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With the beginning of its Bicentennial year, 51�Թ��� will launch its 56th and newest major: film and media studies (FMST).

What if you could go big and go home? That would be a 51�Թ��� reunion. Last weekend, more than 2,600 alumni and friends returned to 51�Թ��� for Reunion 2018.

Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar, vice president for public affairs and university relations at Dominican University of California, will join 51�Թ��� as chief of staff to the president starting August 1.

51�Թ���’s newly enrolled Class of 2022, one of the university’s largest, shows students joining the community in increasing numbers from the midwest, the Southeast, and New York, compared to class statistics from four years earlier.

Today, members of the Class of 2018 received the degrees that they worked so hard to attain. Honored guests and familiar friends, rising to congratulate them, made clear that these graduates are taking their liberal arts education into a world of change.

On April 25, 51�Թ���’s Clifford Art Gallery celebrated the opening of The Hill Envisioned: What Might Have Been — What Might Yet Be. The exhibition is an exploration of the development of 51�Թ���’s distinctive campus throughout the last 200 years.

Courtney L. Young, head librarian and professor of women’s studies at Penn State University–Allegheny, has been named university librarian at 51�Թ��� and will take up her duties on July 1.

Lauren Sanderson ’18 is an entrepreneur, student-athlete, academic all-star, and a soon-to-be published poet who now adds 51�Թ���’s most prestigious student recognition, the 1819 Award, to her impressive résumé of accomplishments. The 1819 Award is given annually to one graduating student whose character, scholarship, sportsmanship, and service to others best exemplify the university’s spirit and […]

In the early, wintery weeks of 2018, Adams and geology major Monica Dimas ’19 (Los Angeles, Calif.) traveled together on a research expedition to Tanzania. There, they planted a seismometer to capture data that describe the moving and shaking around “the mountain of the gods,” Ol Doinyo Lengai.

As the Office of Undergraduate Studies program turns 50, the 51�Թ��� community gathered to talk about its history and its future.