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provide timely information on emerging ideas and trends, ground-breaking research, and important events as they occur at many of America's leading liberal arts colleges. Whether you are a journalist, student or prospective student, parent or advisor, researcher or other interested party, these top news stories reveal both the depth and range of educational disciplines and extracurricular activities at America's best residential liberal arts colleges. They also highlight contributions made by faculty members, within their academic and scientific disciplines, in the larger communities, and on the national stage.

Science in the Painted Hills

A Biologist Looks at Intelligent Design

Students Find Classical Studies Illuminating

Howard Dean and Karl Rove to Debate Issues at DePauw's Ubben Lecture

The President's Forum at Goucher College Presents Karl Rove

European Tour Examines Role of International Law

Furman Univesity Ranks First Among South Carolina Colleges in State University.com Evaluation

Southwestern University student makes a major musical discovery

National Technology Initiative Serving Liberal Arts Colleges Moves to Southwestern University

"Wingspan" of Social Networking Connects Ladan Nekoomaram '09 to Relatives in Iran

Trinity Students Receive Grant to Provide Health Education in Zambia

Alma College President Saundra Tracy Announces Retirement Plans

Saint Benedict's/Saint John's theology professor nominated to be U.S. ambassador to the Holy See

Illinois Wesleyan Students Join Global Medical Brigade to Honduras

Robert Koopmann named president of Saint John’s University, Minn.

Furman University President David Shi Announces Retirement

Ohio Wesleyan Breaks Ground on New Aquatics Recreation Center

CNN's Christiane Amanpour to Give Dickinson College Commencement Address

DePauw Students Take First Runner-Up Prize at Microsoft's Imagine Cup Finals

Swarthmore College Microbiologist Discusses Keys to Swine Flu Response

President Joan Develin Coley announces 2010 retirement

Bowdoin College Alum Christopher Hill '74 Confirmed as U.S. Ambassador to Iraq

St. Olaf alumnus, author David Oppegaard talks about first novel, 'Suicide Collectors'

Bowdoin College's Polar Explorer Robert Peary, Stuffed and on a Pole

Furman University Offers Tuition-Free Benefits to Eligible Post-9/11 Veterans

Mike Segawa Assumes Presidency of National Higher Education Association

Lori Bettison-Varga Elected Scripps College President

U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald to deliver Knox College Commencement address

Hamilton College Geoscientist and Student Leave on NSF-funded Antarctic Expedition

'Global Nomads' Find a Home at Lewis & Clark

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. brings activist spirit to Willamette University

In Bates College talk, former Maine governor to address role of leadership in environmental protection

Mount Holyoke's Demas Pens One-Woman Play

April 17 Celebration Will Mark 100th Anniversary of SPJ's Founding at DePauw

Mount Holyoke's Joanne Creighton to Step Down

Davidson Men's Basketball Event Collects More Than 10,000 Pairs of Shoes for Children in Nigeria

Flight 1549 in the Hudson

DePauw Media Ethicist Weighs in on 'Chimpgate'

Swarthmore College Names New President

Washington College Announces $50,000 George Washington Book Prize Finalists

New Generation Encounters Vietnam Through Lewis & Clark Program

Lewis & Clark poet earns national acclaim

Furman University Receives $60,000 Grant for Undergraduate Research in Sciences

Grant Will Improve Diversity Initiatives on Five Campuses

Washington & Jefferson College Named to Presidential Honor Roll For Community Service

Ohio Wesleyan University Named to Presidential Honor Roll

Gettysburg College Trustees Unanimously Name Alumna 14th President

'Bailout not adequate,' says Nobel Prize Winner at Willamette

Grinnell College Awarded Mellon Grant to Encourage Academic Careers Among Diverse Students

Bowdoin College Alum Sen. George Mitchell '54 Named Middle East Envoy

Knights Give $5 Million to Willamette University College of Law

Three Furman University Seniors Receive Rotary Scholarships to Study Abroad

Indianapolis Star: 'DePauw Students on Hand for Hudson River Rescue'

Lewis & Clark's Anne Bentley Rising Star in World of 'Nano'

King to Obama and Beyond: Bowdoin's Legacy of Inclusion

Scripps College Looks at the Mystery of Sleep

Four Golden Globes for Bowdoin Alum Kary Antholis '84 Project

Furman University Ranked Among 2009 Best Values by Two Publications

Author, Presidential Expert to Speak at Ohio Wesleyan University

McDaniel College to offer new Master's of Science degree in Gerontology

Foreign Policy Expert to Discuss U.S. Relations with China

ARCHIVE OF TOP NEWS STORIES

Archive of Top News Stories

This archive of Top News Stories from America's leading liberal arts colleges is organized by year and month from 2002 to the present.