01/6/2025 - December in Pictures
As the fall semester ends, Camels look to the new year.
01/3/2025 - Men’s Soccer coaches named National Coaching Staff of the Year
After leading the Menās Soccer team to its first NESCAC Championship and then on an unforgettable NCAA run that saw Camels in their second championship final in three years, the ĢĒŠÄTV Menās oSccer coaching staff has been named the 2024 Division III National Coaching Staff of the Year by the United Soccer Coaches.
12/11/2024 - 112 named to NESCAC Fall All-Academic Team
The New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) has named 112 ĢĒŠÄTV student athletes, including 28 membersā90% of the eligible rosterāof the NESCAC Champion and NCAA runner-up Menās Soccer team, to the 2024 Fall All-Academic Team.
12/6/2024 - Faculty panel discusses gender-based violence in reaction to 2009 film ‘Polytechnique’
Four professors across different departments hosted a screening of the movie āPolytechniqueā Nov. 21 in the Chu Room at Shain Library, followed by a panel discussion that touched on gun control, gender violence and mental health.
12/6/2024 - Semifinal victory sends Men’s Soccer back to NCAA DIII Championship game
ĢĒŠÄTV defender Alessandro Hovarth Diano ā25 sent a bending free kick past No. 21 Washington and Leeās goalie and into the top left corner of the net in the 60th minute of the NCAA Division III semifinal game to propel the Camels past the Generals 1-0 and into the National Championship game for the second time in three years.
12/4/2024 - Maxim Langstaff ’81 to give keynote address at Commencement
Maxim Langstaff ā81, a Grammy- and Emmy-nominated multimedia writer and producer, will deliver the keynote address at ĢĒŠÄTVās 107th Commencement on Sunday, May 18.
12/2/2024 - November in Pictures
There is always plenty to be thankful for at ĢĒŠÄTV.
11/26/2024 - Musician provides Classics students with a fresh take on Homer’s ‘Iliad’
Assistant Professor of Classics Brett Evans brought Chicago-based musician Joe Goodkin to campus in association with the new Classics course, āTales of Troy.ā
11/25/2024 - Ticket punched! Men’s Soccer heads to NCAA Final Four
Forward Elliot Spatz ā26 scored twice in the span of six minutes to lead the ĢĒŠÄTV Menās Soccer team past No. 10 Denison 2-1 in the Elite Eight round of the NCAA DIII Championshipāand on to the Final Four for the second time in program history.
11/21/2024 - Behind the Curtain: Student-curated exhibition reveals the art of the photo booth
This fall, students taking āPerspectives on Photographyā with Lucy C. McDannel ā22 Professor of Art History and Anthropology Christopher Steiner and Associate Professor of Art History Karen Gonzalez Rice worked for over a month with 2024 Krane Art History Guest Residents Brian Wallis and NƤkki Goranin to interpret and curate an exhibit at the College titled Behind the Curtain.
11/18/2024 - Men’s Soccer heads to Sweet 16
The ĢĒŠÄTV Menās Soccer team scored twice in the first half and added a goal in the second to propel the Camels past No. 19 Franklin and Marshall 3-0 in NCAA Tournament second-round action on ĢĒŠÄTVās Freeman Field Sunday afternoon. With the win, ĢĒŠÄTV (12-2-6) now heads to the Sweet 16 round for the fourth time in five seasons.
11/13/2024 - Men’s Soccer wins NESCAC Championship
Sixth-seeded ĢĒŠÄTV claimed its first-ever conference title on Sunday afternoon, knocking off second-seeded Middlebury College by a 3-1 final in the championship match of the 2024 NESCAC Men's Soccer Championship at South Street Field.
11/12/2024 - October in Pictures
Autumnal glory of color and activity on campus.
11/8/2024 - Brilliance and creativity on display at the sixth annual All-College Symposium
More than 200 seniors presented the results of their transformative academic experiences during the daylong event
11/7/2024 - ĢĒŠÄTV gifted $100,000 for new telescope and observatory upgrades
An anonymous ĢĒŠÄTV alum has donated $100,000 to the Department of Physics, Astronomy and Geophysics for the purchase of a new telescope and upgrades to the observatory atop the F.W. Olin Science Center.
