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Student Chris Sausa, right, and his “little brother” Johan, center, along with student Garrett Lukens, build doghouses with Sharon Shafer from Houses of Wood and Straw, left, and NBC-29 reporter Moriah Davis. (Photos by Peggy Harrison)

Building More Than Just Doghouses in Men's Leadership Project

Local middle school boys have taught Chris Sausa (SEAS 2019) the importance of being genuine and showing you care.

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Spotlight: Maddie Fleischmann

I have always been passionate about global womanhood and women's empowerment.

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Alumna Continues to Care & Advocate for Survivors

Alum's history of advocacy helps patients approach her for the care they need.

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Tips for Exam Stress: Remember the 5 P's!

Your heart is racing, you’re losing sleep, your appetite is changing…is it love? Nope. It’s EXAMS! Stress is a normal reaction to an event or occasion where we need to do our best. The good news is that there are ways to manage stress so that we can function and be successful.

Staff members walking on path to South Wing at Monticello

Palko POV: Mind the Gap

A dress adorns a mannequin. The form of a woman is present, but she herself is not. Monticello’s Life of Sally Hemings exhibit is as moving as it is spare. We must settle for the dress and silhouettes projected on a screen, the technological anachronism reminding us that we cannot ever fully enter her world.

PALKO POV: Fictional Friends Who Embolden Us to Thrive

Every so often, my daughter tries to make me commit at dinner: “No, really, Mommy: what’s your favorite book?” I hedge: favorite 5 authors? Favorite series? Favorite book with yellow on the cover? To be fair, I was absurdly excited when I recently discovered the Japanese concept of tsundoku. “I tsundoku” explains so much of my life.