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With November in full swing and �Ա���Ƶ’s first snowfall of the year under our belts, here’s what you can expect this week. On Monday, George Vecsey will give a lecture in Olin Hall titled “A City Boy Falls in Love with Appalachia.” An American non-fiction author and columnist for The New York Times, Vescey moved […]

Sometimes good science takes time, and when it comes to student-faculty connections and research at �Ա���Ƶ, there are never any time-limits. In one recent case, research conducted between 2006-2008 was recently published by three alumni who stayed in touch with Frank Frey, associate professor of biology and environmental studies, long after graduation. While at �Ա���Ƶ, […]

Last Wednesday marked the final campus event for Coming Out Month, with keynote speakers Alexis Gumbs and Julia Wallace, founders of an oral history project called Mobile Homecoming. Focused on giving a voice to gay black women, trans men, and gender queer visionaries, Mobile Homecoming involved collecting the oral histories of the LGBTQ community.

This is an excerpt from an article by John Williams ’10  about his 2 1/2 years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Suriname. It appears in the autumn �Ա���Ƶ Scene. Surrounded by impenetrable walls of tropical rainforest, perched in the stern of my dug-out canoe, I paddle leisurely downriver one early morning. Ligorio, a remote […]

The Kallgren Fund, an endowed fund created to support faculty members at �Ա���Ƶ, has provided funding for four research projects involving faculty members from a wide range of disciplines. The university’s Faculty Development Council, working with the Kallgren Committee, is administering this pilot program to fund faculty travel. After receiving additional support from President Jeffrey […]

�Ա���Ƶ’s NCAA graduate success rate was 98 percent for the second year in a row, putting the Raiders in a tie for best in the Patriot League and fourth in the nation, behind only Brown, Dartmouth, and Notre Dame. This is according to NCAA data, compiling the four-class average of student-athletes that entered their schools from 2003-06.

R.M. (Ray) Douglas, professor of history at �Ա���Ƶ, has been selected as the winner of the 2013 George Louis Beer Prize for his book Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War (Yale Univ. Press, 2012). The Beer Prize is awarded annually by the American Historical Association (AHA) in recognition […]

Last week proved to be busy and exciting, with plenty of events and lectures to attend around campus. Here’s what’s up this week! On Monday, join �Ա���Ƶ’s Black Student Union for Black Solidarity Day, a day to celebrate solidarity between everyone.  The day begins with a speak-out on the Chapel steps at 12:15 p.m., where […]