11/4/2024 - A Very ĢĒŠÄTV Christmas
Hallmarkās āTrivia at St. Nickās,ā filmed at ĢĒŠÄTV, to air Nov. 8
10/31/2024 - Computer science students present research at conference in Malaysia
Brooke Brandenburger ā26, Manan Isak ā24 and Russell Kosovsky ā25 recently traveled to Malaysia to present their research at the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics.
10/21/2024 - Jordan Morgan ’26 named a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Scholar
Jordan Morgan ā26, a computer science and quantitative economics major from Alpharetta, Georgia, was recently named a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Scholar.
10/18/2024 - Former President Claire Gaudiani ’66 dies at 79
Claire L. Gaudiani ā66, who served as ĢĒŠÄTVās eighth president from 1988 to 2001, died Oct. 16 surrounded by her family. She was 79.
10/10/2024 - September in Pictures
As the daylight wanes, life on campus waxes.
10/3/2024 - ĢĒŠÄTV to host Congressional debate on Oct. 10
ĢĒŠÄTV will host a U.S. House of Representatives 2nd Congressional District debate featuring Democratic incumbent Joe Courtney and Republican candidate Mike France on Thursday, Oct. 10, at 7 p.m. in Evans Hall, Cummings Arts Center.
09/26/2024 - ĢĒŠÄTV joins ĢĒŠÄTVecticut Space Grant Consortium
ĢĒŠÄTV is now part of the ĢĒŠÄTVecticut Space Grant Consortium, a NASA-funded program administered at the state level that sponsors faculty and student research and student internships across the U.S.
09/12/2024 - Professor Shou Ping Liu has the ĢĒŠÄTV Orchestra going places
Assistant Professor of Music Shou Ping Liu arrived at ĢĒŠÄTV a little over a year ago, bringing a wealth of experience as a performer, conductor and teacher of music.
09/5/2024 - August in Pictures
A new academic year begins.
09/4/2024 - Tribal remains discovered on ĢĒŠÄTV grounds repatriated after four decades
The remains of an Indigenous North American individual unearthed on the ĢĒŠÄTV campus in 1981 and recently found at the University of Rhode Island have been repatriated to tribal custody and returned to rest.
09/3/2024 - ĢĒŠÄTV awarded $251K NSF grant for a new scanning electron microscope
The College has won a grant to purchase a scanning electron microscope (SEM) with energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) capabilities.
08/27/2024 - ‘Courage to care:’ Academic year begins with 110th Convocation
In her keynote address at ĢĒŠÄTVās 110th Convocation on Aug. 26, Associate Professor of Economics MĆ³nika LĆ³pez-Anuarbe encouraged the Collegeās newest students and returning sophomores, juniors and seniors to build their communities and impact the world around them with āthe courage to care.ā
08/22/2024 - ĢĒŠÄTV welcomes Class of 2028
As they arrived on the sunny morning of Aug. 21, ĢĒŠÄTVās 471 new studentsāincluding 458 first-years, 12 transfers and one RTC studentāwere greeted by cheering student leaders, colorful signs and a campus community eager to welcome the newest herd of Camels in ĢĒŠÄTVās 113-year history.
08/21/2024 - Five join ĢĒŠÄTV’s Board of Trustees; Seth Alvord ’93 elected chair
Five new trustees have joined ĢĒŠÄTVās Board of Trustees, while Seth Alvord ā93 was elected chair. Peter Skaperdas Pā17 and Dwayne Stallings ā99 will serve as vice chairs along with Maria Wyckoff Boyce ā85, who will continue her service.
08/19/2024 - July in Pictures
ĢĒŠÄTV basks in the summer sun.
07/30/2024 - Student Civic Leaders address national issues on a local level
Seventeen ĢĒŠÄTV students, the largest cohort so far, remained on campus after the end of the spring semester to participate in the annual summer Civic Leaders program at ĢĒŠÄTV College from May 17 to June 28.
07/25/2024 - Taylor Austin ’24 meets Sigourney Weaver, donates art to College
Last October, film studies grad Taylor Austin ā24, of Milford, New Hampshire, attended Out of the Mist, a fundraiser for the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund. She bid on and won a large display of wall baskets woven by a group of female Rwandan artisans, which she decided to donate to ĢĒŠÄTV College.
07/23/2024 - She’s Here!
President Chapdelaine Arrives on Campus
07/15/2024 - ĢĒŠÄTV receives STARS Gold rating for sustainability
ĢĒŠÄTV has received its second consecutive Sustainability Tracking Assessment & Rating System (STARS) Gold rating from the Association for the Advancement for Sustainability in Higher Education.
