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  • A new list released by Kiplinger this week ranks ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ 10th among the top 100 best values in liberal arts colleges, and 19th overall among all schools ranked for value. Kiplinger’s rankings system is entirely data driven, and their report cites ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ’s student performance for median earnings 10 years after graduation ($61,500), low student […]
    December 18, 2015
  • Jeffrey Sumber ’92 stand in front of a cityscape
    As you gather together with your family for the holidays, check out this alumni profile from the autumn ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ Scene. Jeffrey Sumber ’92 is encouraging couples to take responsibility for their own happiness with his new book, Renew Your Wows: Seven Powerful Tools to Ignite the Spark and Transform Your Relationship. At ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ, Sumber double-majored […]
    December 17, 2015
  • Ephraim Woods teaches Chemical Principles in Olin Hall.
    Deep in the forest, the same chemicals that give pine trees their smell might have a powerful effect on climate change. Sunlight can convert those naturally occurring molecules into secondary organic aerosol (SOA) particles with the potential to change local cloud cover and rainfall patterns. SOAs also help to determine how much sunlight reaches Earth […]
    December 17, 2015
  • People standing outside on a street, waiting for a punk show to begin at ABC No Rio (Photo by Chandler Wood)
    The following post was submitted by Professor Kim Creasap, and published on the Sociology and Anthropology blog. On October 24, 2015, 16 students in SOC 305: Urban Sociology and I traveled to the Lower East Side of Manhattan to conduct mini-ethnographies of various places and spaces in the neighborhood. An important site of New York […]
    December 11, 2015
  • Students talking under the stands at Andy Kerr Stadium before commencement 2015
    According to a recent article by U.S. News and World Report, ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ ranks 10th among universities nationwide for four-year graduation rates. The rankings consider undergraduates who started working on their first bachelor’s degree in 2008. With 89.7 percent of its students graduating within four years according to the report, ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ joins schools like Carleton College, […]
    December 11, 2015
  • animation from the movie NUTS! showing Dr. John Romulus Brinkley, an eccentric genius who built an empire in Depression-era America with a goat testicle impotence cure
    NUTS!, a new documentary film by assistant professor of art and art history Penny Lane, will premiere at next month’s Sundance Film Festival. NUTS! tells the story of John Romulus Brinkley, who, in 1917, offered a cure for impotence by transplanting goat testicles. “Sundance is by far the premiere venue to launch an American independent […]
    December 7, 2015