Features Simian SensibilityA popular anthropology course examines how and why primates—and scientific views—have evolved.
Features The NaturalProfessor Ross Virginia is as cozy in an African desert as he is in the Antarctic—where there’s even a swatch of icy terrain named after him.
Features America Is QueerAmerican history was made by many people who did not conform to conventional gender expectations.
Features “Why Blue?”A tiny detail from a poem captured the strangeness of the ordinary—and the extraordinary insight of a beloved professor.
Features Remembering EvelynTo say that Evelyn Stefansson Nef, who left her mark on Dartmouth in the 1950s, was way ahead of her time fails to do her justice.
Features The Novelist’s Muse An author looks back on the English literature professor who changed his life: the engaging James Cox.
Features Not Lost in TranslationProfessor Margaret Williamson shows students how language serves as a window into human nature and cultural distinctions.