On the second floor of Johnson Memorial Building, there is a place for memories, art and imagination. Just after the entrance, one can appreciate a first glance of a new exhibition named “Living Portraits,” in which a group of students present a significant person using oil painting and ceramic ...
A breeze blows over Otter Creek, sweeping an earthy scent up from the riverbanks to the patio of Old Stone Mill. The M Gallery shines like a beacon from the first floor of the old building, and the sounds of conversation filter through the windows. Inside, visitors find ropes of flowers draped over ...
The 23rd annual Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium, which took place this past weekend was a pivotal moment for the astronomical sciences community at the College. It signaled another fruitful year amongst Keck Consortium colleges for summer astronomy research, as well as the last year at the College ...
As the McCullough Social Space filled during the 15 minutes before the show, excitement ignited the room and well-known pop tracks played in the background. Everyone had gathered for the return of Otter Nonsense, one of the most popular improv comedy groups on campus. When the lights dimmed, the Otters ...
The laboratory of Burr Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Chair of the Chemistry Department Rick Bunt is a small, unobtrusive room tucked about halfway down the north hall of the fifth floor in McCardell Bicentennial Hall. Pinned to a board outside the door are various published papers with ...
Borderlands 2 was a tough sell for me. The first game, Borderlands, was great in its own right: it was a four-player cooperative shooter that had you and any buddies you may have online join up and shoot some aliens while on the hunt for loot and ultimately, the vault, a legendary place said to be filled ...
Jonathan Franzen’s new collection, Farther Away, gathers together 21 highly readable essays, originally published between 1998 and 2011. The essays cover a wide variety of topics — ranging from birds and the environment, technology and the death of Franzen’s friend, the writer David Foster Wallace ...
This year, Heinz-Given Professor of Biology & Pre-Medical Science and Chair of the Biology Department Grace Spatafora found herself with a rather large lab. Along with a dedicated team of students, some of which worked in Spatafora's lab over this past summer, Spatafora is working toward the lab's ...
During this past summer's Master of Fine Arts Playwrights' Workshop at the Kennedy Center, Daniel Sauermilch '13 graced the Washington, D.C. stage with a reading of his original play, The Igloo Settlement. Put on by the National New Play Network, the MFA Playwrights' Workshop has been featuring ...
This fall, the James I. and Carol Aymar Armstrong Science Library has a friendly new face working behind the circulation desk. Wendy Shook, the library's new science data librarian, replaced the former librarian, Carrie Macfarlane, in early August this year. Macfarlane is now the Head of Research and ...
A new exhibit this year at the Kevin P. Mahaney '84 Center for the Arts, titled "Camera Work: Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand and Company," is now on display. It is inspired by Charles A. Dana Professor of History of Art & Architecture Kirsten Hoving's course, "Alfred Stieglitz and Camera Work" ...
During the previous generation of consoles, there were two games in the True Crime series. Essentially, these games were Grand Theft Auto clones that actually had somewhat decent gameplay. Even the second game allowed one to take up the mantle of Snoop Dogg himself, and everyone's had that fantasy at ...
The Queen of Versailles In light of the recent Republican and Democratic National Conventions in which the American economy was especially emphasized by both presidential candidates, and several years into the recovery from the worst economic troubles the United States have encountered since the Great ...
At 1:31 a.m. on Aug. 5, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Mars Curiosity rover successfully landed on the surface of Mars after an eight-and-a-half month journey. Later that same day, the College released a statement in the weekly news hub, MiddPoints, announcing that Gamaliel ...
This summer, the 20-year-old Kevin P. Mahaney '84 Center for the Arts (CFA) found itself rejuvanated and reborn. Throughout June, July and August, crews toiled day after day on the project, gouging the earth in the front lawn, revealing the building's copper veins. Despite this lengthy proces, the ...
When Stephen Greenblatt was an undergrad at Yale University, he stopped by the local Co-op and, browsing through some unwanted and cheap books, he discovered a prose translation of Lucretius's two thousand year old poem, "On the Nature of Things." He purchased it for ten cents. Greenblatt begins ...
While some students spent their summers hitting the sandy beaches on America's coasts, over 100 students at the College hit Battell Beach in their hours off from scientific research with professors. These students took advantage of one of the greatest benefits to studying at a small, liberal arts college ...
The Potomac Theater Project (also known as PTP/NYC) successfully concluded its 2012 summer season with its well-received productions of Caryl Churchill's Serious Money and Jim Petosa's Monster, which were both performed at Atlantic Stage 2 in Manhattan. PTP/NYC is a professional theater company that ...
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Seventeen students. Twelve weeks. One 17th-century French comedy. L’Avare, a five-act satire by French playwright Molière, ran in the Chateau Theatre on April 29 and April 30. Translated as The Miser, the play was performed (entirely in French!) by the students of the French 306 course, “Study ...