5/16/12 - Connecticut College to become 'All-Steinway School'
An $855,000 gift from alumna Nancy Marshall Athey and her husband Preston Athey, will elevate Connecticut College to distinction as an "All-Steinway School" by infusing the college's comprehensive music education program with these ...
5/16/12 - Connecticut College to celebrate 94th Commencement
Connecticut College will award diplomas to more than 430 new graduates at the College's 94th Commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 20.
5/11/12 - History students capture New London's 9/11 memories on film
When Associate Professor of History Jim Downs asked students in his new course, "Historicizing 9/11 Internationally and Locally," to interview local residents about their experiences and reactions to 9/11, they found New Londoners ...
5/9/12 - Four seniors selected to 'Teach for America'
Four graduating seniors have been asked to participate in Teach for America this year, placing the College among top Teach for America schools.
5/7/12 - Sophomore wins $10,000 Davis Projects for Peace grant to implement art mentorship program in Kenya
Gabby Arenge '14 has long had a passion for art therapy. Now, she has a chance to put her passion into practice -- 8,000 miles away.
5/3/12 - Class visits Cuba to explore 'first-world education in a third-world economy'
Education professor Michael James knows the best way to teach his students about the power of a transformative education is to transform them. And a two-week trip to Cuba does just the trick.
5/1/12 - Senior wins College's 'Student Minute' video contest
Senior Zurab Grdzelishvili wins the College's "Student Minute" contest, which challenged students to capture short video clips of their college experience, with his video of a student tango session.
4/30/12 - Art, music and 'Incidental Matters' at Connecticut College this May
May is the month for music, senior thesis presentations and Commencement at Connecticut College.
4/27/12 - Portrait of President Emeritus Norman Fainstein joins College's presidential gallery
Wearing long blue regalia and his signature white goatee, President Emeritus Norman Fainstein looks every bit the part in his official presidential portrait, which joined the College's presidential portrait gallery at an unveiling ...
4/27/12 - TEDxConnecticutCollege inspires students to 'rethink progress'
In a single afternoon, members of the Connecticut College community grappled with war and peace, a cure for cancer, stereotypes of women, the future of cities, sustainable communities and cult religions, all in the name of ...
4/25/12 - Class heads to Deep South to explore women's role in the Civil Rights Movement
For Marline Johnson '13, the American Civil Rights movement became personal when she was able to walk in the footsteps of Civil Rights pioneers and speculate about her own potential power as an activist.
4/23/12 - College community will gather to remember Professor Dirk Held
The Connecticut College community will gather at 4 p.m. on Friday, April 27, in Harkness Chapel to remember Dirk t. D. Held, the Elizabeth S. Kruidenier '48 Professor of Classics and longtime chair of the Department of Classics, who ...
4/19/12 - College awarded a record 9 Fulbrights
Six Connecticut College seniors and three recent alumni have been selected to receive U.S. Fulbright Student Program grants to live, conduct research and teach abroad for an academic year. The nine awards are a record for the ...
4/18/12 - Trip to India teaches Dan Wernick '12 lessons in diplomacy
Dan Wernick '12, president of Connecticut College's senior class, traveled with other American student leaders to India last month at the invitation of the Ministry of External Affairs' Public Diplomacy Division.
4/16/12 - Professor's unique ceramic installation acquired by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Its 1,000 porcelain pieces have traveled from Wisconsin to New Haven to Stockholm and back, but this spring Professor Denise Pelletier's site-specific ceramic installation, "Vapours," settles into its permanent home at the Museum of ...
4/13/12 - CPTV shines spotlight on 'one of the nation's most progressive dance departments'
With a holistic program that combines rigorous academics with highly artistic training, Connecticut College is preparing the next generation of dance storytellers, CPTV reporter Ed Wierzbicki reveals in a new "Spotlight on the Arts" ...
4/11/12 - College earns spot on President's Community Service Honor Roll
Connecticut College has earned a spot on the President's 2012 Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll in recognition of extraordinary volunteer efforts by the college and its students.
4/9/12 - Four professors honored with College's highest faculty awards
The honors include the inaugural presentation of the Helen Mulvey Faculty Award.
4/6/12 - Connecticut College celebrates 101st birthday
Connecticut College marked the 101st anniversary of its founding on April 5 with song, dance and - because no birthday party is complete without cake - delicious lemon, chocolate, red velvet and raspberry cupcakes.
4/3/12 - Dance, film, music, theater, science, humanities and more at Connecticut College this April
April is packed with events showcasing art, humanities and cutting-edge science at Connecticut College.
4/2/12 - US ambassador to the UK will be 2012 Commencement speaker
Louis B. Susman, the U.S. ambassador to the Court of St. James in London, will be the keynote speaker at Connecticut College's 94th Commencement on May 20, 2012.
3/30/12 - 57 student-athletes receive NESCAC All-Academic honors
The New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) has named 57 Connecticut College student-athletes to the 2011-2012 Winter All-Academic Team. To be honored, a student-athlete must have reached sophomore academic standing ...
3/29/12 - Botany professor makes big impact with microorganism research
Professor Peter Siver studies some of the world's smallest organisms, and his recent accomplishments are making a big impact in an important scientific field.
3/26/12 - Katie Mullaley '12 helps uncover missing pieces of Spain's history
Mullaley, a scholar in the College's Toor Cummings Center for International Studies and the Liberal Arts, completed an internship with the Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory, a Spanish organization dedicated to ...
3/20/12 - Senior Jonathan Markson realizes his full musical potential
Jonathan Markson '12 doesn't have much free time. As a music and technology major with a computer science minor, he has devoted his senior year - and nearly every free minute - to the creation of music through two major projects.
