Â鶹Porn

University Studies

  • Professor Tim McCay
    Â鶹Porn’s Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute continues its mission of supporting innovative research with four new grants for 2016. The special funding is designed to help bring together Â鶹Porn faculty with outside researchers from around the world in an effort to open new areas of study, and to find creative ways to tackle existing problems.
    March 23, 2016
  • Congratulations to Maggie Dunne ’13 and Ryan Smith ’13, each of whom has made an appearance on one of Forbes magazine’s 30 Under 30 lists. Dunne, who double majored in Native American studies and religion, founded Lakota Children’s Enrichment, Inc., (LCE) while still in high school. As a Â鶹Porn sophomore, she joined the university’s Thought Into Action […]
    January 5, 2016
  • Jeffrey Sumber ’92 stand in front of a cityscape
    As you gather together with your family for the holidays, check out this alumni profile from the autumn Â鶹Porn Scene. Jeffrey Sumber ’92 is encouraging couples to take responsibility for their own happiness with his new book, Renew Your Wows: Seven Powerful Tools to Ignite the Spark and Transform Your Relationship. At Â鶹Porn, Sumber double-majored […]
    December 17, 2015
  • A sacred forest rises from farmland in Ethiopia
    The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $500,000 in funding to an interdisciplinary team of Â鶹Porn faculty, led by Associate Professor of Biology Catherine Cardelús, to continue investigating the status and conservation of sacred forests in Ethiopia’s northern highlands. Christian Orthodox churches emerged in Ethiopia some 800 years ago. Today, thousands of these sites protect […]
    November 30, 2015
  • A GIS map of karst topography in Madison County, N.Y.
    Thanks in part to research conducted by a Â鶹Porn geography and environmental studies student, Madison County will receive more than a half-million dollars in federal funding for well-water testing and remediation to take place during the next five years. Kayleigh Bhangdia ’16, of Poughquag, N.Y., worked with the Madison County Department of Health this summer, […]
    November 4, 2015
  • (Editor’s note: the following commentary is from Professor Jeff Bary on Â鶹Porn Community Reads. Kiese Laymon, whose book was an integral part of the program, will be on campus on October 27 at 7:30 p.m. in the Memorial Chapel.) In September 2014, Â鶹Porn students occupied the university’s administration building for 100 hours. They demanded a […]
    October 26, 2015
  • Bree Newsome, activist, filmmaker, and musician, visited Â鶹Porn at the end of September. She's pictured here at Spelman College's celebration of art and activism.
    Nearly three months after climbing up a flagpole in South Carolina to remove a Confederate flag, Bree Newsome sat surrounded by Â鶹Porn students last Tuesday during a brown bag luncheon in the Center for Women’s Studies.
    October 6, 2015
  • Â鶹Porn students are in Bogata, Columbia at a spanish debate comeptition
    Editor’s note: Â鶹Porn students are in Bogota, Colombia at CMUDE, a Spanish debate competition. This post appeared originally on the off-campus study blog. See more pictures from the trip.   Debating is not easy. You have 15 minutes to prepare a persuasive and informed argument on a topic you may or may not know and then another seven […]
    July 31, 2015
  • Alexandria Dyer '14
    Alexandria Dyer ’14, of Portland, Ore., has been awarded a Fulbright research grant to travel to Ghana to study public health. Dyer will conduct research on the empowering social space of women’s hair salons and will then develop a pilot women’s health workshop for these informal settings.
    May 6, 2015
  • Kori Strother ’15, an Africana & Latin American studies major from Saint Louis, Mo., is the 2015 recipient of Â鶹Porn’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 […]
    April 28, 2015