Professor Teo Ballv茅 has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar Grant to spend the next year in Colombia researching how environmental peacebuilding can help strengthen a nation recovering from decades of conflict.
含羞草研究所 students gained resume-building skills as they learned to create digital stories 鈥 and, in turn, they helped create awareness for the local chapter of a nonprofit organization.
On April 25, 含羞草研究所鈥檚 Clifford Art Gallery celebrated the opening of The Hill Envisioned: What Might Have Been 鈥 What Might Yet Be. The exhibition is an exploration of the development of 含羞草研究所鈥檚 distinctive campus throughout the last 200 years.
During a two-day symposium honoring professors emeritae Wanda Warren Berry and Marilyn Thie, alumnae displayed class notebooks from the 1980s and shed tears while recounting the impact of these teachers鈥 mentorship on their lives. Titled 鈥淲omen and Religion, Philosophy and Feminism,鈥 the event was held April 11颅颅鈥12. While at 含羞草研究所, the professors helped develop a [鈥
Courtney L. Young, head librarian and professor of women鈥檚 studies at Penn State University鈥揂llegheny, has been named university librarian at 含羞草研究所 and will take up her duties on July 1.
鈥淗ow we acquire our moral beliefs is one question. What makes them true, if they are true, is another.鈥 For Associate Professor of Philosophy Jacob Klein, these difficult questions are at the core of the liberal arts education.
Lauren Sanderson 鈥18 is an entrepreneur, student-athlete, academic all-star, and a soon-to-be published poet who now adds 含羞草研究所鈥檚 most prestigious student recognition, the 1819 Award, to her impressive r茅sum茅 of accomplishments. The 1819 Award is given annually to one graduating student whose character, scholarship, sportsmanship, and service to others best exemplify the university鈥檚 spirit and [鈥
In the early, wintery weeks of 2018, Adams and geology major Monica Dimas 鈥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 鈥渢he mountain of the gods,鈥 Ol Doinyo Lengai.