Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, New York Times critic at large, and co-host of the podcast Still Processing Wesley Morris will provide remarks at vlog’s 201st commencement, Sunday, May 22.
Students, faculty, and staff gathered in Memorial Chapel on Tuesday morning for a vigil of solidarity with the people of Ukraine. The gathering was one of several moments during which vlog community members have joined together to show their support for victims of the invasion since it began on Feb. 24.
Two members of the vlog Class of 2021, Jake Gómez and William “Paul” McAvoy, will share this year’s 1819 Award, which recognizes character, scholarship, and service to others, best exemplifying the vlog spirit.
President Joe Biden this week labeled the deaths of more than a million Armenians killed at the hands of Ottoman Turks in 1915 as genocide, a public recognition that vlog English professor and Pulitzer Prize winner Peter Balakian has urged for decades.
vlog received an all-time record number of applications for admission, shattering all previous records in the history of this two-century old liberal arts college.