Jeremy England ’99 will have you know that he’s not buying the Charles Darwin comparisons. “The echo chamber of exaggerated statements on the internet is very loud and very powerful,” he says. Nonetheless, the young physicist has grabbed the attention of the scientific world with a hypothesis about evolution that he calls dissipative adaptation. In […]
Emily Germain Shea ’83 didn’t fully realize the impact her business, the Kickstand Cafe, had on the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, until one day in June 2015. Shea and her co-owner, Mark Ostow, were moved to respond to the mass shooting at a Charleston, South Carolina, church. They decided to donate 100 percent of that […]
Exeter students feed their hunger for discovery with passion projects outside the classroom.
Though Robert Keefe ’64 spent only one year at the Academy, that was plenty of time to awaken him to the universal importance of education — his own and others’. “I truly believe that the more education we have, the better society is, the more tolerant people are,” Keefe says. “With education, there’s no problem […]
Reverend Bonnie-Jeanne Casey sits in a sunny spot in Phillips Church in mid-August, looking ahead to a fall like none other in Exeter’s history. With physical distancing, mask-wearing and other restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, she finds it hard to predict what exactly her work as the school’s new director of religious and spiritual […]
