Professor of English Mara Scanlon was featured in a WWNO segment titled “Walt Whitman and the Nurse.” In the program, Scanlon discussed poet Walt Whitman’s connection to Fredericksburg, where he first witnessed the devastation of the Civil War and was inspired to spend the remainder of the war caring for thousands of wounded soldiers.
Professor of English Mara Scanlon appeared on an episode of With Good Reason radio called “Beyond the Book-Whitmaniacs.” Scanlon told the show’s host about taking her class of self-proclaimed “Whitmaniacs” to the Walt Whitman house in Camden, New Jersey. She says her students were awestruck by being in the intimate spaces where Whitman lived and breathed […]
Professor of English Mara Scanlon will appear on With Good Reason radio, in an episode titled “Beyond the Book,” which will air from July 23 to 29.Outer space probably isn’t in your travel plans this summer. But it could be very soon. Hayley Arceneaux was a SpaceX crew member in the first all-civilian mission to […]
When Shreya Murali was in high school, she got the chance to observe an open-heart surgery. She watched, mesmerized, as the surgeon cut through the sternum to reveal the patient’s beating heart.“At that moment, I knew I wanted to be in that room one day,” said prospective physician Murali, now a rising junior at the […]
