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  • Engda Hagos, assistant professor of biology, works with students in his lab.
    Major grants and Picker Research Fellowship awards for 2014-15 are funding dozens of faculty research projects both on and off campus, with subjects ranging from Middle English punctuation to Russian climate science to the creation of an experimental documentary. For biology professor Endga Hagos, his major grant funding will help continue research into the workings […]
    March 12, 2014
  • Gloria Borger
    Gloria Borger ’74, P’10, chief political analyst for CNN and a member of the first coeducational class to graduate from ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø, will deliver the keynote address at ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø’s 193rd commencement on Sunday, May 18, in Sanford Field House. Borger is CNN’s chief political analyst, appearing daily on The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, The Lead with […]
    March 3, 2014
  • On a recent day in New York City, a dozen students from the on-campus ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Entertainment Group met ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø alumni and toured such locations as Viacom and NBC Universal. The daylong itinerary helped students get great advice and see that a large number of alumni in the entertainment field are part of a strong network […]
    January 31, 2014
  • In a letter to the editor in the Book Review section of today’s New York Times, Howard Fineman ’70 recalled the teaching talent and dedication of Fred Busch. The author of The Stories of Frederick Busch died in 2006 and his posthumous collection of stories has received rave reviews. Fineman, one of Busch’s first students at […]
    January 26, 2014
  • ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø professor Peter Balakian’s essay about the villa where Nazi SS leaders made the plan to annihilate the Jews of Europe was published this week in the Chronicle of Higher Education. The essay comes as events are scheduled around the world in observance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is January 27. That day recognizes the […]
    January 24, 2014
  • Arielle Sperling '14 worked as an intern in Idaho for the Henry’s Fork Foundation.
    Before last summer, Arielle Sperling ’14 hadn’t so much as gone fishing, never mind touched a fish. But during her internship in Ashton, Idaho, Sperling found herself hip-deep in trout. The environmental studies major from White Plains, N.Y., was the only ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø student in a group of researchers who were looking at the habitat selection […]
    January 16, 2014
  • (Editor’s note: Morgan Higgins ’16, of Staten Island, N.Y., who plans on a double major in religion and English, shares 13 photos from a ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Newman Community winter break trip to Italy. Higgins was one of 10 students who participated in the trip organized by university chaplain Mark Shiner.) A group photo (excluding three), from the […]
    January 15, 2014
  • This past week marked the release of a book of stories by one of ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø’s most beloved professors, the late Frederick Busch. The Stories of Frederick Busch was edited by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Elizabeth Strout, a former visiting professor at ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø, and features a selection of short stories that focuses on interpersonal relationships between family […]
    December 5, 2013
  • (This article was written by Allison A. Curley ’04.) For many bleary-eyed parents of infants and toddlers, sleep is a seemingly unobtainable goal. Lori Brier Strong ’98, a Certified Infant and Child Sleep Consultant based out of Austin, Texas, is helping to change that, one family at a time. “If the child’s not sleeping well, […]
    December 2, 2013