Category: Spring 2024

Robb Chavis ’94 helped negotiate the deal that will benefit more than 11,000 screenwriters—and he’s one of them.

Using tools from fMRI to smartphone data, psychology professor Alexandra Rodman ’06 is studying the developing brain and associated changes during adolescence—when, research shows, 75 percent of all psychiatric disorders emerge.

Mik Aoki ’86 began his love for baseball as a young boy in Japan. Over his many years as a coach, he’s come to appreciate the important life lessons his profession has to offer.

Dare to be true is a call to action for making the world a better place.

For Milton’s boarding students, residential life faculty create a strong sense of community.

Ben Rhodes-Kropf ’24 has a message from his father. In order to receive it, he’ll have to travel to Spain.

That’s because his dad left the message through Trace, an app Rhodes-Kropf and classmate Benjamin Siegel ‘24 developed throughout their junior and senior years at Milton. The location-based service combines the functions of a messaging app with the thrill of an in-person treasure hunt, allowing users to “leave a Trace” wherever they are in the world. Messages for other Trace users (or their future selves) are delivered only when the recipient is physically close to the location where the message—in video form—was recorded.

On a warm, sunny fall day, fifth- graders Sophie Kalin and Emily Munko are eager to explain what makes Milton’s buddy program so special.

For Sophie, “It brings back memories of when I was in kindergarten,” and for Emily, “I just love hanging out with the young kids.” Today, they watch as their kindergarten buddy Malachi Camp- bell scoops up wood chips off the ground, carefully arranging them around the legs of one of the playground’s benches. He wants to make sure, he explains, that the bench doesn’t wobble when someone sits down.

The undefeated boys’ soccer team finished its season winning the NEPSAC Class-A finals in a 2–0 victory over Taft. The team, under the leadership of head coach Chris Kane, won the Independent School League (ISL) championship as well.

Also taking home ISL championships in the fall were the volleyball and girls’ cross-country teams.