Though I’d never planned on going to a women’s college, I knew the statistics about how graduates of women’s colleges excel in underrepresented fields. With all the coed schools nearby, I knew there’d be balance. I also liked Northampton; it reminded me of Berkeley. MORE »

When NASA astronauts first walked on the moon in 1969, eight-year-old Pamela Melroy was watching. Very few people who saw the Eagle land have forgotten the sight, but for Pam, the experience was more than awe-inspiring-it changed the course of her life. MORE »

Growing up in Shakespeare’s own neighborhood, the Cotswolds, was a fine inspiration for Dr. Susan Ahern. “Elizabethan English is the language that I think and breathe in,” Dr. Ahern says. MORE »