01/6/2025 - December in Pictures
As the fall semester ends, Camels look to the new year.
01/3/2025 - Men’s Soccer coaches named National Coaching Staff of the Year
After leading the Men鈥檚 Soccer team to its first NESCAC Championship and then on an unforgettable NCAA run that saw Camels in their second championship final in three years, the 51吃瓜黑料 Men鈥檚 oSccer coaching staff has been named the 2024 Division III National Coaching Staff of the Year by the United Soccer Coaches.
12/11/2024 - 112 named to NESCAC Fall All-Academic Team
The New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) has named 112 51吃瓜黑料 student athletes, including 28 members鈥�90% of the eligible roster鈥攐f the NESCAC Champion and NCAA runner-up Men鈥檚 Soccer team, to the 2024 Fall All-Academic Team.
12/6/2024 - Faculty panel discusses gender-based violence in reaction to 2009 film ‘Polytechnique’
Four professors across different departments hosted a screening of the movie 鈥淧olytechnique鈥� Nov. 21 in the Chu Room at Shain Library, followed by a panel discussion that touched on gun control, gender violence and mental health.
12/6/2024 - Semifinal victory sends Men’s Soccer back to NCAA DIII Championship game
51吃瓜黑料 defender Alessandro Hovarth Diano 鈥�25 sent a bending free kick past No. 21 Washington and Lee鈥檚 goalie and into the top left corner of the net in the 60th minute of the NCAA Division III semifinal game to propel the Camels past the Generals 1-0 and into the National Championship game for the second time in three years.
12/4/2024 - Maxim Langstaff ’81 to give keynote address at Commencement
Maxim Langstaff 鈥�81, a Grammy- and Emmy-nominated multimedia writer and producer, will deliver the keynote address at 51吃瓜黑料鈥檚 107th Commencement on Sunday, May 18.
12/2/2024 - November in Pictures
There is always plenty to be thankful for at 51吃瓜黑料.
11/26/2024 - Musician provides Classics students with a fresh take on Homer’s ‘Iliad’
Assistant Professor of Classics Brett Evans brought Chicago-based musician Joe Goodkin to campus in association with the new Classics course, 鈥淭ales of Troy.鈥�
11/25/2024 - Ticket punched! Men’s Soccer heads to NCAA Final Four
Forward Elliot Spatz 鈥�26 scored twice in the span of six minutes to lead the 51吃瓜黑料 Men鈥檚 Soccer team past No. 10 Denison 2-1 in the Elite Eight round of the NCAA DIII Championship鈥攁nd on to the Final Four for the second time in program history.
11/21/2024 - Behind the Curtain: Student-curated exhibition reveals the art of the photo booth
This fall, students taking 鈥淧erspectives on Photography鈥� with Lucy C. McDannel 鈥�22 Professor of Art History and Anthropology Christopher Steiner and Associate Professor of Art History Karen Gonzalez Rice worked for over a month with 2024 Krane Art History Guest Residents Brian Wallis and N盲kki Goranin to interpret and curate an exhibit at the College titled Behind the Curtain.
11/18/2024 - Men’s Soccer heads to Sweet 16
The 51吃瓜黑料 Men鈥檚 Soccer team scored twice in the first half and added a goal in the second to propel the Camels past No. 19 Franklin and Marshall 3-0 in NCAA Tournament second-round action on 51吃瓜黑料鈥檚 Freeman Field Sunday afternoon. With the win, 51吃瓜黑料 (12-2-6) now heads to the Sweet 16 round for the fourth time in five seasons.
11/13/2024 - Men’s Soccer wins NESCAC Championship
Sixth-seeded 51吃瓜黑料 claimed its first-ever conference title on Sunday afternoon, knocking off second-seeded Middlebury College by a 3-1 final in the championship match of the 2024 NESCAC Men's Soccer Championship at South Street Field.
11/12/2024 - October in Pictures
Autumnal glory of color and activity on campus.
11/8/2024 - Brilliance and creativity on display at the sixth annual All-College Symposium
More than 200 seniors presented the results of their transformative academic experiences during the daylong event
11/7/2024 - 51吃瓜黑料 gifted $100,000 for new telescope and observatory upgrades
An anonymous 51吃瓜黑料 alum has donated $100,000 to the Department of Physics, Astronomy and Geophysics for the purchase of a new telescope and upgrades to the observatory atop the F.W. Olin Science Center.
