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��ҹ���� football players hope their strength and endurance pay off for charities that help fight rare diseases. At the “Lift for Life” fundraiser Friday, about 35 players will compete against each other in lifting and skills competitions.

Sports Illustrated senior writer Austin Murphy ’83 covered the National Football League for six years and is in his 15th year of covering college football. In the most recent episode of ��ҹ���� Conversations, the podcast series highlighting members of the campus community, Murphy had this to say: — The NFL is run by pinched, unsmiling […]

Participants in a Greek Life Summit met on campus last weekend to discuss the past, evaluate the present, and envision the future for ��ҹ���� chapters. Five representatives from each of the 10 fraternities and sororities on campus collaborated with staff members, local advisers, and alumni representatives. In all, more than 70 people contributed to the dialogue that was […]

(Editor’s Note: Adriana was one of 12 students who traveled to Uganda this summer as part of a ��ҹ���� extended study course.) As I reflect on my experiences of the past few weeks, I find hard to believe that I actually lived in the middle of a Ugandan village for almost an entire month. Upon first […]

Spend three weeks in Japan as part of a ��ҹ���� extended study course that provides you with access and interactions that no tourist could begin to imagine. Check. Fly home to Utah, spend one jet-lagged day asleep, and then drive to ��ҹ����, passing through the flooded cities of Iowa on the way. Check.

Not too many people need to know how to say ‘pole vault’ in German. But Alisandra Denton ’10, a molecular biology major and pole-vaulter, might find the word Stabhochsprung useful this summer as she pursues a unique internship. In the city of Mainz, Germany, Denton is gaining research experience as well as strengthening her language […]

��ҹ���� President Rebecca Chopp and Dean of the Faculty Lyle Roelofs have announced the appointment of Dr. Keenan Grenell as the university’s Vice President and Dean of Diversity. The following is drawn from the message shared with the ��ҹ���� community. Grenell comes to ��ҹ���� from Marquette University, where he served as Associate Provost for Diversity […]

If ever there were a poster child for upstate New York, Kevin McAvey ’05 would be it. Like so many of his ��ҹ���� friends, McAvey left the area after graduation, but, he says, his “heart stayed in the upstate New York region.” “There’s still not a day I don’t cross that border into upstate that […]

A ��ҹ���� alumnus received a Tony Award for a unique three-level stage set he designed for the hugely successful play, August: Osage County. Todd A. Rosenthal ’89 won for best set design, one of several awards the play earned during Sunday night’s awards show. Rosenthal earned a degree from Yale School of Drama in New […]

Alumna Chi Chi Obichere-Roxo’s interest in international development – sparked by a ��ҹ���� extended study course and a Watson fellowship – can be seen through her work involving refugees in Kenya, religious leaders in Nigeria, and a host of others around the world. Obichere-Roxo ’00 is a program officer with Management Sciences for Health, a […]