The robotics team started off the spring season with three robots qualifying for the U.S. Open Robotics Championship. Unfortunately, that tournament and two other spring championship tournaments were canceled because of...
Read MoreEmma Bradley ’20 and Kiran Biddinger ’20 wanted to perform a “complicated” lab experiment for the Honors Biology class they took as juniors. One year later, their findings were published in the Journal of Emerging Investigators,...
Read MoreThree-term U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky discussed his translation of Dante’s Inferno last winter with students taking “Founding Voices: Literature from the Ancient World through the Renaissance.” In a free-flowing...
Read MoreThe weekly crossword puzzle of Margot Becker ‘20 was a fun and challenging Friday must-do for many students and adults around campus. Individuals and teams of students rushed each week to complete the challenging 15×15 published...
Read MoreA “remarkable” number of student writers and artists were recognized by the Massachusetts Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, the nation’s longest-running competition to identify creative talent among students. Thirty-one...
Read MoreUsing research conducted on three continents, Jana Amin ’21 has been working for nearly two years to deepen the understanding of a 20th-century Egyptian princess whose story was only partially told. Princess Fawzia Fuad, at one...
Read MoreEven when they’re fully committed to a character, the best improvisers bring their own personalities to their performances, says improv performer Gemma Soldati ’09. Soldati and her comedy partner, Amrita Dhaliwal, visited improv...
Read More“How would you engage in your life if you knew you were wonderful just as you are?” the clinical psychologist Adia Gooden asked Milton students. “I want you to think about what you would have the courage to do if you knew you...
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Heather Sugrue, who this past summer became the new Upper School academic dean, has witnessed two decades of Milton Academy as a math teacher, a house head, and most recently, the math department chair. She replaces Jackie Bonenfant, whose role has transitioned to dean of academic initiatives. In a recent interview, Heather discussed the joy of teaching math, her excitement about her new position, and what makes Milton students so special.
Read MoreWhen an act of legislation ends legal discrimination, it does not automatically end oppression or abuses of power, said scholar and activist Jamal Grant at an assembly hosted by the student clubs Students Interested in Middle...
Read MoreTwo birds in flight, a swimming shark, and a fanged fish are just a few of the sculptures that make up the Creatures Great and Small exhibit outside the Art and Media Center (AMC). Each of the eight pieces is done by a different...
Read MoreRapper and singer Jidenna Mobisson ’03 returned to campus as part of the expanded Transition Program (see page 32), serving as the keynote speaker for new students of color and international students, and as a panelist in a...
Read MorePoor air quality, asbestos dumping, and lack of green spaces are just a few of the environmental issues that residents in lower-income city neighborhoods face on a daily basis. Twenty-two students from the Activism for Justice...
Read MoreNick Morton ’02 was a few weeks into his senior year at Milton when the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, stirred in him the need to serve. Before graduating from Milton, he enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserve — and began a...
Read MoreIt’s one thing to learn how a bill becomes a law. It’s another thing entirely to step into the shoes of a lawmaker. American Government and Politics students spent a morning in Boston last fall at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute...
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