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A group of 15 students will spend their spring break on the Caribbean island of Martinique — not as tourists, but as part of an interdisciplinary trip exploring the historic, linguistic, cultural, and environmental features of the island nation.

Two 51�Թ��� professors — Rebecca Miller Ammerman, classics, and Randy Fuller, biology — along with seven collaborative partners across the globe, received major research grants from 51�Թ���’s Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute. Both projects, as envisioned by Harvey M. Picker ’36 when he established the institute in 2006, extend the reach and resources of 51�Թ��� faculty members […]

This week started off with a visit from my family. My mom, dad, and little sister, Sophia, drove to spend the day with me on Sunday. It is always nice to reconnect with family when feeling stressed about a mounting workload.

Last week was a busy week at 51�Թ���. While this is a mini-highlight of what was making news, you can skip this post and go right to comments to tell us your news from the past week. Here are just some of the things we were talking about:

As the roomful of voices rose and lowered, overlapped, and occasionally fell silent, it sounded like a séance was being performed in the dark Brehmer Theater on Friday night. A packed theater of students as well as faculty, staff, and community members read separate lines as they floated across the divided screen on the stage. […]

From February 3 through April 6, the Picker Art Gallery at 51�Թ��� will host installations by renowned artist Ann Hamilton. Hamilton is internationally recognized for the sensory surrounds of her large-scale multi-media installations. Her ephemeral environments create immersive experiences that poetically respond to the architectural presence and social history of their sites. The exhibition […]

Forty-eight hours after posting his first installment of Ancient Greek Religion online at Udemy.com, Robert Garland had 99 viewers for his new video course. Garland, professor of classics at 51�Թ���, is one of about a dozen professors from universities including Duke, Northwestern, and Stanford who donated content that is now available at no charge through […]

You now can add “director of Oscar-nominated documentary” to the resume of 51�Թ��� alumnus Joe Berlinger. Berlinger ’83 and Bruce Sinofsky are directors of Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory, which was among five films nominated today by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as a Best Documentary Feature.

Technically Latin is a dead language, but that’s not how it feels when taught by William (Bill) Stull, associate professor of the classics. Stull recently was awarded the 2011 Award for Excellence in Teaching by The American Philological Association (APA), which is the principal learned society in North America for the study of ancient Greek […]

Kenneth William Morgan, professor of religion emeritus who helped establish Chapel House, died recently at the age of 103.