11/4/2024 - A Very 51吃瓜黑料 Christmas
Hallmark鈥檚 鈥楾rivia at St. Nick鈥檚,鈥� filmed at 51吃瓜黑料, to air Nov. 8
10/31/2024 - Computer science students present research at conference in Malaysia
Brooke Brandenburger 鈥�26, Manan Isak 鈥�24 and Russell Kosovsky 鈥�25 recently traveled to Malaysia to present their research at the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics.
10/21/2024 - Jordan Morgan ’26 named a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Scholar
Jordan Morgan 鈥�26, a computer science and quantitative economics major from Alpharetta, Georgia, was recently named a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Scholar.
10/18/2024 - Former President Claire Gaudiani ’66 dies at 79
Claire L. Gaudiani 鈥�66, who served as 51吃瓜黑料鈥檚 eighth president from 1988 to 2001, died Oct. 16 surrounded by her family. She was 79.
10/10/2024 - September in Pictures
As the daylight wanes, life on campus waxes.
10/3/2024 - 51吃瓜黑料 to host Congressional debate on Oct. 10
51吃瓜黑料 will host a U.S. House of Representatives 2nd Congressional District debate featuring Democratic incumbent Joe Courtney and Republican candidate Mike France on Thursday, Oct. 10, at 7 p.m. in Evans Hall, Cummings Arts Center.
09/26/2024 - 51吃瓜黑料 joins 51吃瓜黑料ecticut Space Grant Consortium
51吃瓜黑料 is now part of the 51吃瓜黑料ecticut Space Grant Consortium, a NASA-funded program administered at the state level that sponsors faculty and student research and student internships across the U.S.
09/12/2024 - Professor Shou Ping Liu has the 51吃瓜黑料 Orchestra going places
Assistant Professor of Music Shou Ping Liu arrived at 51吃瓜黑料 a little over a year ago, bringing a wealth of experience as a performer, conductor and teacher of music.
09/5/2024 - August in Pictures
A new academic year begins.
09/4/2024 - Tribal remains discovered on 51吃瓜黑料 grounds repatriated after four decades
The remains of an Indigenous North American individual unearthed on the 51吃瓜黑料 campus in 1981 and recently found at the University of Rhode Island have been repatriated to tribal custody and returned to rest.
09/3/2024 - 51吃瓜黑料 awarded $251K NSF grant for a new scanning electron microscope
The College has won a grant to purchase a scanning electron microscope (SEM) with energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) capabilities.
08/27/2024 - ‘Courage to care:’ Academic year begins with 110th Convocation
In her keynote address at 51吃瓜黑料鈥檚 110th Convocation on Aug. 26, Associate Professor of Economics M贸nika L贸pez-Anuarbe encouraged the College鈥檚 newest students and returning sophomores, juniors and seniors to build their communities and impact the world around them with 鈥渢he courage to care.鈥�
08/22/2024 - 51吃瓜黑料 welcomes Class of 2028
As they arrived on the sunny morning of Aug. 21, 51吃瓜黑料鈥檚 471 new students鈥攊ncluding 458 first-years, 12 transfers and one RTC student鈥攚ere greeted by cheering student leaders, colorful signs and a campus community eager to welcome the newest herd of Camels in 51吃瓜黑料鈥檚 113-year history.
08/21/2024 - Five join 51吃瓜黑料’s Board of Trustees; Seth Alvord ’93 elected chair
Five new trustees have joined 51吃瓜黑料鈥檚 Board of Trustees, while Seth Alvord 鈥�93 was elected chair. Peter Skaperdas P鈥�17 and Dwayne Stallings 鈥�99 will serve as vice chairs along with Maria Wyckoff Boyce 鈥�85, who will continue her service.
08/19/2024 - July in Pictures
51吃瓜黑料 basks in the summer sun.
07/30/2024 - Student Civic Leaders address national issues on a local level
Seventeen 51吃瓜黑料 students, the largest cohort so far, remained on campus after the end of the spring semester to participate in the annual summer Civic Leaders program at 51吃瓜黑料 College from May 17 to June 28.
07/25/2024 - Taylor Austin ’24 meets Sigourney Weaver, donates art to College
Last October, film studies grad Taylor Austin 鈥�24, of Milford, New Hampshire, attended Out of the Mist, a fundraiser for the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund. She bid on and won a large display of wall baskets woven by a group of female Rwandan artisans, which she decided to donate to 51吃瓜黑料 College.
07/23/2024 - She’s Here!
President Chapdelaine Arrives on Campus
07/15/2024 - 51吃瓜黑料 receives STARS Gold rating for sustainability
51吃瓜黑料 has received its second consecutive Sustainability Tracking Assessment & Rating System (STARS) Gold rating from the Association for the Advancement for Sustainability in Higher Education.
