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Several faculty members were recently appointed to distinguished chairs, according to an announcement by Provost and Dean of the Faculty Lyle Roelofs.

Homecoming weekend was a blast! I went to the game, and celebrated a sweet victory over the Georgetown Hoyas. I also was present at President Herbst’s inauguration, and I surely enjoyed that. Because fall recess is coming up, my friends and I had to endure the mid-term exam rush. I could tell the atmosphere was quite different; most […]

Speaking to a packed house at Memorial Chapel, Kwame Anthony Appiah charged his audience with but one task: see one foreign, subtitled film per month. After all, he pointed out, others around the world must do this any time they wish to see popular American movies. Such was the theme of the philosopher’s Oct. 4 […]

(Editor’s Note: This article was written by Kiera Crowley ’13) Close to 200 people gathered at �Ա���Ƶ’s community garden recently for a long-awaited open house. Homemade foods, including bruschetta, fried zucchini, and baked squash — all made from the garden’s produce — were displayed under bright-red tents. The Sept. 23 open house also featured garden […]

While technology is fundamentally altering the landscape of higher education, �Ա���Ƶ’s physical setting and the close-knit community it fosters have positioned it well for the upcoming challenges, Jeffrey Herbst told those gathered Sunday to celebrate his inauguration as the university’s 16th president.

There is no way that I have already been at �Ա���Ƶ for a month; I can’t believe how comfortable I already feel here. Don’t get me wrong, I do get homesick every once in awhile, but there is just too much fun too be had, too much learning to be done, and too many experiences […]

Flanked by a colorful poster board, Maggie Dunne ’13 smiles as she describes her summer as a critical language scholar. Through a scholarship program offered by the U.S. Department of State, Dunne was able to spend ten weeks in Bangladesh, learning Bangla. For four hours each morning she took a language class, and then spent […]

The role of the United States as an active third-party mediator is critical to the future of the beleaguered Middle East peace process, former U.S. Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer told the campus community Tuesday during a lecture in Golden Auditorium. “The degree to which the U.S. assigns priority to the issue is very important,” said Kurtzer, […]