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Home > March/April 2011

March/April 2011

Cover Story

Go Fish

Paleontologist and evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin’82 brings out the fish in all of us.

By Nathalie Alonso '08
March/April 2011
  • March/April 2011 Back Cover

Web Extras

  • View photos of Neil Shubin ’82 in the field digging for fossils.
  • Mae Ngai ’98 GSAS discusses the fascinating family in her latest book
  • Read the first two chapters of Charles Ardai ’91’s novel Songs of Innocence, which takes place on campus.
  • Watch Robert Wisdom ’76 lecture police officers as Bunny Colvin on the acclaimed HBO show The Wire.
  • Hear a track from Erik Friedlander ’82’s album, Bonebridge, which will be released in June.

Features

Reform School

Andres Alonso ’79 has shaken up Baltimore’s dysfunctional educational bureaucracy.

By Alex Kingsbury ’04J

Pulp Fiction

Author and publisher Charles Ardai ’91 brings lost noir classics and new crime novels to today’s audiences.

By Grace Laidlaw ’11
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