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When Reader’s Digest was looking to create a list of the world’s most famous lost treasures, they turned to ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ’s Roy D. and Margaret B. Wooster Professor of the Classics Robert Garland, who offered one of his favorite pieces of missing history. Read the full article online.

Professors Chris Vecsey and Lourdes Rojas-Paiewonsky will share the 2018 Jerome Balmuth Award for Teaching and Student Engagement.

Step back in time with Roy D. and Margaret B. Wooster Professor of the Classics Robert Garland as he shares what it was like in a day in the life of an ancient Athenian. This new animated video was produced by Ted-Ed. Garland’s academic work has been featured in Reader’s Digest, The Wall Street Journal […]

Can knitting be used as an act of defiance? Jennifer LeMesurier, professor of writing and rhetoric at ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ, describes how hands in motion can help make a commotion.

Several ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ alumni are involved with Oscar-nominated documentaries, including David Fialkow ’81, who produced Icarus, and Nick Verbitsky ’91, who co-produced Abacus: Small Enough to Jail.

(Editor’s note: The following piece by Anna Pluff ’20 was originally published in the ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ Maroon News. The deadline to apply for the next SRS program is today. Visit ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ’s SRS webpage for more information. ) The mountains seemed endless as we rode in the comfort of our coach bus from Sarajevo to Tuzla. We were […]

¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ’s Picker Art Gallery unveils an exhibition of This Place Thursday, February 1, as part of a dynamic cooperative among four upstate New York schools designed to enhance opportunities for cross-disciplinary learning in museums. Part of a massive, international project conceived and orchestrated by French photographer Frédéric Brenner, This Place features a variety of perspectives on Israel […]

Assistant Professor of Spanish Marta Perez-Carbonell shares a glimpse inside her contemporary Spanish fiction class in this new video. Students in Perez-Carbonell’s course craft their own short stories in Spanish, which are then collected in a small volume printed by ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ’s Document Services shop. On the last day of class, students read their work out […]

On New Year’s Day 2003, Assistant Professor of Theater Christian DuComb saw his first Mummers’ Parade. Garish costumes and raucous noise drew him to the window of his Philadelphia apartment, where he was captivated by a living history of American performance styles that he believed extinct. The Mummer’s Parade has existed in some form since […]

Editor’s note: Wondering what’s happening in the classroom at ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ? Here’s a real-time glimpse into academic life on campus — a syllabus from a course underway this semester. The Booker Prize: Examining a Prize, Examining an Empire CJ Hauser, Assistant Professor of English MWF 9:20–10:20 AM, Lathrop Hall 314 Course description This class follows the […]