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General David H. Petraeus (U.S. Army, retired) will visit campus to speak with students and the local community during Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ’s Family Weekend, Saturday, October 28, at 7:30 p.m. in the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Memorial Chapel. Professor Robert Kraynak, political science professor and director of Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ’s Center for Freedom and Western Civilization will be the host and moderator. […]

Dear Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Faculty, Students, and Staff Members, When those of you who were away return this August, you will notice a number of changes to the campus. Most notably, excavation and construction have begun for the new residence halls located between the COOP, Andrews Hall, and Stillman Hall. The work included the removal of a […]

No one would expect a biostatistics course to draw a crowd of students. But when it’s taught by a dynamic professor with a gift for inspirational teaching, it can become a must-take class at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ. Frank Frey — the associate professor of biology behind Biostatistics as well as numerous courses on evolutionary ecology, community health, and environmental […]

I am writing to announce that Tracey Hucks ’87, MA’90 has been named Provost and Dean of the Faculty. She will return to her alma mater and take up her duties on July 1. Tracey is currently the James D. Vail III Professor at Davidson College and a nationally regarded scholar of American religious history […]

Paul J. McLoughlin II, dean of students at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa., has been named vice president and dean of the college at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ, effective July 26, 2017. McLoughlin has served at Lafayette since 2012, overseeing residential life, recreation services, student conduct, wellness, student leadership and involvement, fraternity and sorority advising, and numerous other campus […]

Last month, while the sports world was reveling in March Madness, entrepreneurs were tuning in to Inc. magazine’s Coolest College Startup competition to see which of 16 ventures would win the 2017 title. This year, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ was the only university represented twice on the brackets — and both ventures made it to the third round […]

Today marks the first of 13 days of special events, lectures, discussions, films, and more to celebrate Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ’s efforts toward becoming a more sustainable university and achieving carbon neutrality by 2019. Day 1: April 10 Kick-Off Celebration The 13 Days of Green will begin with a kick-off event on the Academic Quad, Monday, April 10. Come […]

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ is proud to announce that its applied mathematics minor has graduated to become the university’s 55th major. The consistent popularity of the minor and continued interest from students led to the creation of the full major this year, according to Daniel Schult, Charles G. Hetherington Professor of mathematics. As the name implies, applied mathematics is the […]

Kevin Iglesias ’17, of Silver Spring, Md., has been awarded a Fulbright research grant to travel to Brazil to study public health. Iglesias, a peace and conflict studies major, will conduct research in the city of Salvador, Bahia, on the relationship between black/Afro-Brazilian LGBT identities and ethnic forms of traditional healing in Afro-Matrix Religions (AMR). […]

As Black History Month came to a close, former Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ history professor Jason Petrulis took to Twitter with an important fact from Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ’s past.