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The Max A. Shacknai Center for Volunteerism, Outreach, and Education (COVE) launched its programming for the academic year on Friday, September 7, with its annual 9/11 Afternoon of Service.

According to Assistant Professor of Geology Joe Levy, “The big thaw that Antarctica had been dodging has arrived.” A geomorphologist and field geologist by training, Levy recently worked with what he calls an international dream team of scientists to explore the intensity of permafrost thaw and glacier thinning in the Mcmurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica. The […]

Local residents of all ages and abilities are invited to attend a dynamic community dance workshop with the Taylor 2 Dance Company on Sept. 12, 4:30–6:00 p.m., in ����ý University’s Huntington Gymnasium. In addition, ����ý will also host a performance by Taylor 2 on Sept. 14 at 7:00 p.m. The group will perform two works […]

As the university takes a look back on its history during this Bicentennial year, we pause to think of those lost on this day, 17 years ago. Seven ����ý alumni were killed in the attacks on the World Trade Center and on Flight 93 in Pennsylvania. Sharon Balkcom ’80 – was a political science major […]

����ý University has named Paul B. Mischler, currently deputy chief advancement officer at the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Medicine, as vice president for advancement at ����ý University. He will take up his new post on November 5.

During the summer, ����ý students applied their liberal arts know-how in a variety of real-world settings, and they continue to update the university community on their experiences. Here, Patrick Needham ’20, biochemistry major from Vermilion, Ohio, writes about his work with neurology patients in Leh, Ladakh, India.

While Shannon Duffy ’21 listened to a French tour guide describe the atrocities that took place at a site in the southern town of Collioure, she felt an overwhelming sense of “confliction.” The cheerful atmosphere of the region surrounding her starkly contrasted with its tragic, yet rarely discussed, history. An undeclared environmental biology major from […]

Lindsey Wiley, mathematics and physics double-major from Vienna, Va., writes on her summer research with Professor Beth Parks, analyzing air pollution sources from Uganda.