Gifts to Never Forget
Philanthropists like Anita Zucker are bolstering the College’s Holocaust studies in the Jewish Studies Program.
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The DNA of Great Teaching
Biology professor Chris Korey helps students question the world around them.
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Campus Icon: Jane Reno-Munro
She takes their blood. She pokes them with needles. She insists they say “ah” as they choke on tongue depressors. And yet, she manages to make everything a little better. Ever since arriving on campus as head nurse in 1992, Jane Reno-Munro has done everything in her power to make students feel their best –
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The Shrimp Whisperer
Biology professor Melissa Hughes and her students are finding out what shrimp are really saying.
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A Classic Accompaniment
They dined one table over from George Lucas. They explored the vineyards at Skywalker Ranch. They enjoyed the state-of-the-art technology of Skywalker Sound. But, for Marc Regnier and his fellow musicians, the best part about recording a CD together was, well, recording a CD together. “Being contracted by a record company is rare in our
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Generations Crossing
For one family, life finds an unusual intersection in the College’s classroom.
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Inside the Academic Mind: Joe Weyers
Joe Weyers is a student favorite at the College. Since 1995, he’s made learning Spanish a fun and rewarding experience, helping students to think beyond conjugations and successfully navigate the preterite and imperfect tenses. Professor Weyers took a few minutes to share his thoughts on learning a language, his favorite place to unwind and
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The Butterfly Effect
It’s no walk in the park when Tom Smith ’03 goes butterfly catching. Actually, it’s a slog through the mud. Donning an old pair of sneakers and pants, he wades into South Carolina’s freshwater marshes in pursuit of his quarry, slipping past sawgrass, snakes and alligators. He wears a backpack stuffed with glass jars
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Dark Lords on Campus?
When it comes to film and television, the representative professor of the college experience tends to reside in the English department. More often than not, this esteemed scholar – stereotypically haughty, brilliant, tortured and seductive – plays the unenviable role of the serpent in the garden. One of the College’s English faculty members weighs in
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Native Son
For years, bumper stickers have been telling us to “Think Global, Act Local.” But for this biology major, that messaging should be updated so that people now think and act local. His is an environmental cause that everyone can embrace because no matter where you are, it’s right in your backyard. by Nicholas Boatwright When