dickinson magazine
summer 2013
volume 91
number 1
[ contents ] 18 Flowers From the Flood: From smartphones and Google to
Dickinson Published by the Division of Enrollment, Marketing & Communications Publisher and Vice President Stephanie Balmer
government surveillance and DNA databases, the world is awash in data. What are the consequences, and how will we navigate the deluge?
Executive Director of Marketing & Communications Connie McNamara
26 Through a Glass, Sustainably: Ask a dozen experts what
Editor Michelle Simmons Assistant Editor Lauren Davidson
sustainability is, and chances are you’ll get a dozen definitions. The
Contributing Writers Matt Getty MaryAlice Bitts-Jackson Tony Moore
new Baird Sustainability Fellows program tackles them all—one
Student Assistants Carson Koser ’15 Erin Owens ’15 Sasha Shapiro ’15
conversation at a time.
College Photographer Carl Socolow ’77
32 Peace of Mind: From Perestroika to daily
neighborhood disputes, Brad Heckman ’89 mediates the global with
Multimedia Specialist Sarah Sheriff
the local.
Designer Amy Wells Magazine Advisory Group Christina Van Buskirk Gail Birch Huganir ’80 David Richeson Adrienne Su Jim Gerencser ’93 Paula Lima-Jones
34 First Hand: The Trout Gallery’s latest exhibition
highlights the embedded journalism of the American Civil War—and the technology that made it possible.
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