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portrait of Alyse Bensel

Pixels & Punches

06/10/2025

The new poetry collection from Alyse Bensel ’10, Spoil, explores remarkably personal wounds that remind us that life is lived, suffered, and celebrated on the individual level.

Dylan Poulsen with Dunning Hall in the background

Data Diggers

06/05/2025

Professor provides students with real-life learning opportunities to dig into the numbers and make a difference.

Photo of Stephen Spotswood's five books

Killing It

05/29/2025

Stephen Spotswood ’99 recently released the fifth installment of his Pentecost and Parker murder mystery series, Dead in the Frame. 

Sophie Kerr in profile in front of botanical art

Sophie Kerr Reimagined

05/22/2025

In fall 2024, for the first time, 59 years after Kerr’s death, Washington College offered a course on her work, taught by English professor Elizabeth Foley O’Connor. The course, Feminist Modernism(s): Editing Sophie Kerr, analyzed six of Kerr’s short stories over the semester and contextualized her writing within the literary landscape of her era—literary modernism, a period spanning from the late 1800s through 1939.

The 2025 cohort of Explore America interns, from Washington College's Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience.

A Summer of Exploration

05/13/2025

26 students are embarking on career building summer internships at prestigious posts across the nation through the Starr Center’s Explore America Program.

Students in the “Witches, Healers, and Shamans” class at Washington College visit historical sites in Salem, MA.

Examining Tragic and Magical Histories

05/12/2025

An experiential learning trip to Salem, Massachusetts allowed students to explore the historical and present intersections between nature, spirituality, and society.