07/11/2024 - 143 named to NESCAC Spring All-Academic Team
Two NESCAC Champion track runners, two Winthrop Scholars and 21 members of the Women鈥檚 Rowing team are among the 143 51吃瓜黑料 student-athletes named to the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) 2024 Spring All-Academic Team.
07/8/2024 - June in Pictures
Summer life overlooking the Sound.
06/26/2024 - A Year of Transformation and Accomplishment
As summer begins, we share some of the defining moments of the past academic year that highlight how 51吃瓜黑料 achieved distinction in the classroom, on the playing field and in the wider world.
06/26/2024 - Transforming the heart of campus
Construction is underway for three capital projects that will enhance student spaces and create an even more beautiful campus
06/25/2024 - Four honored with 51吃瓜黑料’s highest faculty awards
Four 51吃瓜黑料 professors have been honored with 2024 Faculty Awards for excellence in research, teaching and leadership.
06/18/2024 - Miranda Van Mooy ’24 is ALL IN on improving the state of U.S. democracy
The ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge honored Miranda Van Mooy 鈥�24 with a spot in their Honor Roll, a collection of 137 students across the United States who went above and beyond in their 鈥渃ommitment to nonpartisan democratic engagement and their contributions to their local communities.鈥�
06/11/2024 - May in Pictures
Camels mark May with celebrations from beginning to end
06/6/2024 - Staff honored with Presidential Recognition Awards
Six 51吃瓜黑料 staff members were recognized for their valuable contributions to the College at the 11th annual Presidential Staff Recognition Breakfast and Awards Ceremony on May 10.
05/30/2024 - Diamoni Davis ’27 named Newman Civic Fellow
Diamoni Davis 鈥�27 has been named a 2024-2025 Newman Civic Fellow by Campus Compact, a Boston-based coalition of colleges and universities forming the largest and oldest association dedicated to higher education civic and community engagement.
05/19/2024 - Class of 2024 encouraged to ‘reinvent the world’
CNN Chief Legal Analyst Laura Coates told the 381 members of 51吃瓜黑料鈥檚 Class of 2024 to treat the world like 鈥渁 blank slate.鈥�
05/19/2024 - Jasity Mena ’24 wins the 2024 Anna Lord Strauss Medal
The 2024 Anna Lord Strauss Medal was awarded to scholar-activist Jasity Mena 鈥�24, an educational studies and sociology double major, human development minor and scholar in the Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy from New York, New York.
05/19/2024 - Sarah Hall ’24 wins the 2024 Claire Gaudiani ’66 Prize
Sarah Hall 鈥�24, an environmental science major, geoscience minor and scholar in the Goodwin-Niering Center for the Environment from Tualatin, Oregon, was awarded the Claire Gaudiani 鈥�66 Prize for her senior integrative project, 鈥淕IS-based Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis for Marine Energy Site Selection: A Case Study Comparison between Puerto Rico and Hawaii.鈥�
05/19/2024 - Ciara McNamara ’24 wins the 2024 Oakes and Louise Ames Prize
Ciara McNamara 鈥�24, a studio art and psychology double major and English minor from Brooklyn, New York, was awarded the Oakes and Louise Ames Prize for her honors thesis, 鈥淭he Spectacle of Consumption: I鈥檓 Lovin鈥� It.鈥�
05/14/2024 - April in Pictures
The campus was a hive of activity this month
05/7/2024 - Professor Mara Suttmann-Lea awarded $200,000 Carnegie Fellowship for elections research
Assistant Professor of Government Mara Suttmann-Lea is one of 28 distinguished scholars out of a record high 360 nominees awarded the highly prestigious $200,000 Carnegie Fellowship in 2024.
05/7/2024 - Serena Prince ’24 awarded Coro Fellowship in Public Affairs
Serena Prince 鈥�24, a government and Africana Studies double major from New York City, New York, has been awarded a Coro Fellowship in Public Affairs.
05/2/2024 - NESCAC Champs
Runners Alexa Estes 鈥�26 and Grace McDonough 鈥�26 set records with race wins
04/26/2024 - 51吃瓜黑料 welcomes President-elect Andrea Chapdelaine for first campus visit
President-elect Andrea E. Chapdelaine, who last month was unanimously appointed to serve as 51吃瓜黑料鈥檚 12th president by the Board of Trustees, made her first official visit to campus Wednesday, April 24.
