All News

Assistant Professor of Sociology Matthew Grace recently published “Subjective social status and premedical students’ attitudes towards medical school” in the journal Social Science & Medicine.

Jackson Herndon ’17 is exploring the work of Marx, Nietzsche and Foucault, philosophers who step outside familiar, logical thinking systems and perceive events beyond their immediate and obvious cause and effects.

Driven by a personal history punctuated with cancer loss, Alice Long ’20 has committed herself to learning more about and contributing to the existing knowledge on the incurable disease. “My grandfather, grandmother and a close friend all passed away from esophageal cancer, which has had a lasting effect on the way I perceive life,” said Long. She spent the summer doing cell research at Taiwan's National Tsinghua University.

If you’ve walked or run through the Glen recently and noticed signs that identified where you’re going, you have Hayley Berliner ’19 and Nick Pace ’19 to thank.

Associate Professor of Africana Studies Nigel Westmaas unearthed and published, with an introductory assessment, a significant speech made by a pioneer Guyanese and Caribbean labor leader Hubert Nathaniel Critchlow in March 1932. The Westmaas article, “Hubert Critchlow and the nexus between Christianity and Socialism” was published in Guyana’s national newspaper, the Stabroek News, on Aug. 20.

TJ Daigler ’18 takes job as an account management intern at J. Walter Thompson.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Communication Timothy Recuber recently gave a talk at the Media Sociology Pre-Conference of the American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meetings on Aug. 11.

Hundreds of students, faculty, staff and community members came to the C.H.F. Peters Astronomical Observatory to observe today's solar eclipse.

What do alumnus Josh Simpson ’72; his wife, retired astronaut Cady Coleman; his son Jamey; a bunch of girl scouts; a nine-year-old boy named Jack Davis, who applied to NASA to be the guardian of the galaxy; and a full CNN crew all have in common? They are all together in Blackwell, Missouri, where CNN will be streaming Coleman during the Totality, as she explains the eclipse from her unique astronaut’s perspective.

While most students and faculty were away from campus this summer, the College broke ground for a Health and Counseling Center. The 13,186-square-foot, two-story facility is expected to be completed by July 2018.