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Kori Strother ’15, an Africana & Latin American studies major from Saint Louis, Mo., is the 2015 recipient of 51³Ô¹ÏÍø’s 1819 Award, the highest student honor granted by the university. The 1819 Award is given annually to one student representing character, sportsmanship, scholarship, and service above and beyond their peers. While this year’s winner represents […]

Douglas A. Hicks announced he will be concluding his term as 51³Ô¹ÏÍø’s provost and dean of the faculty at the end of this academic year.

If you’ve walked into James C. 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Hall on a Monday afternoon, you might have heard unfamiliar yet intriguing musical sounds flowing out of classroom 209. That’s 51³Ô¹ÏÍø’s brand-new Balinese Gamelan Ensemble rehearsing; their concert is tonight.

One of 51³Ô¹ÏÍø’s best-known professors will reach more than 3,000 people from more than 100 countries in the university’s first public, open, online course, Greeks at War: Homer at Troy, beginning Monday. Robert Garland, Roy D. and Margaret B. Wooster Professor of the classics will teach the university-quality course on the 51³Ô¹ÏÍøX platform.

As we head into the last week of classes and students prepare for finals, some of this week’s events can offer a little break.

As the world commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide today, 51³Ô¹ÏÍø professor Peter Balakian continues to press the U.S. government to join a growing number of nations and dignitaries, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and Pope Francis, to publicly denounce and formally brand the killings as genocide. Balakian, a descendant of survivors of […]

Sara Reese ’16, of Midlothian, Va., is one of just 50 students nationwide to be awarded a Udall Scholarship in 2015. The Udall Scholarship is awarded to college sophomores and juniors for leadership, public service, and commitment to issues related to the environment or to American Indian nations. The scholarship honors the legacies of Morris […]

As the semester winds down, plenty of activity still keeps campus buzzing. Here are the events you won’t want to miss this week On Tuesday from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., enjoy the juggling club’s Light ’em Up show with knives and torches on the Academic Quad. The Oak Awards (or Oakies) will be presented on Wednesday […]