Campus Happenings

Listed below are some recent educational and extracurricular activities, assemblies, and experiences that students and faculty (and sometimes parents!) have participated in at Horace Mann School.

• The Basement Lions, HM’s robotics team, won their first world championship at a competition in Houston, Texas. The Record covered the story: https://record.horacemann.org/7812/news/basement-lions-motor-to-first-world-championship/

• Alex Posner ’13 discussed his Horace Mann experiences, climate change, and carbon dividends, among other topics at the Community Council Alumni Series on February 28th. Alex is the president of Students 4 Carbon Dividends, a student-led movement that advocates for carbon dividends as a solution for climate change.

• Dr. Alexandra Sakatos ’03, co-founder of Ancilia Biosciences, was the keynote speaker at Horace Mann School’s 11th Annual SciTech event on April 19, 2022. The yearly conference exposes students to career pathways of HM alumni in science and celebrates the accomplished research findings of students in the Upper Division Science Research Program.

• A recent Upper Division assembly featured Angela Saini, award-winning science journalist and author (Superior:  The Return of Race Science; Inferior:  How Science Got Women Wrong and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story; and Geek Nation:  How Indian Science is Taking Over the World) who spoke with students and faculty about how race and science interact.

• The second annual Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Conference focused on the topic, “Planting the Seeds for Female STEM Leaders of the Future.” The virtual event featured keynote speaker Dr. Hao Wu, a professor of structural biology at Harvard Medical School, as well as two panels of college students and accomplished leaders in STEM fields.

• Dr. Jessica Levenstein, Head of the Upper Division, moderated a panel of young alumni during a virtual conversation about life after Horace Mann. Participants included Stephanie Fernandez ’16, Edith Herwitz ’16, Danny Jin ’16, Nicole Kaiser ’16, Alex Lein ’16, Lily McCarthy ’16, Harrison Price ’17, Zachary Troyanovsky ’17, and Grace Warder ’16.

• The Upper Division Race and Ethnicity Speaker Series welcomed Dr. George Sanchez (professor of American studies and ethnicity, and history at the University of Southern California and author of Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945) and Ellen Wu (associate professor in the Department of History at Indiana University and author of The Color of Success:  Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority) for a conversation about race, class, and gentrification, among other topics.

• Dr. Jack Davis (author and professor of environmental history and sustainability studies at the University of Florida) and Dr. Bathsheba Demuth (assistant professor of history and environment and society at Brown University) joined students and faculty to discuss the impact of climate change on disadvantaged regions of the world during the Upper Division Environmental Issues Speaker Series.

• A recent Black Parents Union's "Be Who You Can See" Speaker Series featured Reggie Van Lee, partner and chief transformation officer for The Carlyle Group.

• The Upper Division musical, The Addams Family, entertained the HM community during its three-day run.

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