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	Abby Grace Drake’s “Significant” Discovery About Dog Evolution When Abby Grace Drake 93F sees dogs, she doesn’t just see “man’s best friend.” Dogs are “an amazing system to study for evolutionary biology,” Drake says, pointing to their relatively quick evolution as a species and their coexistence with their ancestor, the wolf.
	Dana Pollan's Family Cookbook Encourages Healthy Eating Hampshire College alumna Dana Pollan 80F and her family have always loved cooking and sharing recipes with each other. She and her two sisters—Lori and Tracy—are busy mothers with children to feed, and sometimes get stuck trying to come up with new ideas for dinners.
	Jeff Sharlet 90F Wins National Magazine Award Hampshire alum Jeff Sharlet 90F recently received the National Magazine Award for his reporting for GQ on the challenges that the LGBTQ community faces in Putin's Russia.
	Dana Pollan 80F and The Pollan Family Table The Pollan Family Table, a cookbook coauthored by alumna Dana Pollan 80F, her sisters Lori and Tracy, and her mother Corky, was recently featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today.
	Feb. 16: Writer and Poet Eula Biss 95F Award-winning writer Eula Biss will read from her new book, On Immunity: An Inoculation, on Monday, Feb. 16, at 4 p.m. in the Gallery of the Harold F. Johnson Library.
	Matt Lorenz 00F Makes New Sounds Out of Old Objects Matt Lorenz 00F, the architect and sole member of The Suitcase Junket, sings, strums and plays up to four instruments with his feet, creating a sound that is not easily forgotten.
	Hampshire Alum Evan Viera Animates Coldplay's Interactive Video "Ink" Coldplay’s new interactive video features the animation work of Hampshire College alum Evan Viera 02F.
	'From physics research to human rights advocacy' Physics Today interviews alum Hadi Ghaemi, who also earned his PhD on superresolution microscopy and spectroscopy of nanostructures at Boston University. Ghaemi is now the cofounder and executive director of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran.
	Alum Gabrielle Hamilton 83F Interviewed in Sunday Book Review Alum Gabrielle Hamilton 83F, chef and author of Prune and Blood, Bones and Butter was recently interviewed in the New York Times’ Sunday Book Review.
	Ground Broken for R. W. Kern Center The groundbreaking for the R. W. Kern Center on November 14 marked the official beginning of Hampshire College’s most ambitious building project in decades.