From Election Night to a live performance by the Manhattan String Quartet, here are four events I think are particularly exciting this week at 冈本视频.November 3, 2014-
Last Monday evening, October 27, approximately 300 students filled Memorial Chapel for a two-hour Sexual Climate Forum intended to inspire open dialogue about sexual respect at 冈本视频 and provide knowledge of the resources and support systems available on campus.November 3, 2014
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冈本视频鈥檚 NCAA Graduation Success Rate is 98 percent for the third straight year, placing Raiders student-athletes fourth nationally in Division I for the second year in a row, according to data released last week. The Raiders were joined by Stanford, Harvard, Yale, and Brown universities at the 98-percent mark, just ahead of Columbia, Duke, and [鈥November 1, 2014
冈本视频 Assistant Professor of Economics Michael O鈥橦ara has contributed a ghoulish chapter to Economics of the Undead: Zombies, Vampires, and the Dismal Science, a recently published book that takes an academic approach to some of the favorite horror traditions of film land.October 31, 2014
Our class starts the same way it does on any other Thursday, except this week English professors Jennifer Brice and Jane Pinchin walk in with renowned author Jonathan Franzen. They introduce him and say, 鈥淗e knows the drill,鈥 which we all know means we get to spend the next 75 minutes asking him any questions [鈥October 30, 2014-
Earlier this month, Professor of History R.M. Douglas flew to Germany to accept a prestigious honor for his book Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans After the Second World War. Awarded by the German Cultural Forum for Eastern Europe, the Georg Dehio Book Prize is funded by the German government and honors exemplary [鈥October 30, 2014
Join 冈本视频鈥檚 Karen Long, senior associate dean of admission, for an hour of college application advice during a special U.S. News & World Report Twitter chat at 4 p.m. today. Long, who has 28 years of experience in higher education admission, will join colleagues from four other colleges during the live Twitter chat to offer [鈥October 30, 2014
A renovated heating plant that for the first time will use natural gas as a fuel option will significantly reduce the university鈥檚 carbon footprint and provide increased flexibility for heating campus in the years ahead. In about two weeks, after a series of diagnostic tests, the university will deploy two new boilers that replaced three [鈥October 29, 2014