The College of Arts and Science’s monthly e-newsletter for alumni, students, faculty and staff.

Galactic Hellcats book cover
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Alumna Marie Vibbert debut novel hits shelves on March 9

Marie Vibbert was 15 years old when she first drafted Galactic Hellcats. From an early age, she knew she wanted to be a writer.  “I don’t know if there has been a minute since I was 11 that I haven’t been writing a novel,” Vibbert said.  In 2012, she revisited that draft of Galactic Hellcats during a write-a-thon where she vowed to write 50 short stories over the course of six weeks. After running out of new ideas, she cracked open old childhood notebooks to discover some really creative ideas written in purple pen. When she flipped to the idea that...

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The Art of Engineering

In October, a panel of five students hosted a talk on “Engineering and the Arts” to share their experiences taking classes in both the humanities and engineering. Their message: This cross-disciplinary approach benefits critical thinking, creative problem-solving and communications. (Pictured, Aparna Paul, panelist and fourth-year student majoring in chemical engineering and English.)

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