Since coming to the College in 2014 to lead the School of Languages, Cultures, and World Affairs, Dean Antonio D. Tillis has been an impassioned advocate for greater cultural awareness and the importance of international experiences. We caught up with the globetrotting dean to find out more about his literary influences, his taste in music
Last May, Zach Sturman stepped off a plane and into an Eastern European city rife with palpable political tension. Just a little earlier that month, the three Baltic members of NATO – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – had asked the organization to send them each thousands of ground troops to prevent further hostility from Russia. This
Matt “Heater” Heath has this anecdote he likes to tell. It’s about fleas. “It’s a long story,” warns the new Cougars head baseball coach. It goes like this: Fleas are known for jumping – they’ll jump out of almost anything, and they can jump 100 times their height. But if you put a flea in
Imagine running down the track, clearing hurdle after hurdle and being in first place and mere meters away from becoming the Colonial Athletic Association 400-meter hurdles champion. Now, imagine approaching that final hurdle and jumping over it only to have your leg buckle underneath you. Consider the physical and emotional pain as you lie there and watch your
Tiny is huge right now. In fact, there’s a whole movement of people looking to minimize their spaces in order to maximize their lives. For one alumna, she discovered firsthand that big things can come in small packages. by Maura Hogan ’87 I landed a spot on national television for the smallest thing I have
As more women enter the political arena as elected officials and secure positions of power, one economics professor breaks down the numbers to determine how gender may influence legislative decision-making and what that may mean for international relations. by Beatriz Maldonado-Bird A common quip is that in order to be successful in politics women need to
Russia holds an interesting place in the American imagination – a country viewed suspiciously by many through the lens of Cold War rivalries. One student put her graduation on hold in order to learn more about this world and better understand its differences and its commonalities. by Kathleen Holden ’15 I came to the College knowing
#Opportunity: it’d be a fitting hashtag for one of the College’s most effective – and least known – internship programs. Listed formally as the Summer Internship Program in Germany, this three-month excursion is part immersion experience, part on-the-job training – and all impact when it comes to students’ post-graduation employment prospects. “The cultural exposure that these
If the experiment is a bit of a tease, at least it’s all in the name of science. Psychology professor Amy Kolak will walk into a room, place a few toys on a table and prepare to leave. But before walking out, she says one thing to the 2-year-old and his or her parents: “We’re going to play
The World Wide Web, stem cell research, the Hubble Space Telescope, GPS, the Human Genome Project, Google: A lot of global game changers have emerged out of the past quarter century. Twenty-five years ago, we couldn’t have foreseen the transformation in our landscape, the far-reaching impact these developments would have in our daily lives. Now it’s
