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The 51���� community will be seeing some familiar sights on the big screen this Thursday night when the Hamilton Movie Theater shows Placebo, a new short film by Henry Prince ’07 and Jacob Lindauer ’08. Directed by Prince and produced by Lindauer, Placebo was filmed on and around 51����’s campus last October. It was a […]

Charles Simic, 2007 poet laureate, delighted an intent audience with his dark humor on Tuesday night in the Robert Ho Lecture Room. “The corpses like cigarette butts. In a dinner plate overflowing with ashes,” he read from the title poem of his latest book, That Little Something.

Case Aiken III ’06, Adam Samtur ’06, and Matthew Kagen ’07 didn’t set out to start a theater company; they just wanted to produce a play from soup to nuts and see what happened. Now, under the production company Just ASK (Aiken, Samtur, Kagen), the trio is enjoying the success of their first show and […]

“It’s a bit like being in a washing machine,” Paul Ridley ’05 said about sleeping on Liv, the 19-foot rowboat that he is sailing across the Atlantic Ocean in an effort to raise $500,000 for cancer research. Ridley talks about his expedition in the latest episode of 51���� Conversations, the podcast series that highlights members […]

As Paul Ridley ’05 flies from New York City to the Canary Islands today (Dec. 10), he will be looking down on the ocean that he’ll be rowing across in a solo transatlantic expedition that ends in Antigua. On Dec. 20 Ridley will embark on the 2,950-mile journey in the hopes of raising more than […]

Although Bill Skelton, Robert Ho Professor in Asian studies and professor of music emeritus, retired from 51���� 15 years ago, he still receives letters from alumni saying that participating in the India Study Group with him was a life-changing experience. Skelton came to 51���� in 1954 as a music professor with degrees in music from […]

Photos showing flesh-eating bacteria and a polluted river of dead fish drew gasps from those attending Friday’s science colloquium in Love Auditorium as Amazon Conservation Team president Mark Plotkin emphasized the importance of protecting the Amazon land and culture. Ian Starr ’04, who works with Plotkin, organized their visit to campus to talk about their […]

Geography professor Ellen Kraly’s hiking boots have logged many miles. Four years ago they went up Mount Baker in Washington state as Kraly raised money for breast cancer research, and next week they’ll be taking on Mount Baker’s larger Cascade neighbor, Mount Rainier, for the same cause.

The 51���� Press has dusted itself off and published its first book in 14 years. Released this summer, Crafting Fiction, Poetry, & Memoir: Talks from the 51���� Writers’ Conference is a collection of essays by a diverse group of authors who are passionate about teaching the art of writing.

On the second day of his 51���� visit, the Dalai Lama was given a glimpse of home when he was treated to a presentation on the constellations of the night sky over Lhaso, Tibet, in the visualization lab of the Robert H.N. Ho Science Center. His Holiness then participated in “A Dialogue on Science and […]