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Veterans

Boot Camp Comes to the White House

Friday, July 11, 2014, By News Staff

There won’t be any drill sergeants, but 100 veterans have started a two-day boot camp at the White House. Boots to Business: Reboot is an expansion of the training program developed by the Institute for Veterans and Military Families at…

Campus & Community

Anchors A-Whey Study: Curious About Your Cardiovascular and Cognitive Health?

Tuesday, June 17, 2014, By News Staff

The Department of Exercise Science’s Human Performance Laboratory is continually recruiting for a research study examining the effect of whey protein (milk protein) supplementation on artery and brain health. You may be eligible if you are 60-85 years old, do…

Health & Society

World Cup Begins, But Will We Watch?

Friday, June 13, 2014, By Keith Kobland

One of the biggest spectacles in sports is underway in Brazil, as soccer teams representing 32 nations compete in the World Cup. But while the rest of the world watches, soccer fandom in the United States is still lukewarm at…

Arts & Culture

‘Inner Fish’ Author to Deliver Fall Milton Lecture

Monday, May 19, 2014, By Rob Enslin

Neil Shubin, a nationally renowned paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and science writer, will deliver this fall’s Milton First-Year Lecture in the College of Arts and Sciences. Shubin—author of the bestselling “Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5 Billion-Year History of…

Campus & Community

Hendricks Chapel Choir’s Spring Concert Is April 27

Tuesday, April 22, 2014, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

The Hendricks Chapel Choir, under the direction of Peppie Calvar, will present “Finzi, Friends and Fragments,” a concert of an all English-language choral repertoire on Sunday, April 27, at 2 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. The concert is the choir’s spring…

Arts & Culture

Ellen Bryant Voigt to Close Out Spring Carver Series

Monday, April 21, 2014, By Renée K. Gadoua

The poet Ellen Bryant Voigt will close out the spring 2014 Raymond Carver Reading Series at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 23, in Gifford Auditorium. A question-and-answer session will precede the reading from 3:45-4:30 p.m. The event is free and open…

Arts & Culture

A Catalyst for Change

Monday, April 21, 2014, By Rob Enslin

Leave it to Karin Ruhlandt, newly appointed interim dean-designate of The College of Arts and Sciences, to put a global spin on things. In 1999, when the Department of Chemistry was retooling its Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program, the…

iSchool, Marist, Linux Foundation, IBM Presenting MOOC Series on Enterprise Computing

Monday, April 14, 2014, By Diane Stirling

In a first-of-its-kind collaboration, two IT-savvy colleges, a nonprofit consortium and an IT industry leader are combining academic efforts to present a massive open online educational series whose curriculum is centered on mainframe-computing operations. The School of Information Studies (iSchool),…

Campus & Community

Participants needed for Exercise Science Study

Friday, April 11, 2014, By News Staff

We are conducting a research study through the Department of Exercise Science. The purpose of this study is to assess the effect of whey protein on artery and cognitive function. The study involves four visits (1-2 hours each) over 12…

Deep Findings

Wednesday, April 9, 2014, By Rob Enslin

When Cathryn Newton helped discover the USS Monitor in 1973, she was dealing with not just the most famous shipwreck of the Civil War (and of all U.S. naval history), but a paleontological and archaeological find of “epoch” proportions. “Shipwrecks…