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For 51���� student Maggie Dunne ’13, one good deed yields another — and another — and another. As winner of the 2012 grand prize in Glamour magazine’s Top 10 College Women Competition, she received $20,000 for the work she has accomplished through her nonprofit Lakota Pine Ridge Children’s Enrichment Project. At the ceremony, she announced […]

Energetic children dashed around Huntington Gymnasium, eager to explore an inflatable obstacle course, join potato-sack races, and play basketball last Friday afternoon during the annual Sidekicks carnival. The musical stylings of the Swinging ’Gates and Pep Band welcomed local children, 51���� students, and the public to the afternoon of fun.

A new year, and a new semester here at 51����! Students have arrived back on campus after several weeks of break, and everyone seems rested and ready to take on the new semester. Many can be seen rushing to find their new classes and trying out some new winter clothing now that Hamilton is beginning […]

51���� ranks No. 15 on the 2012 top Peace Corps volunteer-producing colleges and universities in the small category. There are currently 18 alumni serving overseas.

Last Saturday, a group of volunteers and I worked at a family’s home in Fleischmanns, N.Y., Hurricane Irene had caused massive damage to the houses and buildings in this town.

Course registration for next semester is now over! That very stressful experience has now come to pass and many students are excited to relax this weekend. My weekend, however, will be pretty busy.

Maggie Dunne’ 13 was featured in a recent web article about her unflagging commitment to assisting children at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

A group of 51���� volunteers collected items donated or left behind by students leaving campus for the summer in a “salvage” program that benefited 35 community organizations.

This year’s Oz Project production, Munchkin Madness, continues in last year’s tradition of teaching autistic and non-autistic students valuable social skills.

For almost a year, Griffin O’Shea ’13 has been planning an alternative spring break trip to Kenya. Sponsored through the Center for Outreach, Volunteerism, and Education, eight 51���� undergraduates will spend May 17-31 with orphans and vulnerable children at the Caroline Wambui Mungai Foundation school in Wangige, located northwest of Nairobi.