3/9/12 - From Olympic athletes to a best-selling author, Spring issue of CC: Magazine highlights impressive alumni
Priyanka Gupta '06, Larry Bazer '85, Sloane Crosley '00, and Amanda Clark '05 and Bob Willis '09 are just a few of the impressive alumni highlighted in the Spring 2012 issue of CC: Magazine, the College's popular alumni magazine.
3/9/12 - Pamela D. Zilly elected chair of Connecticut College Board of Trustees
Pamela D. Zilly, a 1975 Connecticut College graduate and a retired senior managing director at The Blackstone Group L.P., has been elected to serve as chair of the Connecticut College Board of Trustees for a three-year term beginning ...
3/9/12 - Sailing coach has been building winning teams for 20 years
Under the direction of head coach Jeff Bresnahan, the Connecticut College sailing program consistently produces all-Americans and Olympians. Over two decades, his women's and coed teams have ranked regularly in the top 20 in the ...
3/6/12 - Language students turn student center into hub of world culture for local fifth graders
Connecticut College's Crozier-Williams student center was a hub for world culture during the second annual International Children's Expo last week. More than 50 fifth graders from New London's Winthrop Magnet Elementary School ...
3/2/12 - Professor wins NSF grant to study ancient Arctic lakes and climate change
Peter Siver, the Charles and Sarah P. Becker '27 Professor of Botany and Director of the Program in Environmental Studies at Connecticut College, has been awarded $379,756 by the National Science Foundation for climate-change research.
2/29/12 - Musicals, monologues and more at Connecticut College this March
All events are open to the public and free unless otherwise noted.
2/27/12 - Senior Andrea Amulic tours Connecticut with winning poetry
Andrea Amulic '12 is one of five student poets selected to the Connecticut Poetry Circuit Tour, a prestigious annual contest that highlights the poetry of exceptional students from colleges across Connecticut.
2/23/12 - EMS club installs new defibrillator in student center
Connecticut College's Emergency Medical Services (EMS) club installed a new Automated External Defibrillator (AED) in the Crozier-Williams student center during a small dedication ceremony earlier this week.
2/20/12 - Classics professor: Speeches by ancient Rome's enemy leaders were actually written by historians
In his new book, "Valorizing the Barbarians: Enemy Speeches in Roman Historiography," classics professor Eric Adler , explores these fabricated orations and posits that their authors had a purpose beyond just filling in the blanks ...
2/17/12 - Robust East Asian Studies program helps feed growing interest in all things China
China's growing geopolitical importance underscores the importance of the study of East Asian languages and cultures, professor Yibing Huang says.
2/15/12 - Students get career advice from alumni at Merrill Lynch, Monster.com
At two recent network events, alumni told students: Know what people can find online about you; put yourself in the shoes of a job interviewer; don't be afraid to take risks; and build your resume with activities that show who you are.
2/13/12 - Swimming teams ride wave of momentum into NESCAC Championships
Connecticut College women's swimming and diving is ranked 19th in the country heading into the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) championship, while the men's team heads into the championship meet ranked 22nd.
2/8/12 - RecycleMania hits Connecticut College
For the seventh year in a row, Connecticut College is participating in RecycleMania, a recycling competition that promotes waste reduction at colleges and universities across the country.
2/6/12 - Men's hockey raises awareness for 'Green Dot' program
The Connecticut College men's ice hockey team dedicated the Saturday, Feb. 4, game vs. Tufts University to raising awareness about the "Green Dot" program, a campus initiative to prevent power-based personal violence through ...
2/6/12 - Admission dean shares advice for high school seniors on New York Times blog
In a New York Times blog post today, Martha C. Merrill '84, Connecticut College's dean of admission and financial aid, advises high school seniors to avoid the urge to slack off.
2/3/12 - February means Black History Month and so much more at Connecticut College
Celebrate Black History Month, move to the beat of the Alex Brown Jazz Quartet or experience the power of dance at Connecticut College this February.
1/30/12 - Three honored with 2012 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Service Awards
Connecticut College has honored three members of its community with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Service Awards, given each year to those who exemplify and uphold the legacy of Dr. King's work.
1/27/12 - College receives $1.6 million for Athletic Center improvements
Connecticut College has received $1.6 million in gifts to upgrade its locker room and training room facilities and add lights to its turf field.
1/24/12 - Professor's dance company enjoys NYC limelight
Professor David Dorfman, a 1981 graduate of Connecticut College and chair of the dance department, has long been an influential figure in modern dance. And this week, his company, David Dorfman Dance, is enjoying the bright lights of ...
1/20/12 - Alumni qualify for 2012 Olympic Games
Sailors Bob Willis '09 and Amanda Clark '05 have qualified for the 2012 Olympic Games.
1/17/12 - Biology professor wins grant to explore oil spill effects on Louisiana salt marshes
With a $202,902 grant from the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative, biology professor Anne Bernhard will work with a team of researchers to explore the effects of the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the salt marshes that ...
1/13/12 - CBS This Morning interviews professor Vyse about Friday the 13th
Psychology professor Stuart Vyse was interviewed about Friday the 13th and the superstitions related to it for a segment on today's episode of CBS This Morning.
1/9/12 - Women's basketball is off to best start in 20 years
The upstart Camels have raced out to a 10-2 record.
1/5/12 - WFSB highlights advocacy work by Janet Tso '12
Senior Janet Tso's work to raise awareness about human trafficking and sexual slavery was highlighted in a WFSB Eyewitness News segment that aired Dec. 27.
1/2/12 - Camel hockey player keeps the dream alive - in France
Brett Moore '10, a sociology major at Connecticut College, landed a full-time job after graduation, in commercial real estate. But he wasn't quite ready to put his dream of playing semi-professional hockey on ice.
|