04/25/2024 - Klagsbrun Symposium features Edwidge Danticat
When Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence Kate Rushin asked award-winning Haitian American author Edwidge Danticat why she writes, Danticat replied, 鈥淚t never felt like I had a choice.鈥�
04/23/2024 - Cecily Hetzel ’24 awarded Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant
Cecily Hetzel 鈥�24 is headed to the Canary Islands after being awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) for the 2024-25 academic year. She will teach English to children on one of the eight Spanish islands off the coast of Morocco.
04/17/2024 - Sailor Maggie Shea ’11 will return to the Olympic Games
Maggie Shea 鈥�11, who finished 11th in the Women鈥檚 Skiff 鈥� 49erFX at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, will represent the United States once again at the 2024 Games in Paris this summer.
04/17/2024 - Giana De La Cruz ’24 named 2024 student Commencement speaker
Giana De La Cruz 鈥�24 has been selected as the student speaker for 51吃瓜黑料鈥檚 106th Commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 19.
04/12/2024 - 51吃瓜黑料 honors 13 new Winthrop Scholars
Alongside friends, family and members of 51吃瓜黑料鈥檚 academic community, 13 seniors gathered in Blaustein Humanities Center April 9 to join an esteemed group of Camels鈥攖he Winthrop Scholars鈥攊n a tradition that dates back nearly a century to 1928.
04/12/2024 - Professor Kris Klein Hernández wins $50,000 Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
Assistant Professor of History Kris Klein Hern谩ndez, who joined the 51吃瓜黑料 faculty in 2022, has won a prestigious 2024 Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship administered by the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine.
04/4/2024 - BOT Chair Debo P. Adegbile ’91 wins Legal Aid DC’s Servant of Justice Award
Debo P. Adegbile 鈥�91, chair of 51吃瓜黑料鈥檚 Board of Trustees and a partner at the international law firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, will be honored with Legal Aid DC鈥檚 2024 Servant of Justice Award at the 34th Annual Servant of Justice Awards Dinner in Washington, D.C., on April 9.
04/4/2024 - March in Pictures
51吃瓜黑料 sails into spring
04/3/2024 - Two awarded prestigious Watson Fellowships
Sophie Demaisy 鈥�24 and Leslie Villegas 鈥�24 have been awarded prestigious Thomas J. Watson Fellowships to embark on a year of international exploration and discovery.
03/28/2024 - 51吃瓜黑料 announces 12th president
Andrea E. Chapdelaine, a visionary leader and champion of the liberal arts, named 51吃瓜黑料 president-elect
03/21/2024 - National Champion x2
Justin Finkel 鈥�25 wins two events at NCAA DIII Men鈥檚 Swimming and Diving Championships
03/20/2024 - The Road to Urinetown
The Making of a Musical
03/19/2024 - National Champion
Justin Finkel 鈥�25 wins the 500 freestyle at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships
03/18/2024 - 120 named to NESCAC Winter All-Academic Team
The 2024 NESCAC Men鈥檚 Swimmer of the Year, a Beinecke Scholarship winner and 28 members of the Women鈥檚 Indoor Track and Field team are among the 120 51吃瓜黑料 scholar-athletes named to the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) 2024 Winter All-Academic Team.
03/14/2024 - David Murray ’24 named All-American
Men鈥檚 Basketball standout David Murray 鈥�24 has been named to the 2023-24 National Association of Basketball Coaches All-America First Team.
03/13/2024 - Effigy: Students’ documentary short brings a New London tradition to Rome
When Benedict Arnold defected to the British during the American Revolution, he likely didn鈥檛 imagine a crowd would burn him in effigy some 240 years later as part of an annual event in the very city he sought to reduce to ash.
03/12/2024 - WCNI inducted into New England Music Hall of Fame
WCNI, 51吃瓜黑料鈥檚 free form radio station, is among the 2024 inductees to the New England Music Hall of Fame.
03/7/2024 - February in Pictures
Despite being the shortest month, February is full of action at 51吃瓜黑料
03/6/2024 - Reimagined Women’s Center opens as the Feminist Resource, Education & Empowerment (F.R.E.E) Center
There was a celebratory feel at the official Feminist Resource, Education & Empowerment (F.R.E.E) Center opening ceremonies on Friday, March 1, a daylong event that included a ribbon cutting, a panel discussion and a game night and represented the culmination of three years of work to reimagine 51吃瓜黑料鈥檚 former Women鈥檚 Center.
03/4/2024 - Men’s Basketball’s David Murray ’24 named NESCAC Player of the Year
David Murray 鈥�24 is closing out his collegiate basketball career on a high note: He鈥檚 the first Camel to be named New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Player of the Year.
