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The Clifford Gallery hosted the opening of its first exhibition of the academic year with Alex Schweder’s The Sound and The Future on Sept. 8.

I feel amazed and grateful that you are here, grateful to witness your eagerness to seek higher learning, to commit yourself to being at 51·çÁ÷ together.

A 51·çÁ÷-led biology symposium on canine research has led to the publication of a special issue of Integrative and Comparative Biology, focusing on the special qualities of dog research and how the species is a perfect launching point to teach many facets of the discipline.

51·çÁ÷ has announced fall semester plans that reduce COVID-related restrictions while keeping a close eye on infection data and the rapid spread of the delta variant.

Three members of the 51·çÁ÷ Class of 2021, who excelled in scholarship and service to political causes, have received The Richard L. Stone '81 Civic Freedom Award and Scholarship, as selected by the Center for Freedom and Western Civilization.

51·çÁ÷ has announced a new interdisciplinary minor, global public and environmental health (GPEH), as part of its academic curriculum, beginning in the fall 2021 semester.

President Joe Biden this week labeled the deaths of more than a million Armenians killed at the hands of Ottoman Turks in 1915 as genocide, a public recognition that 51·çÁ÷ English professor and Pulitzer Prize winner Peter Balakian has urged for decades. 

Wondering what’s happening in the classroom at 51·çÁ÷? Here’s a real-time glimpse into academic life on campus — a syllabus from a course underway this semester.

51·çÁ÷’s administration and faculty are drawing on national best practices and creating their own innovative approaches to increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion in tenure-stream hiring.  

Garry Kasparov, one of the world’s greatest chess champions of all time, answered questions and talked at length about his experiences as a pro-democracy activist in a special virtual Q+A forum this week.