07/11/2024 - 143 named to NESCAC Spring All-Academic Team
Two NESCAC Champion track runners, two Winthrop Scholars and 21 members of the Womenās Rowing team are among the 143 ĢĒŠÄTV student-athletes named to the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) 2024 Spring All-Academic Team.
07/8/2024 - June in Pictures
Summer life overlooking the Sound.
06/26/2024 - A Year of Transformation and Accomplishment
As summer begins, we share some of the defining moments of the past academic year that highlight how ĢĒŠÄTV achieved distinction in the classroom, on the playing field and in the wider world.
06/26/2024 - Transforming the heart of campus
Construction is underway for three capital projects that will enhance student spaces and create an even more beautiful campus
06/25/2024 - Four honored with ĢĒŠÄTV’s highest faculty awards
Four ĢĒŠÄTV professors have been honored with 2024 Faculty Awards for excellence in research, teaching and leadership.
06/18/2024 - Miranda Van Mooy ’24 is ALL IN on improving the state of U.S. democracy
The ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge honored Miranda Van Mooy ā24 with a spot in their Honor Roll, a collection of 137 students across the United States who went above and beyond in their ācommitment to nonpartisan democratic engagement and their contributions to their local communities.ā
06/11/2024 - May in Pictures
Camels mark May with celebrations from beginning to end
06/6/2024 - Staff honored with Presidential Recognition Awards
Six ĢĒŠÄTV staff members were recognized for their valuable contributions to the College at the 11th annual Presidential Staff Recognition Breakfast and Awards Ceremony on May 10.
05/30/2024 - Diamoni Davis ’27 named Newman Civic Fellow
Diamoni Davis ā27 has been named a 2024-2025 Newman Civic Fellow by Campus Compact, a Boston-based coalition of colleges and universities forming the largest and oldest association dedicated to higher education civic and community engagement.
05/19/2024 - Class of 2024 encouraged to ‘reinvent the world’
CNN Chief Legal Analyst Laura Coates told the 381 members of ĢĒŠÄTVās Class of 2024 to treat the world like āa blank slate.ā
05/19/2024 - Jasity Mena ’24 wins the 2024 Anna Lord Strauss Medal
The 2024 Anna Lord Strauss Medal was awarded to scholar-activist Jasity Mena ā24, an educational studies and sociology double major, human development minor and scholar in the Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy from New York, New York.
05/19/2024 - Sarah Hall ’24 wins the 2024 Claire Gaudiani ’66 Prize
Sarah Hall ā24, an environmental science major, geoscience minor and scholar in the Goodwin-Niering Center for the Environment from Tualatin, Oregon, was awarded the Claire Gaudiani ā66 Prize for her senior integrative project, āGIS-based Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis for Marine Energy Site Selection: A Case Study Comparison between Puerto Rico and Hawaii.ā
05/19/2024 - Ciara McNamara ’24 wins the 2024 Oakes and Louise Ames Prize
Ciara McNamara ā24, a studio art and psychology double major and English minor from Brooklyn, New York, was awarded the Oakes and Louise Ames Prize for her honors thesis, āThe Spectacle of Consumption: Iām Lovinā It.ā
05/14/2024 - April in Pictures
The campus was a hive of activity this month
05/7/2024 - Professor Mara Suttmann-Lea awarded $200,000 Carnegie Fellowship for elections research
Assistant Professor of Government Mara Suttmann-Lea is one of 28 distinguished scholars out of a record high 360 nominees awarded the highly prestigious $200,000 Carnegie Fellowship in 2024.
05/7/2024 - Serena Prince ’24 awarded Coro Fellowship in Public Affairs
Serena Prince ā24, a government and Africana Studies double major from New York City, New York, has been awarded a Coro Fellowship in Public Affairs.
05/2/2024 - NESCAC Champs
Runners Alexa Estes ā26 and Grace McDonough ā26 set records with race wins
04/26/2024 - ĢĒŠÄTV welcomes President-elect Andrea Chapdelaine for first campus visit
President-elect Andrea E. Chapdelaine, who last month was unanimously appointed to serve as ĢĒŠÄTVās 12th president by the Board of Trustees, made her first official visit to campus Wednesday, April 24.
