From the Lab Bench to the Front Line: Reimagining a Science Career
Pulling on the signature white coat every morning, ensconced in a Yale genetics lab, Althea Grant ’89 could have congratulated herself: her scientific career was right on track. Yet, she was not happy. More than fifteen years later, Althea wears a khaki Public Health Service uniform to her office at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta. Now, she is right where she wants to be. Soul searching, networking and research helped Althea devise and embark on an unusual, even unlikely career shift from a coveted role in lab science to service leadership in public health. Today she brings...
Read MoreMaking Dances: How to render ideas in space and time
Excitement has been building for weeks, and not just among the dancers. Don’t count on talking your way into King Theatre without a ticket. The Winter Dance Concert may be the biggest draw all year on campus. Seats are “sold-out” for the three nights’ run. Some students in the show have been dancing for many years; others made their way to dance tryouts after a football practice last fall. Milton choreographers figure prominently in the program lineup. These students, who earned green lights for their proposals from performing arts faculty last fall, have produced their dances for an...
Read MoreMath Is Strategy: Grade Four Students Make the Decisions
Milton’s fourth graders learn three core tenets of working with numbers: flexibility, efficiency and accuracy. In other words, their teacher Randy Schmidt says, finding the right answer is important, but it’s not quite enough. “Students often come in with just the accuracy part,” Randy laughs, “and that leads to the other important work that we do.” They begin the year reviewing addition and subtraction strategies, as Randy reexamines or introduces multiple strategies for each operation. “Being open to a new strategy when they already have one down is challenging for some...
Read MoreOver Time
From above the fireplace, Headmaster Field’s view of Straus Library then (mid-1950s) and now
Read MoreGirls’ Cross Country Wins ISL Championship
Milton’s cross country runners are league champions. The girls brought home the Independent School League Championship Cup this fall, a feat last accomplished by the program in 1983. “The race was really fast, because the first part of the course was completely flat,” said Maddie Warwick (II). “Many of the girls in the front weren’t giving up. It was harder to pass them, because they stuck with you.” Maddie earned an early lead in the field of 85 runners and never looked back. Milton’s number-one runner finished the 3.1-mile course in sixth place with a time of 20:34. The...
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