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On Thursday, students who have been studying a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel got to hear straight from the horse’s mouth just what it took to write it — and ask him detailed questions about what intrigued, confused, or enlightened them in their reading of his book. Jeffrey Eugenides, author of Middlesex, spent 75 minutes with the […]

William Skelton, who took generations of 51�Թ��� students on the India Study Group that he created and who founded the 51�Թ��� Concert Orchestra, passed away Sept. 23. Skelton, Robert Ho Professor of Asian studies and professor of music emeritus, joined the 51�Թ��� faculty in 1954 as a music professor. He directed the chamber band, 65-voice […]

Next week, 45 area sixth- through 10th-graders with a passion for writing will spend five days on the 51�Թ��� campus stretching their imaginations and discovering new ideas through the act of writing. The Young Writers’ Workshop offers a chance to experience writing in a community of peers, instructed by noted writers from a variety of […]

According to Buddhist teaching, giving is an act that can transform and purify the mind. On Tuesday at the ALANA Cultural Center, approximately 30 members of the 51�Թ��� community took part in a 2,500-year-old Sri Lankan Buddhist ceremony of alms giving called a Dana.

You can really clean up with $700. Just ask the students in economics professor Nicole Simpson’s Immigration course. The first-year seminar analyzes the causes and consequences of immigration in America, and Simpson often looks for opportunities to give her students service-learning experiences that reinforce what they learn in class.

On a late Wednesday afternoon in 51�Թ���’s Ryan dance studio, a dozen students were gathered on the floor in a circle, intensely deconstructing a short video clip they had just watched, of a frenetic, kinesthetic scene that was part dance, part theater, part music. The students — dancers, singers, actors, and one self-described “seeker” — […]

It pays to coach Little League. For Kevin Briody ’85, it led to a Daytime Emmy award. While coaching his son Cavan’s Triple-A baseball team in Ridgefield, Conn., Briody, a folk singer-songwriter, had made the acquaintance of another player’s dad, who also happened to be a songwriter. In fact, he was Paul Glass, music supervisor […]

The act of creating something is both a tangible enterprise, and an empowering exercise. Knowing this full well, artist Tim Rollins, who recently visited 51�Թ���, has given inner-city youths a concrete reason to pursue literacy and a path to achievement for more than 20 years. He and his Kids of Survival (KOS) read and discuss […]