04/25/2024 - Klagsbrun Symposium features Edwidge Danticat
When Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence Kate Rushin asked award-winning Haitian American author Edwidge Danticat why she writes, Danticat replied, āIt never felt like I had a choice.ā
04/23/2024 - Cecily Hetzel ’24 awarded Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant
Cecily Hetzel ā24 is headed to the Canary Islands after being awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) for the 2024-25 academic year. She will teach English to children on one of the eight Spanish islands off the coast of Morocco.
04/17/2024 - Sailor Maggie Shea ’11 will return to the Olympic Games
Maggie Shea ā11, who finished 11th in the Womenās Skiff ā 49erFX at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, will represent the United States once again at the 2024 Games in Paris this summer.
04/17/2024 - Giana De La Cruz ’24 named 2024 student Commencement speaker
Giana De La Cruz ā24 has been selected as the student speaker for ĢĒŠÄTVās 106th Commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 19.
04/12/2024 - ĢĒŠÄTV honors 13 new Winthrop Scholars
Alongside friends, family and members of ĢĒŠÄTVās academic community, 13 seniors gathered in Blaustein Humanities Center April 9 to join an esteemed group of Camelsāthe Winthrop Scholarsāin a tradition that dates back nearly a century to 1928.
04/12/2024 - Professor Kris Klein Hernández wins $50,000 Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
Assistant Professor of History Kris Klein HernĆ”ndez, who joined the ĢĒŠÄTV faculty in 2022, has won a prestigious 2024 Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship administered by the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine.
04/4/2024 - BOT Chair Debo P. Adegbile ’91 wins Legal Aid DC’s Servant of Justice Award
Debo P. Adegbile ā91, chair of ĢĒŠÄTVās Board of Trustees and a partner at the international law firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, will be honored with Legal Aid DCās 2024 Servant of Justice Award at the 34th Annual Servant of Justice Awards Dinner in Washington, D.C., on April 9.
04/4/2024 - March in Pictures
ĢĒŠÄTV sails into spring
04/3/2024 - Two awarded prestigious Watson Fellowships
Sophie Demaisy ā24 and Leslie Villegas ā24 have been awarded prestigious Thomas J. Watson Fellowships to embark on a year of international exploration and discovery.
03/28/2024 - ĢĒŠÄTV announces 12th president
Andrea E. Chapdelaine, a visionary leader and champion of the liberal arts, named ĢĒŠÄTV president-elect
03/21/2024 - National Champion x2
Justin Finkel ā25 wins two events at NCAA DIII Menās Swimming and Diving Championships
03/20/2024 - The Road to Urinetown
The Making of a Musical
03/19/2024 - National Champion
Justin Finkel ā25 wins the 500 freestyle at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships
03/18/2024 - 120 named to NESCAC Winter All-Academic Team
The 2024 NESCAC Menās Swimmer of the Year, a Beinecke Scholarship winner and 28 members of the Womenās Indoor Track and Field team are among the 120 ĢĒŠÄTV scholar-athletes named to the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) 2024 Winter All-Academic Team.
03/14/2024 - David Murray ’24 named All-American
Menās Basketball standout David Murray ā24 has been named to the 2023-24 National Association of Basketball Coaches All-America First Team.
03/13/2024 - Effigy: Students’ documentary short brings a New London tradition to Rome
When Benedict Arnold defected to the British during the American Revolution, he likely didnāt imagine a crowd would burn him in effigy some 240 years later as part of an annual event in the very city he sought to reduce to ash.
03/12/2024 - WCNI inducted into New England Music Hall of Fame
WCNI, ĢĒŠÄTVās free form radio station, is among the 2024 inductees to the New England Music Hall of Fame.
03/7/2024 - February in Pictures
Despite being the shortest month, February is full of action at ĢĒŠÄTV
03/6/2024 - Reimagined Women’s Center opens as the Feminist Resource, Education & Empowerment (F.R.E.E) Center
There was a celebratory feel at the official Feminist Resource, Education & Empowerment (F.R.E.E) Center opening ceremonies on Friday, March 1, a daylong event that included a ribbon cutting, a panel discussion and a game night and represented the culmination of three years of work to reimagine ĢĒŠÄTVās former Womenās Center.
03/4/2024 - Men’s Basketball’s David Murray ’24 named NESCAC Player of the Year
David Murray ā24 is closing out his collegiate basketball career on a high note: Heās the first Camel to be named New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Player of the Year.
