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A jungle ranger, an alchemist, a nomadic bard, and a cleric of the sun goddess struggle to save a fantasy desert region from a war fueled by racial discrimination. In other words, a small group of �������ϲ� students, staff, and faculty members are gathered together in the Coop for their weekly role-playing game session. This group […]

Behind only California Institute of Technology and ahead of MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, Yale and many others, �������ϲ� today was ranked second-highest among four-year schools for “value-added” with respect to mid-career earnings. A new report from the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program, titled Beyond College Rankings, a Value-Added Approach to Assessing Two- and Four-Year Schools, is the first […]

Kori Strother ’15, an Africana & Latin American studies major from Saint Louis, Mo., is the 2015 recipient of �������ϲ�’s 1819 Award, the highest student honor granted by the university. The 1819 Award is given annually to one student representing character, sportsmanship, scholarship, and service above and beyond their peers. While this year’s winner represents […]

Douglas A. Hicks announced he will be concluding his term as �������ϲ�’s provost and dean of the faculty at the end of this academic year.

If you’ve walked into James C. �������ϲ� Hall on a Monday afternoon, you might have heard unfamiliar yet intriguing musical sounds flowing out of classroom 209. That’s �������ϲ�’s brand-new Balinese Gamelan Ensemble rehearsing; their concert is tonight.

One of �������ϲ�’s best-known professors will reach more than 3,000 people from more than 100 countries in the university’s first public, open, online course, Greeks at War: Homer at Troy, beginning Monday. Robert Garland, Roy D. and Margaret B. Wooster Professor of the classics will teach the university-quality course on the �������ϲ�X platform.

As we head into the last week of classes and students prepare for finals, some of this week’s events can offer a little break.

As the world commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide today, �������ϲ� professor Peter Balakian continues to press the U.S. government to join a growing number of nations and dignitaries, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and Pope Francis, to publicly denounce and formally brand the killings as genocide. Balakian, a descendant of survivors of […]