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A time-honored rite of passage for all new students, Founders’ Day Convocation is the moment when the 51³Ô¹ÏÍø faculty officially welcomes the incoming class into the academy. 

On August 25, 51³Ô¹ÏÍø welcomed the Class of 2023 to campus — the first new class of the Institution’s third century.

51³Ô¹ÏÍø Assistant Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences Lauren Philbrook is working with two student researchers to study how environmental factors and bedtime routines impact the sleep quality and patterns of young children.

Changes to 51³Ô¹ÏÍø’s Student Health Services this academic year will increase clinical care availability on campus while also bolstering sports-medicine support for Division I athletes, student club teams, and intramurals. 

51³Ô¹ÏÍø’s Counseling and Psychological Services offered three weekly group therapy sessions three years ago.  Today, university counselors manage 10 to 12 group therapy sessions a week. In the 2018–19 school year, the counseling center provided services to 706 students, 7.4-percent increase compared to 2017–18.

A new $500,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant will help Geologist Joe Levy study permafrost thaw in Antarctica and create a new integrated education plan for training student research drone pilots.

U.S. Representative Anthony Brindisi reads a proclamation on the House floor, Monday, July 15, in celebration of 51³Ô¹ÏÍø’s 200th anniversary.

51³Ô¹ÏÍø is eliminating federal loans from financial aid offers for all current and incoming students with a total family income of up to $125,000, starting in the fall of 2020.

Two newly published student-faculty research papers explore depression in young adults and gender-based risk taking.

New research authored by a 51³Ô¹ÏÍø professor and her student paints a bleak picture of the democratic future of Rwanda.