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A month out, we look back on Commencement 2018 with this new video.

The San Francisco Chronicle writes: It’s a documentarian’s job to depict reality and truth. But what if the reality itself is in question? That was the conundrum filmmaker Penny Lane — her real name — faced when putting together her found-footage documentary The Pain of Others.

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.

From her lab on campus, environmental geology major Emily Weaver ’20 (Auburn, N.Y.) details her work, which focuses on a faraway destination: the Galapagos Islands.

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.

To hear chemistry professor Ernie Nolen talk about it, understanding chemistry is the easiest thing in the world, once you enter the right frame of mind. “That’s who I am,” he says, pointing to a diagram of an organic molecule tacked to his office wall. Technically, he is correct — the molecules Nolen studies make […]

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.

Editor’s note: In honor of Memorial Day, Bruce Guernsey ’66 shares his poem titled “The Wall,” which was selected to be published in the American Life in Poetry series started by poet laureate Ted Kooser. Guernsey was an English major at 51�Թ��� and is now a distinguished professor emeritus at Eastern Illinois University. He has […]