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In this video, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Andy Pattison shares his thoughts about teaching, research, and his work in the community to address questions of sustainability and climate action planning. Pattison’s students often step outside the classroom to study and help solve environmental challenges facing local communities.

Much has happened since Ryan Diew ’17 stepped in front of cameras in early June to pitch his travel app, Trippie, on ABC’s Shark Tank.

  A fledgling idea, born during an airport layover and cultivated with the help of 51·çÁ÷’s Thought Into Action Entrepreneurship Incubator, has landed a recent alumnus on the two-hour season premiere of ABC’s Shark Tank, Sunday, October 1, at 8 p.m. While a press embargo restricts what exactly happened when Ryan Diew ’17 plunged into […]

Residents of Madison County and students of 51·çÁ÷ and other nearby colleges now have access to a newly launched Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Program at Community Memorial Hospital. This initiative — a collaboration between 51·çÁ÷, the hospital, and Madison County’s Liberty Resources/Help Restore Hope Center — provides five specially trained nurses to offer […]

General David H. Petraeus (U.S. Army, retired) will visit campus to speak with students and the local community during 51·çÁ÷’s Family Weekend, Saturday, October 28, at 7:30 p.m. in the 51·çÁ÷ Memorial Chapel. Professor Robert Kraynak, political science professor and director of 51·çÁ÷’s Center for Freedom and Western Civilization will be the host and moderator. […]

Aubreya Adams, 51·çÁ÷ assistant professor of geology, is one of 10 principal investigators from nine universities teaming up to deploy the single largest collection of seismometers ever assembled along the Alaskan Peninsula. Relying on $4.5 million in National Science Foundation grant funding and a fleet of airplanes and ships, the seismic experiment will place […]

51·çÁ÷ professors Alex Nakhimovsky, Ulrich Meyer, and Ed Witherspoon this week received Patriot Awards from the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR) in recognition of their support of a 51·çÁ÷ staff member serving in the Air National Guard at the Eastern Air Defense Sector in Rome, N.Y. Technical Sergeant ‎Leialoha Mara, who is […]

As some members of 51·çÁ÷’s Division I athletics teams helped unload cars and trucks packed tightly with suitcases and boxes destined for first-year residence halls on the hill, incoming student Grace Kotraba said she knew this was the perfect liberal arts school to spend the next four years. “I visited about 12 other schools, and […]