Growing up in Western Massachusetts, Juliette Lowe ’21 has been involved with community meal programs addressing local food insecurity for a while. Inspired by these experiences, Juliette started an initiative called Nobody Goes Hungry. Recognizing that many food pantries and meal programs may have a greater need during this pandemic, she has collected donations to put together bags of long lasting, sustainable, and healthy food for those in need. Juliette is distributing these meals at 192-200 Main Street in Greenfield on Fridays. You can contribute to her efforts at https://www.gofundme.com/f/nobody-goes-hungry.

In the face of the global health crisis, Bayard Winthrop ’87, founder and CEO of U.S. textile and garment company American Giant, has pivoted manufacturing at two of the company’s North Carolina plants to address the critical shortage of surgical masks.

American Giant is a San Francisco-based manufacturer of sportswear and casual clothing that sells directly to customers through its website. Its goods are all produced in the United States.

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Bill Creelman ’92 was featured on NPR’s podcast, How I Built This, recounting the road to success with Spindrift—a multi-million dollar beverage company that was

Congratulations to William Kaelin P’11,’14, who was awarded a one-third share in the 2019 Nobel Prize for medical research for his work identifying how cells

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A six year project to restore the Civil War memorial on the Deerfield Common is nearing completion. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association led the early stages of the monument restoration project, and received support from Deerfield Academy and the Class of 1969 (pictured) along the way. Read more. »

Mae Emerson ’19 and Fernanda Ponce ’19 were among 11 area students honored with Peacemaker Awards by the Interfaith Council of Franklin County and Traprock Center for Peace and Justice last week at Greenfield Community College. Emerson said it was a “nice surprise” to be nominated for her work coaching Special Olympic athletes in floor hockey. Ponce said she was “shocked and honored” to be recognized for her work addressing issues of gun violence, immigration, cultural traditions, and institutional racism. Read More. » 

The Boston Musical Intelligencer writes, “Deerfield Academy junior and third-year Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra member Meriel Bizri led off with a strikingly secure and beautifully inflected account of the first movement of the Sibelius Violin Concerto. She has chops aplenty for virtuoso display but chose a work of deep musicality. Fresh from a Boston Symphony Orchestra prize-account of the movement, she obliged on this afternoon with probing poetry, intense emotion, and spot-on technique. As the well-drawn unsettling truculence from the orchestra resolved to noble resignation, Bizri returned with a luscious benediction.”
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Astronomers have captured the first-ever picture of a black hole utilizing a network of telescopes around the globe. Read about Katie Bouman, the 29 year-old

The renowned poet W. S. Merwin died on Friday at the age of 91. Merwin visited Deerfield Academy in October, 2011 while he was poet laureate