Recent work for the Chronicle of Higher Education
October 5, 2018

Student parents at Endicott College

Audrey Hoelscher, 3, uses a highlighter to draw on the back of some of her mother Anna Grimes's, 21, classwork in the Bayview Hall dormitory apartment where they live at Endicott College in Beverly, Massachusetts, USA. At left, pictures and toys in Audrey's room are visible. Anna is a senior studying Political Science with a minor in Environmental Studies. Both she and Audrey have rooms in the dorm apartment that they share with another mother and child. She has attended Endicott for the past 2 years, having transferred from Lakeland Community College in Illinois after earning an Associate's Degree. The family is part of the Keys to Degrees program, which helps young parents earn degrees by giving them a traditional college experience. At the community college in Illinois, Anna said that she didn't really fit in with the community. All she did, she said, was "wake up, take Aud to school, go to classes, go to work, and go home." At Endicott, living on campus in a dorm apartment shared with another mother and child, she says she can take Audrey to just about anything. "I feel part of the community. Audrey knows more people than I do," she said with a laugh. CREDIT: M. Scott Brauer for The Chronicle
Anna Grimes, 21, plays with her daughter Audrey Hoelscher, 3, in the Bayview Hall dormitory apartment where they live at Endicott College in Beverly, Massachusetts, USA. Anna is a senior studying Political Science with a minor in Environmental Studies. Both she and Audrey have rooms in the dorm apartment that they share with another mother and child. She has attended Endicott for the past 2 years, having transferred from Lakeland Community College in Illinois after earning an Associate's Degree. The family is part of the Keys to Degrees program, which helps young parents earn degrees by giving them a traditional college experience. At the community college in Illinois, Anna said that she didn't really fit in with the community. All she did, she said, was "wake up, take Aud to school, go to classes, go to work, and go home." At Endicott, living on campus in a dorm apartment shared with another mother and child, she says she can take Audrey to just about anything. "I feel part of the community. Audrey knows more people than I do," she said with a laugh. CREDIT: M. Scott Brauer for The Chronicle
Anna Grimes, 21, plays a hide-and-seek game with her daughter Audrey Hoelscher, 3, in the Bayview Hall dormitory apartment where they live at Endicott College in Beverly, Massachusetts, USA. Anna is a senior studying Political Science with a minor in Environmental Studies. Both she and Audrey have rooms in the dorm apartment that they share with another mother and child. She has attended Endicott for the past 2 years, having transferred from Lakeland Community College in Illinois after earning an Associate's Degree. The family is part of the Keys to Degrees program, which helps young parents earn degrees by giving them a traditional college experience. At the community college in Illinois, Anna said that she didn't really fit in with the community. All she did, she said, was "wake up, take Aud to school, go to classes, go to work, and go home." At Endicott, living on campus in a dorm apartment shared with another mother and child, she says she can take Audrey to just about anything. "I feel part of the community. Audrey knows more people than I do," she said with a laugh. CREDIT: M. Scott Brauer for The Chronicle
Anna Grimes, 21, and her daughter Audrey Hoelscher, 3, live in the Bayview Hall dormitory while Anna completes her undergraduate degree at Endicott College in Beverly, Massachusetts, USA. Anna is a senior studying Political Science with a minor in Environmental Studies. She has attended Endicott for the past 2 years, having transferred from Lakeland Community College in Illinois after earning an Associate's Degree. The family is part of the Keys to Degrees program, which helps young parents earn degrees by giving them a traditional college experience. At the community college in Illinois, Anna said that she didn't really fit in with the community. All she did, she said, was "wake up, take Aud to school, go to classes, go to work, and go home." At Endicott, living on campus in a dorm apartment shared with another mother and child, she says she can take Audrey to just about anything. "I feel part of the community. Audrey knows more people than I do," she said with a laugh. CREDIT: M. Scott Brauer for The Chronicle

Portraits of MIT Media Lab Professor Mitchel Resnick

Mitchel Resnick is the LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research, Director of the Okawa Center, and Director of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Resnick recently published the book, "Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play" which discusses new technologies and strategies for engaging young people in creative learning.
Mitchel Resnick is the LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research, Director of the Okawa Center, and Director of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Resnick recently published the book, "Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play" which discusses new technologies and strategies for engaging young people in creative learning.
Mitchel Resnick is the LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research, Director of the Okawa Center, and Director of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Resnick recently published the book, "Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play" which discusses new technologies and strategies for engaging young people in creative learning.

No Boundary Thinking seminar at the University of Rhode Island with Prof. Bryan M. Dewsbury

