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Psychology professor Kevin Carlsmith has been awarded a one-year fellowship at the prestigious Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Carlsmith hopes the collaboration with other top scholars at the center will provide valuable insights into his research that focuses on attitudes about torture and aggressive interrogation techniques.

At age 102, Charles Strobel ’33 still keeps his unwavering enthusiasm for 51³Ô¹ÏÍø. When Raiders football played Furman this past weekend in Greenville, S.C., Strobel, one of 51³Ô¹ÏÍø’s oldest living alumni, was in the stands cheering on his alma mater.

The ALANA Cultural Center recently hosted its kick-off event for the semester, bringing music, food, and informational booths to the center for a fun afternoon. ALANApalooza helped first-year students discover all that the center offers, while allowing other students, faculty members, and staff members to reacquaint themselves with the programming and facilities available to everyone. […]

(Note: These are remarks by President Jeffrey Herbst to first-year students on Founder’s Day, Aug. 29, 2010) Thank you. For Provost Roelofs and on behalf of my colleagues I want to again greet the Class of 2014. By now you have been orientated and counseled, advised, admonished, and encouraged in dozens of different ways. As […]

First, last, and always, Julia Alvarez is a storyteller.

Ten writers, including a Nobel Prize winner and a Pulitzer Prize winner, will bring their unique worldviews to campus this fall as part of the Living Writers course. In addition to intimate classroom discussions with students, the authors will hold public readings that will be webcast live, providing alumni, parents, and others the opportunity to […]

As the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks approaches, 51³Ô¹ÏÍø professor Peter Balakian, a prize winning and internationally distinguished writer whose work has been translated into many languages, explores the aftermath of 9/11 in his new book of poems, Ziggurat (University of Chicago Press). Balakian will also appear on NPR’s Weekend Edition on Sept. […]

Yesterday, five years after Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc on the city of New Orleans, an exhibition opened in the Clifford Gallery that gives visitors the sense of living in the Crescent City following the devastation. Behind the Levees is a progression of Francis Cape’s art that began in November 2005, when the New York-based artist […]