Winter 2013 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Magazine cover photograph by Will Ash.

The cover of the Winter 2013 issue features a photo of grass tendrils poking out from the snow at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½â€“Morse Mountain Conservation Area.

The image, by photographer Will Ash, is among several dozen published in the book Between Two Rivers: A Year at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½â€“Morse Mountain.

The photograph invites readers to the essay “Beauty and the Brain” by Laura Sewall, director of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½â€“Morse Mountain and a pioneer in the field of ecopsychology.

A new president, Clayton Spencer.

Clayton Spencer, introduced as the college’s eighth president in December 2011, poses in Perry Atrium of Pettengill Hall for photographer Phyllis Graber Jensen for the Spring 2012 issue of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Magazine.

Saying goodbye to Peter Gomes ’65.

That day, Gomes told the incoming class that “the day will come when you’ll discover the necessity of relying upon your inner resources of heart, mind and spirit. And if those have been wisely and zealously cultivated at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, you will not only endure, you will indeed overcome.”