Jan 22, 2020 | Alumni Stories
by Tom Moore In 2011, as a junior at Swarthmore College studying studio art, Alex Anderson took a semester abroad to study at the Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute. Jingdezhen, located in Jiangxi Province in southeastern China, is, as described by Ceramic Artist and...
Jan 21, 2020 | What We're Reading
by Colin Roberts, Database and Systems Administrator Though we don’t often think about it, algorithms (automatic processes computers perform, often without any human intervention), increasingly are becoming central to our lives. When one needs to buy a product, find a...
Jan 21, 2020 | Community Stories
by Alison Krupnick It’s 9:00 a.m. on a Tuesday morning and Dominique Daba is on the phone. She’s having the first of dozens of conversations she’ll have in the coming days with families anxious about applying to public school highly capable programs or to...
Nov 18, 2019 | What We're Reading
by Derek Rogers, Director of College Counseling Within the world of higher education, the prospects of major demographic shifts in the United States have been widely discussed. Recent projections by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) have...
Nov 15, 2019 | Community Stories
by Alison Krupnick If Jami Bess came to visit after you’d just had a baby, you would feel enveloped in the warmth of her presence, which feels like a virtual hug. Bess is an Outreach Doula Program Manager with Open Arms Perinatal Services, a community-based...
Nov 15, 2019 | Alumni Stories
by Tom Moore Although May-Lannie Lozano and Miles Welsh (Cohort 4) and Menbere Kebede (Cohort 5) graduated from college several years ago and are many years removed from the Rainier Scholars educational baptism by fire that is the Academic Enrichment Program (AEP), in...
Sep 9, 2019 | What We're Reading
by Sarah Smith, Executive Director In mid-August, The New York Times published a groundbreaking project created and curated by MacArthur Genius Award Winner Nikole Hannah-Jones entitled The 1619 Project. In her work, Ms. Jones challenges us to think of the year 1619,...
Sep 9, 2019 | Alumni Stories
by Alison Krupnick, Marketing and Communications Director Pari Abdolhosseini kept her UW Medical School acceptance a secret from her parents for three months. In fact, during the year she spent taking the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT) and preparing her...
