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A second year of funding provided by the Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø will allow faculty researchers to further their exploration of the cultural and religious stewardship of sacred forest ecosystems in Ethiopia. Damhnait McHugh, director of the institute, announced the award to Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø professors Catherine Cardelús (biology), Eliza Kent (religion), Peter Klepeis (geography), […]

[youtube=http://youtu.be/lJDFCH19R20] Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø professors Spencer Kelly and Yukari Hirata have produced the first in what will be a new series of videos designed to communicate the broad societal benefits of a liberal arts education, as well as the particular ways Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø students learn and grow. This first episode of the Looking Through the Liberal Arts series […]

Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø professors are not only beloved by students and alumni of Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø, they often are chosen to lead their professional organizations. That honor has most recently come to chemistry professor Roger Rowlett, who has been elected to serve as president of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) for 2015–2016.

Jessica Graybill, associate professor of geography, is heading to Russia. The winner of a Science and Innovation Fulbright award, Graybill will spend a year studying the social and cultural geographies of climate change in Vladivostok.

Margaretta Burdick ‘14, of Bedford, N.Y.,  has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) to Turkey, where she will serve as an English teaching assistant in a university setting. A double major in political Science and psychology, Burdick first experienced Turkish culture during a brief trip to Istanbul while she was on Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø’s Geneva […]

Here are some facts and figures from Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø’s 193rd commencement, held May 18. — Valedictorian of the Class of 2014 is Alexander W. Hull, of Norwich, Conn. Hull is a chemistry major with a minor in applied mathematics. He graduated summa cum  laude, with high honors in chemistry. He had graduated from Norwich Free Academy […]