Santa Cruz Sentinel: Diffenbaugh Named American Geophysical Union Fellow
Santa Cruz Sentinel, 12/14/2020, “Diffenbaugh Named American Geophysical Union Fellow.” Read online Article pdf
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Alumnus Noah Diffenbaugh (’92) Awarded American Geophysical Union Fellowship and Honors
Alumnus Noah S. Diffenbaugh, of the Mount Madonna School (MMS) class of 1992, was recently named as a 2020 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fellow and recipient of the AGU’s William Kaula Award. Diffenbaugh is a professor of Earth System Science at Stanford…
Santa Cruz Sentinel: Resident Remembers Attack on Pearl Harbor
An interview by Cyrus Kamkar (’18) with friend and WWII veteran James “JP” Petersen of Santa Cruz Santa Cruz Sentinel, Santa Cruz History, “Resident remembers attack on Pearl Harbor,” by Cyrus Kamkar. December 7th, 1941; the date that changed the course of…
Santa Cruz Sentinel, “A Vital Sense of Patriotism” by Cyrus Kamkar (’18)
Santa Cruz Sentinel, 11/11/2020, “A vital sense of patriotism,” by Cyrus Kamkar (’18) Download pdf
A Vital Sense of Patriotism by Cyrus Kamkar (’18)
We are approaching Veterans Day in a time overwhelmed with bitter partisanship, a slow and halted economy, and fear of losing loved ones from unfamiliar forces. Although the circumstances are different, the roots of the struggles are much the same from past…
Connection, 2019-20
The Connection, 2019-20, an annual publication for families, friends and alumni of Mount Madonna School. Click on the above image to load and view the content in a ‘page-turning’ format or download the PDF. (Hi-res PDF)
Everything We Needed to Hear: Students’ 2018 Interview with Congressman John Lewis
“Our interview with Congressman John Lewis in 2018 was, without our knowing it, the last for the Mount Madonna School students,” shares teacher Sadanand Ward Mailliard. “Over the years, our Values in World Thought class students had the privilege of a dozen…
Heeding a Call for Help: Dr. A.M. Kilpatrick Becomes a COVID Resource to the Broader Community
An interview with Dr. A.M. Kilpatrick (‘90) by Lara Kilpatrick (‘85) Auston Manoja “Marm” Kilpatrick (‘90), now professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) and an internationally recognized expert in infectious diseases and their emergence,…
Alumna Shruti Swamy (’03) has Short Story Collection Published
Congratulations to alumna Shruti Swamy (’03) on having her short story collection, A House is a Body, published! “Swamy’s A House Is a Body will not simply be talked about as one of the greatest short story collections of the 2020s; it will change…
Stanford University News: COVID-19 Provides Rare Opportunities for Studying Natural and Human Systems
Stanford University News, 7/29/2020, “COVID-19 provides rare opportunities for studying natural and human systems according to researchers at Stanford and other institutions,” by Rob Jordan. The researchers – inlcuding MMS alumnus Noah Diffenbaugh (’92) – hypothesize outcomes of the pandemic’s unprecedented socioeconomic…