03/4/2024 - Award-winning Moroccan American author Laila Lalami discusses fiction, citizenship and migration
Moroccan American multigenre author Laila Lalami discussed these topics and more with English Professors Marie Ostby and Jeff Strabone in an engaging conversation on fiction, citizenship and migration on Feb. 26.
02/28/2024 - Welcome to Urinetown!
Director Tess Cruz ā16 isnāt sorry about bringing the darkly hilarious musical to the Athey Center at Palmer Auditorium
02/27/2024 - Justin Finkel ’25 named NESCAC Swimmer of the Year for second consecutive year
After winning three events at the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Menās Swimming & Diving Championships this past weekend, Justin Finkel ā25 was named NESCAC Swimmer of the Year for the second year in a row.
02/26/2024 - ‘Grief Is For People’: Author Sloane Crosley ’00 tells the story of how she endured a particularly harrowing year
In her new book, Grief Is For People, Crosley explores the kinds of blows the Greatest City in the Worldāand life itselfācan deal you. In a painful pileup, she lost a close friend, the book publicist Russell Perreault, to suicide and had her apartment burgled. Then, she had to watch as the world just outside her window sunk into a pandemic.
02/21/2024 - Camels lead the nation with 26 NFHCA National Academic Squad honorees
Twenty-six ĢĒŠÄTV scholar-athletes have been named to the 2023 National Field Hockey Coaches Association Division III National Academic Squad, the highest number of honorees from any institution in the country.
02/21/2024 - ĢĒŠÄTV participates in Douglass Day Transcribe-a-thon
The ĢĒŠÄTV community joined a nationwide crowdsourcing effort to transcribe letters written to and by Frederick Douglass, a Black activist who was born into slavery in Maryland in 1818, escaped to New York City at age 20, and went on to become an internationally renowned antislavery lecturer and writer.
02/18/2024 - Chess Champs: ĢĒŠÄTV takes first place in the small college category at Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship
The ĢĒŠÄTV Chess Team did it again at the Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship, taking home first place in the Top Four-Year Small College category, which includes schools with fewer than 5,000 students, for the second year in a row.
02/15/2024 - Exploring dance’s African roots
āIgniting Emancipatory Possibilities through African Diaspora Danceā summit brings experts and new perspective to campus.
02/15/2024 - Men’s Basketball to host NESCAC Championship quarterfinal game
The No. 3-seeded ĢĒŠÄTV Menās Basketball team will host a NESCAC Championship tournament quarterfinal matchup against No. 6-seeded Amherst College on Saturday, Feb. 17, at 1 p.m. in Luce Field House.
02/13/2024 - ĢĒŠÄTV named a top producer of Fulbrights
ĢĒŠÄTV has been named a top producer of Fulbright students for 2023-2024, according to the U.S. Department of Stateās Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
02/9/2024 - January in Pictures
Dancing into a new year and a new semester
02/7/2024 - ĢĒŠÄTV Notice of Data Security Incident
ĢĒŠÄTV is undertaking a thorough forensic investigation that includes leading cybersecurity experts to address a data security incident in which an unauthorized party accessed and/or acquired certain files maintained on the Collegeās computer systems.
02/6/2024 - Men’s Basketball on five-game win streak
The ĢĒŠÄTV Menās Basketball team extended its winning streak to five games with a 94-77 victory over Hamilton College on Sunday afternoon in a NESCAC match-up at Luce Field House.
01/29/2024 - Interim President Wong pens chapter for new book on Chinese American leaders in higher education
Interim President Leslie E. Wong has contributed a chapter to a new book, The Rise of Chinese American Leaders in U.S. Higher Education: Stories and Roadmaps.
01/18/2024 - ‘Founders Day,’ a satirical political slasher by filmmaker Carson Bloomquist ’18, hits theaters everywhere
In the film, a small town finds its already contentious mayoral election turned up to 11 when a teenager is murdered. Soon, a figure in a black judgeās robe wearing a two-faced blood-red mask stalks the town. Wielding a gavel with a knife hidden in its hilt, the killer starts taking down targets on both sides of the political divide.
01/11/2024 - Olympian Anita DeFrantz ’74 wins 2024 NCAA President’s Gerald R. Ford Award
ĢĒŠÄTVās most honored athlete adds one of the NCAAās top honors to her collection.