Katelyn Cinquegrana (center; 24, senior, Writing and Rhetoric) speaks during a group presentation during a class called "What's the Big Idea," a No Boundary Thinking-style seminar class, at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, Rhode Island, on Thurs., April 19, 2018. The class is led by Bryan M. Dewsbury, an Assistant Professor in the University of Rhode Island's Department of Biological Sciences. Students in the class take on a single major cultural issue--this semester the subject is CRISPR genetic editing technology--and discuss possible problems and propose solutions through presentations and discussions. This group's presentation was about "Universal CRISPR Care," private- and tax-funded proposal to allow equal access to the technology. On this day, two groups gave presentations and Dewsbury and other students assessed their ideas and presentation techniques. Dewsbury is an Assistant Professor in the University of Rhode Island's Department of Biological Sciences. Credit: M. Scott Brauer for the Chronicle
Assistant Professor Bryan M. Dewsbury (left) speaks during a class called "What's the Big Idea," a No Boundary Thinking-style seminar class, at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, Rhode Island, on Thurs., April 19, 2018. Students in the class take on a single major cultural issue--this semester the subject is CRISPR genetic editing technology--and discuss possible problems and propose solutions through presentations and discussions. On this day, two groups gave presentations and Dewsbury and other students assessed their ideas and presentation techniques. Dewsbury is an Assistant Professor in the University of Rhode Island's Department of Biological Sciences. Credit: M. Scott Brauer for the Chronicle
Nazaret Suazo (right; 19, soph, Psychology) speaks during a group presentation during a class called "What's the Big Idea," a No Boundary Thinking-style seminar class, at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, Rhode Island, on Thurs., April 19, 2018. The class is led by Bryan M. Dewsbury, an Assistant Professor in the University of Rhode Island's Department of Biological Sciences. Students in the class take on a single major cultural issue--this semester the subject is CRISPR genetic editing technology--and discuss possible problems and propose solutions through presentations and discussions. This group's presentation was about the ethical issues surround CRISPR. On this day, two groups gave presentations and Dewsbury and other students assessed their ideas and presentation techniques. Dewsbury is an Assistant Professor in the University of Rhode Island's Department of Biological Sciences. Credit: M. Scott Brauer for the Chronicle
Bryan M. Dewsbury is an Assistant Professor in the University of Rhode Island's Department of Biological Sciences, photographed here near his office in the Center for Biotechnology and Life Sciences on the school's campus in Kingston, Rhode Island, on Thurs., April 19, 2018. Credit: M. Scott Brauer for the Chronicle

Portraits of Northeastern professor Suzanna Walters

Suzanna Walters is Professor of Sociology and Professor and Director of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Suzanna Walters is Professor of Sociology and Professor and Director of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Portraits of MIT Professor Daniel Jackson

Daniel Jackson is a Professor of Computer Science and MacVicar Teaching Fellow in the Software Design Group at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) and Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Daniel Jackson is a Professor of Computer Science and MacVicar Teaching Fellow in the Software Design Group at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) and Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Daniel Jackson is a Professor of Computer Science and MacVicar Teaching Fellow in the Software Design Group at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) and Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Jackson is an avid photographer and he is seen here with a photo he took of a server rack in the STATA Center, where his office is located.

The Past & Future of Prison Education at Harvard with Michelle Jones

Michelle Jones (in blue), who had been imprisoned for 20 years and is now a doctoral student at New York University after being denied entry at Harvard, speaks during a panel discussion, "The Past & Future of Prison Education at Harvard" in Sanders Theatre in Memorial Hall at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. The panel included academics and prison activists from around the country. The panel was part of a three-day series of events on the campus called "Beyond the Gates: The Past and Future of Prison Education at Harvard." CREDIT: M. Scott Brauer for The Chronicle
Paul Henry Grice III (in red plaid), a former prisoner and the executive director of Liberation Literacy, speaks during a panel discussion, "The Past & Future of Prison Education at Harvard" in Sanders Theatre in Memorial Hall at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. The panel included academics and prison activists from around the country. The panel was part of a three-day series of events on the campus called "Beyond the Gates: The Past and Future of Prison Education at Harvard." CREDIT: M. Scott Brauer for The Chronicle
Michelle Jones (in blue), who had been imprisoned for 20 years and is now a doctoral student at New York University after being denied entry at Harvard, takes part in a panel discussion, "The Past & Future of Prison Education at Harvard" in Sanders Theatre in Memorial Hall at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. The panel included academics and prison activists from around the country. The panel was part of a three-day series of events on the campus called "Beyond the Gates: The Past and Future of Prison Education at Harvard." CREDIT: M. Scott Brauer for The Chronicle
Rally-goers walk from Harvard Yard to Memorial Hall after a rally of University Hall for a Rally for Prison Education at Harvard at Harvard University in Harvard Yard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, on Tues., March 6, 2018. The rally organizers said that the rally "aims to send a message to the Harvard administration that students want Harvard to offer mixed classroom college courses in Massachusetts prisons." It was part of a three-day series of events on the campus called Beyond the Gates: The Past and Future of Prison Education at Harvard. Later in the evening, a panel of speakers addressed prison education and incarcerations in a discussion entitled "The Past & Future of Prison Education at Harvard," in Sanders Theatre in Memorial Hall. CREDIT: M. Scott Brauer for The Chronicle

Portraits of Harvard sociologist Nathan Glazer

A miniature statue or puppet in the likeness of Nathan Glazer stands in his living room. The statue was made by Timothy Moynihan, the son of Glazer's collaborator and US Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Glazer couldn't remember Timothy's exact quote about the statue but said it was something like, "There are statues of Karl Marx everywhere, and none of Nathan Glazer!" Nathan Glazer is an sociologist, writer, and academic, who taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard University. He is seen here, at age 94, in his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a few blocks from Harvard's campus, on Fri., June 16, 2017.
Nathan Glazer is an sociologist, writer, and academic, who taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard University. He is seen here, at age 94, in his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a few blocks from Harvard's campus, on Fri., June 16, 2017.

For the Chronicle of Higher Education and its magazine, I've photographed portraits, protests, seminars, and student parents, around New England in recent months. These are a few favorites from those assignments. Thanks, as always, to Rose and Erica for all the work!

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