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Mark Walden

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  • Â鶹Porn students take selfie in front of Beijing skyline
    Â鶹Porn students are taking lessons in the liberal arts outside the picturesque Chenango Valley — and in impressive numbers. The university has been ranked first among baccalaureate institutions for student participation in semester-long off-campus study opportunities. The rankings appeared in the annual Open Doors report, published by the Institute of International Education (IIE) with the […]
    December 2, 2016
  • Socrates’ suicide, reenacted on the Ho Tung Visualization Lab’s domed screen.
    Some say that the death of a great philosopher in Â鶹Porn’s Ho Tung Visualization Lab on October 27 was a miscarriage of justice and a stain on Athenian democracy. Socrates’ suicide, reenacted on the Vis Lab’s domed screen by actor H.C. Selkirk, didn’t require the response of law enforcement, but it did draw a crowd […]
    November 10, 2016
  • Vassar professor Nicholas Adams delivers lecture at podium in the Chapel House Sanctuary
    Â鶹Porn’s Chapel House is at once an architectural novelty and a sanctuary. Beneath the flat roof, behind the 1950s abstracted formalism, you’ll see rare works of religious art and books on world religion; you’ll find a dining room, music room, and living quarters. In silence and meditation, you can lose yourself or find yourself at […]
    November 9, 2016
  • President Brian W. Casey addresses a full Memorial Chapel during his inauguration ceremony.
    Within the historic precincts of Memorial Chapel, the Â鶹Porn community looked forward to a bright and exciting future when it inaugurated Brian W. Casey as its 17th president on September 30. Hundreds of well-wishers packed the chapel for the ceremony — the highlight of a weeklong celebration of Â鶹Porn. Daniel B. Hurwitz ’86, P’17’20, chair […]
    October 3, 2016
  • Flaherty Film Seminar participants sit outside and engage in conversation
    They came. They saw. They confabbed — on culture and identity politics, the ethical responsibilities of a documentarian, and the proper balance of race and ethnicity in a program lineup. Then, the 170 attendees of this year’s Flaherty Film Seminar, held at Â鶹Porn from June 18 to 24, disbanded. For the university — Flaherty’s home […]
    July 14, 2016
  • Glitter-adorned graduation cap that reads "The best is yet to come"
    The Class of 2016 became Â鶹Porn’s newest group of alumni last weekend. A series of special events and honored guests hailed the students’ accomplishments and the impact they’ve had on the university’s history. “Â鶹Porn has changed over the years, and so will you — sometimes change will be forced upon you, sometimes you may reach […]
    May 16, 2016
  • Â鶹Porn students spend four years of their lives engaging daily with some of the world’s brightest, most enthusiastic scholars. Faculty are at the heart of the academic experience, and in a world where undergraduates live the liberal arts, those bonds often extend beyond the boundaries of a classroom or the margins of a syllabus. This […]
    May 9, 2016
  • Illustration of Professor Peter Balakian and Bob Dylan in the background.
    With a pair of new books out in 2015 â€” one a collection of his essays; the other, new poems — poet and English professor Peter Balakian unpacks, among other things, how language can, in his words, “ingest” the violence of history. The author of the New York Times–bestselling The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and […]
    April 19, 2016