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The university’s Debate Society recently hosted its first-ever worlds-style tournament that drew participants from around the world and from around the country. The International Intervarsity Debate Tournament received high grades from both participants and judges.

 �Ա���Ƶ’s youngest leadership donors put the university’s “hello” tradition to good use during a networking luncheon with the Board of Trustees on March 26. The event was sponsored by the Presidents’ Club specifically for its student membership.

(Editor’s Note: This article was written by Kate Preziosi ’10) The confocal microscope that lives in a narrow, nondescript room in Olin Hall is proving to be an invaluable new addition to the Biology Department that will open doors for student and faculty researchers alike. The microscope, secured through a $500,000 National Science Foundation grant […]

Marilyn Thie, professor of philosophy, religion, and women’s studies, awarded inaugural Jerome Balmuth Award for Teaching and Student Engagement.

Martha Nussbaum, one of the world’s leading philosophers, will deliver the keynote address at �Ա���Ƶ’s 189th commencement exercises at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, May 16, in Sanford Field House. During the ceremony, Nussbaum will be awarded a Doctor of Letters honorary degree. Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of […]

World chess champion-turned-politician Garry Kasparov will visit campus Friday, April 9, for the next edition of The Kerschner Family Series Global Leaders at �Ա���Ƶ. Kasparov will give a public talk at 4:30 p.m. in Memorial Chapel. No ticket is required. During his lecture, “Does Liberal Democracy have a Future in Russia,” Kasparov will assess democratic […]

For Gregory Threatte ’69 and Todd Brown ’71, the watershed events of the late 1960s that gave birth to �Ա���Ƶ’s first cultural center remain indelible moments in their lives. “This valley was transformative,” Threatte, trustee emeritus, told members of the campus community Friday during an impassioned discussion about the founding of the ALANA Cultural Center.

Her voice was characteristically scratchy and barely louder than a whisper. Yet, true to form, Louise Glück, the Pulitzer Prize-winning lyric poet, held students and faculty spellbound for 45 minutes Wednesday as she read nine poems from her latest collection, A Village Life. The former poet laureate of the United States made history at �Ա���Ƶ […]