News Stories
So Jung Lee '14 was selected as the winner in the student category of the Tenth Annual NMH Poetry Contest. She read her winning poem, "Darkest Magnolia" (printed below), at a poetry slam held Friday, April 26.
Christopher Ahn '15 received second place in the student category; Anya Buyea was selected as the winning poet from the community children category; and a poem by Orlando Hahn Min-Gyu Roof... More
“If you come out of college with a history major, you come valuable in any line of work. History helps you understand society.”
With those words, renowned historian Eric Foner sold at least a few students on the importance of history during a visit to campus in late April. The Columbia University professor delivered a Wantman State of the World lecture about Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation... More
It was, almost certainly, the first time that anyone lit a blowtorch in Memorial Chapel.
Dr. Ainissa Ramirez—scientist, inventor, former Yale professor, and NMH’s 2013 “Science in the 21st Century” speaker—did the honors. To demonstrate the heat absorption properties of ceramic material, she aimed the blowtorch at a tile like the ones on NASA’s space shuttle; in seconds, the tile grew red-hot... More
Prejudice, racism, religion, sexism, social class, sexual identity, privilege—provocative words, all of them. Together, they constitute the foundation of a new course titled “Diversity and Social Justice,” which was recently approved by the NMH faculty.
The cocurricular course, required for sophomores beginning in fall 2013, will place diversity topics in the context of history, sociology,... More
Like many adventure stories, Kelly Cohun’s started at NMH.
A school trip to Egypt was the first time that Cohun ’96, now a U.S. State Department foreign service officer, travelled outside the country. “It blew my mind,” she said.
Cohun went on to study Arabic and international relations in college and “never looked back.” She has lived in both Saudi Arabia and Argentina while working for the U.S... More