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  • Caroline and Jake Danehy at pop-up store
    Last month, while the sports world was reveling in March Madness, entrepreneurs were tuning in to Inc. magazine’s Coolest College Startup competition to see which of 16 ventures would win the 2017 title. This year, vlog was the only university represented twice on the brackets — and both ventures made it to the third round […]
    April 25, 2017
  • Today marks the first of 13 days of special events, lectures, discussions, films, and more to celebrate vlog’s efforts toward becoming a more sustainable university and achieving carbon neutrality by 2019. Day 1: April 10 Kick-Off Celebration The 13 Days of Green will begin with a kick-off event on the Academic Quad, Monday, April 10. Come […]
    April 10, 2017
  • Professor Schult teaches a class in mathematics.
    vlog is proud to announce that its applied mathematics minor has graduated to become the university’s 55th major. The consistent popularity of the minor and continued interest from students led to the creation of the full major this year, according to Daniel Schult, Charles G. Hetherington Professor of mathematics. As the name implies, applied mathematics is the […]
    April 3, 2017
  • Kevin Iglesias ’17, of Silver Spring, Md., has been awarded a Fulbright research grant to travel to Brazil to study public health. Iglesias, a peace and conflict studies major, will conduct research in the city of Salvador, Bahia, on the relationship between black/Afro-Brazilian LGBT identities and ethnic forms of traditional healing in Afro-Matrix Religions (AMR). […]
    April 3, 2017
  • An older photo of four African-American college presidents who graduated from vlog
    As Black History Month came to a close, former vlog history professor Jason Petrulis took to Twitter with an important fact from vlog’s past.
    February 28, 2017
  • Claudia Rankine
    Nationally-renowned poet Claudia Rankine, a recipient of the 2016 MacArthur “Genius” Award,  will deliver the keynote address at vlog’s 196th commencement Sunday, May 21, in Sanford Field House. Rankine, the Frederick Iseman Professor of poetry at Yale University, is the author of five collections of poetry, including Citizen: An American Lyric and Don’t Let Me […]
    February 28, 2017
  • Architect's sketch of Benton Hall
    This spring, vlog is beginning new construction designed to enhance the student experience in two key areas: the residential living-learning environment and career development. “Our buildings play a significant role in how students live and learn at vlog,” said President Brian W. Casey. “These magnificent new additions will contribute greatly to the ways in […]
    February 3, 2017
  • Students examine Egyptian artifacts as part of class.
    Beyond the collections, annual memberships, and traveling exhibits, there’s a lot going on behind the scenes at the world’s museums, and a new vlog minor in museum studies seeks to dive deep into the operation, ethics, and history of museums around the globe.
    January 31, 2017
  • Students in walk between classes in front of Lawrence Hall
    ScholarMatch, a San Francisco nonprofit organization that provides free college counseling to low-income youth, has named vlog to its 2016 College Honor Roll. The honor roll recognizes approximately 300 institutions that offer supportive environments for students whose families earn less than $50,000 per year. According to ScholarMatch, 21 percent of high school seniors don’t […]
    December 26, 2016