
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WTF? Where’s the family in STEM?
The biology department feels like a family. This is something that resonates with my peers in Bio 2 as we
Read moreWICS offers women in computer science support, opportunities
We’ve all heard the statistics: women are pretty drastically underrepresented in STEM fields, particularly those of computer science and engineering.
Read moreBiochem research with Meghann Kasal
This week, I talked to Meghann Kasal ’17, who does research with Professor Stephen Miller in the biochemistry department.
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