Clubs and organizations:
Honors/scholarships/awards:
John Montgomery Scholarship for Music Merit in Vocal Performance, Lester & Dorothy Etter Scholarship, Alumni Council Scholarship and Dean’s List.
Favorite book:
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World by Haruki Murakami,
Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands by Chris Bohjalian and all of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes mysteries.
Favorite movie:
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe and
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
Favorite place on campus:
I like to switch it up! My regulars are Montgomery House, the music-department lobby, the Academic Quad and the Quarry wrap-around porch.
Jane Lubchenco. Photo by Joy Leighton.
The Annual Joseph Priestley Award Celebration Lecture
by Logan Cort 22
Jane Lubchenco, an expert on human and environmental interactions who served as the administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), will deliver the 69th Annual Joseph Priestley Award Celebration Lecture presented by Dickinson’s Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues. “How to Use the Planet Without Using It Up” will be held on Wednesday, March 31, at 7 p.m. in a public YouTube livestream.
The presentation will explore global environment challenges and solutions through interdisciplinary approaches and interaction between civil society, business leaders, faith workers, youth and government.
Rising to challenge, CAILCD follows own advice
by MaryAlice Bitts-Jackson
Aya Sobhy ’21 was on her dream career path. She listened to her academic advisor. She studied hard. She attended Dickinson career-exploration and networking events. She researched internships with help from Dickinson’s Center for Advising, Internships & Lifelong Career Development (CAILCD), beginning in her first year on campus. And with CAILCD s guidance, she served two internships and refined her goals.
Then 2020 happened. And in-person classes, advising appointments, internships and career and networking events were no longer available.
How do you seamlessly support students like Sobhy in the midst of a global pandemic? CAILCD staff followed the advice they’ve long dished out: They researched options. They inventoried skills and acquired new ones. They pivoted as needed. And they found new ways to connect students with critical career-exploration, job-search and networking opportunities.
by MaryAlice Bitts-Jackson
It takes imagination to make a big career leap and strategy and versatility to land on solid ground. That’s the very stuff Dickinsonians are made of. So in an era when more people are switching careers than ever and, in some cases, doing so several times we asked alumni to show us how it’s done and offer their career-reinvention stories and advice.
Lynn Waldo Smiledge ’75: Keep Learning
Early in her career, Smiledge pivoted within her industry. Then, at age 50, she crafted an entirely different career.
Education: Art history and biology major. B.S., medical arts, University of Toronto.
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Dickinson Presents Classic Radio Play on WDCV-FM
The radio play Under Milk Wood will be broadcast March 5 and 6 on WDCV-FM. You can listen at 88.3 FM or online.
Dylan Thomas’ masterwork to air on WDCV, with video to follow
by MaryAlice Bitts-Jackson
On March 5 and 6, Dickinson’s Department of Theatre & Dance will bring a memorable production to life by artfully fusing an age-old art form with 21st-century technologies.
A cast of 30 Dickinsonians, performing from locations across campus and around the world, will perform
Under Milk Wood as a radio drama on Dickinson’s radio station, WDCV-FM 88.3. The play will air March 5 and 6 at 7 p.m., over the radio waves and online. The following week, the theatre & dance department will release a video of the play, featuring visual elements designed by faculty and staff.