Romy Carpenter waded at low tide across the mudflat to the water’s edge. Up to her shins in the black muck, she scraped a thin layer of mud into a sieve.Carpenter, a rising junior from Belfast, Maine, was on the hunt for foraminifera — single-celled...
The drawing shows doctors huddled around a dying patient. The patient’s head is turned slightly on a pillow. Her hands are clasped on her chest. Her left eye is wide open. She looks scared.Text underneath the picture, the artist’s handwritten notes,...