Dawn Sumner, an associate professor of geology, wrote the following essay for the campus's new initiative, My Personal Compass: My personal compass is a Brunton. It is orange and has "SUMNER" engraved ...

When I read the "My Personal Compass" announcement, I remembered an epiphany I had recently about my grandmother and the impact she had on my life. I always knew she was an important part of my ...

A conventional compass points north (well, to magnetic north, anyway). [Videoschmideo] wanted to make a compass that pointed somewhere specific. In particular, the compass — a wedding gift — was to ...

Maggie Lee's personal compass has always pointed toward the water. Sometimes she ignored it, or didn't have time to follow it. But the pull ultimately proved too strong to resist. Lee grew up ...