Swarthmore College

08/24/2026

Registration is now open for Garnet Weekend 2026! 🎉 Join us on campus October 30–31 as we bring together Swatties, families, alumni, and friends for a weekend celebrating the people, traditions, and community that make Swarthmore special.

https://www.swarthmore.edu/garnet-weekend-2026

08/24/2026

From Colorado to Swarthmore by bike. Incoming first-year Finn Fremstad has spent the past month cycling nearly 2,000 miles from his home in Fort Collins to campus, through heat waves and torrential storms. Read more about his journey to Swarthmore.

Finn Fremstad has spent nearly a month traversing the country by bike as he makes his way to college move-in.

08/20/2026

Assistant Professor of Engineering Will Johnson recently published a paper in Nature Machine Intelligence entitled "Impact-resistant autonomous robots inspired by tensegrity architecture."

Full story in comments below.

08/17/2026

The fall semester is nearly here, and we're feeling a bit nostalgic.

Alums, do you still have the plant you received during Swarthmore's plant giveaway? If so, we want to see it!

Share a photo in the comments, or email us at [email protected], and tell us how long you've had your plant. We'd love to see how much it's grown over the years! 🌿

08/13/2026

Summer reading goals: crushed. 📚 Swarthmore staff read over 462,000 pages and listened to more than 6,500 hours of audiobooks this summer.

The Libraries celebrated with a summer reading party and some well-deserved awards. 🏆

08/11/2026

The Swarthmore College Athletic Department was celebrated as the 2026 Team IMPACT Division III Campus of the Year, announced by the organization at its annual summit in Boston last month. The Garnet were one of three campuses recognized for their fellows' outstanding efforts to foster a culture of belonging, advocacy, and impact throughout the past year.

The Swarthmore College Athletic Department was celebrated as the 2026 Team IMPACT Division III Campus of the Year, announced by the organization at its annual summit in Boston last month.

08/06/2026

A summer of research, on display.

S3P Scholars from the Class of 2030 shared their work in Singer Atrium, exploring the impacts of nano and microplastics on plant photosynthesis.

08/03/2026

Celebrating 150 years of international students at Swarthmore 🌍

“The 1875” highlights the stories, connections, and impact of students from around the world. It is one part of our newly released Summer Bulletin, which explores Swarthmore as a global community.

https://magazine.swarthmore.edu/issue/summer-2026/the-1875/

07/31/2026

From the Missouri River floodplain 🌿

Aaliyah ’27, an Environmental Studies major and Biology minor, spent the summer in the field as a research assistant with the University of Georgia Odum School of Ecology. The work focused on wetland health and amphibian biodiversity, collecting water quality data, sampling for species diversity, and mapping sites using GIS.

One highlight: discovering a small pool of longtail tadpole shrimp, a prehistoric species that has remained unchanged for hundreds of millions of years.

Looking ahead, Aaliyah hopes to continue working outdoors in conservation research.

07/30/2026

The latest issue of the Bulletin is here.

This summer, we look at Swarthmore as a global community, past and present. Discover a powerful story of welcome during WWII, honor 150 years of international students, and see how faculty are shaping conversations around the future of AI.

Take a look at the full issue.

In this issue: A Story of Welcome, The 1875, A Full Circle Moment, and much more...