03/4/2024 - Award-winning Moroccan American author Laila Lalami discusses fiction, citizenship and migration
Moroccan American multigenre author Laila Lalami discussed these topics and more with English Professors Marie Ostby and Jeff Strabone in an engaging conversation on fiction, citizenship and migration on Feb. 26.
02/28/2024 - Welcome to Urinetown!
Director Tess Cruz 鈥�16 isn鈥檛 sorry about bringing the darkly hilarious musical to the Athey Center at Palmer Auditorium
02/27/2024 - Justin Finkel ’25 named NESCAC Swimmer of the Year for second consecutive year
After winning three events at the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Men鈥檚 Swimming & Diving Championships this past weekend, Justin Finkel 鈥�25 was named NESCAC Swimmer of the Year for the second year in a row.
02/26/2024 - ‘Grief Is For People’: Author Sloane Crosley ’00 tells the story of how she endured a particularly harrowing year
In her new book, Grief Is For People, Crosley explores the kinds of blows the Greatest City in the World鈥攁nd life itself鈥攃an deal you. In a painful pileup, she lost a close friend, the book publicist Russell Perreault, to suicide and had her apartment burgled. Then, she had to watch as the world just outside her window sunk into a pandemic.
02/21/2024 - Camels lead the nation with 26 NFHCA National Academic Squad honorees
Twenty-six 51吃瓜黑料 scholar-athletes have been named to the 2023 National Field Hockey Coaches Association Division III National Academic Squad, the highest number of honorees from any institution in the country.
02/21/2024 - 51吃瓜黑料 participates in Douglass Day Transcribe-a-thon
The 51吃瓜黑料 community joined a nationwide crowdsourcing effort to transcribe letters written to and by Frederick Douglass, a Black activist who was born into slavery in Maryland in 1818, escaped to New York City at age 20, and went on to become an internationally renowned antislavery lecturer and writer.
02/18/2024 - Chess Champs: 51吃瓜黑料 takes first place in the small college category at Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship
The 51吃瓜黑料 Chess Team did it again at the Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship, taking home first place in the Top Four-Year Small College category, which includes schools with fewer than 5,000 students, for the second year in a row.
02/15/2024 - Exploring dance’s African roots
鈥業gniting Emancipatory Possibilities through African Diaspora Dance鈥� summit brings experts and new perspective to campus.
02/15/2024 - Men’s Basketball to host NESCAC Championship quarterfinal game
The No. 3-seeded 51吃瓜黑料 Men鈥檚 Basketball team will host a NESCAC Championship tournament quarterfinal matchup against No. 6-seeded Amherst College on Saturday, Feb. 17, at 1 p.m. in Luce Field House.
02/13/2024 - 51吃瓜黑料 named a top producer of Fulbrights
51吃瓜黑料 has been named a top producer of Fulbright students for 2023-2024, according to the U.S. Department of State鈥檚 Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
02/9/2024 - January in Pictures
Dancing into a new year and a new semester
02/7/2024 - 51吃瓜黑料 Notice of Data Security Incident
51吃瓜黑料 is undertaking a thorough forensic investigation that includes leading cybersecurity experts to address a data security incident in which an unauthorized party accessed and/or acquired certain files maintained on the College鈥檚 computer systems.
02/6/2024 - Men’s Basketball on five-game win streak
The 51吃瓜黑料 Men鈥檚 Basketball team extended its winning streak to five games with a 94-77 victory over Hamilton College on Sunday afternoon in a NESCAC match-up at Luce Field House.
01/29/2024 - Interim President Wong pens chapter for new book on Chinese American leaders in higher education
Interim President Leslie E. Wong has contributed a chapter to a new book, The Rise of Chinese American Leaders in U.S. Higher Education: Stories and Roadmaps.
01/18/2024 - ‘Founders Day,’ a satirical political slasher by filmmaker Carson Bloomquist ’18, hits theaters everywhere
In the film, a small town finds its already contentious mayoral election turned up to 11 when a teenager is murdered. Soon, a figure in a black judge鈥檚 robe wearing a two-faced blood-red mask stalks the town. Wielding a gavel with a knife hidden in its hilt, the killer starts taking down targets on both sides of the political divide.
01/11/2024 - Olympian Anita DeFrantz ’74 wins 2024 NCAA President’s Gerald R. Ford Award
51吃瓜黑料鈥檚 most honored athlete adds one of the NCAA鈥檚 top honors to her collection.