Sammy Segeda ’23 will be teaching English in Laos for the 2025-26 school year through the program. Three students and one other alumna also had impressive success in nationally competitive fellowships.
The new poetry collection from Alyse Bensel ’10, Spoil, explores remarkably personal wounds that remind us that life is lived, suffered, and celebrated on the individual level.
In fall 2024, for the first time, 59 years after Kerr’s death, Washington College offered a course on her work, taught by English professor Elizabeth Foley O’Connor. The course, Feminist Modernism(s): Editing Sophie Kerr, analyzed six of Kerr’s short stories over the semester and contextualized her writing within the literary landscape of her era—literary modernism, a period spanning from the late 1800s through 1939.
26 students are embarking on career building summer internships at prestigious posts across the nation through the Starr Center’s Explore America Program.
