“We’re seeing tremendous student interest in independent, entrepreneurial learning.” —Dean of Faculty Ron Kim
Team Origami clockwise from top right: Conrad Diao ’15, Millie Dunstan ’15, Anjali Banerjee ’15 and Thomas Clark ’14.
outlet and there’s almost no application.” “We’re seeing tremendous student interest in independent, entrepreneurial learning,” says Dean of Faculty Ron Kim, citing as indicators Biology 470, in which Exonians work with medical research leaders at Stanford University, and the increasing number of professional internships sponsored by PEA. “Next year we’re launching more courses that will give students independent research and multidisciplinary opportunities, including Epistemology, which combines religion, science and theater, and an advanced history option,” Kim says.
The Runway It’s 5:30 on the evening of May 28. All three teams are in the studio, and tension is in the air. Dunstan and Diao are taking turns at a sewing machine, feverishly working to com-
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ple effects, including record-breaking numbers of national winners in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, an Annual Senior Show described by Lamont Gallery Director Lauren O’Neal as stunning in its diversity of new “types of work and materials investigations,” and increased participation—the 3D Design: Tech + Form + Fashion and Printmaking courses have doubled enrollments for next year. Perhaps the best gauge of value is from the students. For Banerjee, who says, “I’d be at a STEM-based school if I weren’t at Exeter,” the ability to combine all her interests in realworld problem solving has made the difference. “I’m more interested in general design and not necessarily ‘hardcore’ art. But, art is important. If you’re in a main sort of STEM-based program, there’s no creative