SARA TOTH - EDITOR Borum Chattoo Caty Borum Chattoo is not a comedian — but, she said, she was a funny kid. That funny kid from the South grew up to become an award-winning media
SARA TOTH - EDITOR Murray When Amy Coney Barrett took her seat on the Supreme Court on Oct. 27, 2020, it solidified a 6-3 conservative majority on the court. Many, including legal scholar Melissa Murray,
SARA TOTH - EDITOR VanDerveer Tara VanDerveer and Nancy Lopez are known the world over as legends in their fields — VanDerveer as the winningest coach in Division I women’s college basketball history, and Lopez
SARA TOTH - EDITOR Edelman When global communications firm Edelman released findings from the annual Trust Barometer survey in January, the company’s CEO Richard Edelman noted with the report that “this is the era of
SARA TOTH - EDITOR Chiang When people talk about science fiction, Ted Chiang thinks, they mostly use the genre as a “synonym for nonsense.” He’d like to correct, or clarify, the record. “Think of the
SARA TOTH - EDITOR Smith Over the course of his career, Michael W. Smith has won more than 40 Dove Awards, three Grammy Awards and an American Music Award. He’s been inducted into the Gospel
SARA TOTH - EDITOR The Glenn Miller Orchestra performs Aug. 7, 2017, in the Amp. The band returns to the Amp stage at 8:15 p.m. on Thursday, July 1. The Glenn Miller Orchestra typically tours
When it comes to New Year’s resolutions, education beat reporters have two chances at “fresh starts” to the year — the calendar year, in January, and the academic year, in August. Moriah Balingit, the national
If you want democracy to work, Barbara A. Milkulski likes to say, you have to work at democracy. Mikulski A great deal of that work was done by generations of women in America as they
In many ways, it makes sense that Elaine Weiss is opening Week Five of the CHQ Assembly season, dedicated to celebrating the centennial of women’s suffrage in the United States. For one, she literally wrote
The Avett Brothers’ 2012 song “Live and Die” begins with the lyrics, “All it'll take is just one moment and / you can say goodbye to how we had it planned.” The band’s upright bass
DeGroot When Rabbi Nate DeGroot attended the Center for Earth Ethics conference several years ago, the founder Karenna Gore gave a presentation describing the center’s origins, and the bringing together of 12 faith leaders to
In a week dedicated to the science, economics and ethics of longer life spans, a panel discussion is set to bring cultural perspectives to the conversation. Kate de Medeiros, the O’Toole Family Professor in Miami
Dennis Galucki sums up the idea of Buffalo Day at Chautauqua in 10 words: “To explore American legacy through place-based, lifelong learning and imagination.” Ten words, and now, 10 years. Buffalo Day at Chautauqua is spending
Russia spans 11 time zones. Nina Khrushcheva has been to them all. From eastern Europe to the Sea of Okhotsk, it was interesting to see, she said, just how big the country really is. Nina
A band, Glenn Miller once famously quipped, “ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality.” His eponymous orchestra had personality and style to spare; in short, “he was