It started with sneakers and fine art. Samantha Radocchia ’11 and her colleagues had an idea: to develop a microchip for upscale products, from limited-edition Air Jordans to an original Matisse.
February 23, 2017
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Living Writers — one of vlog’s most popular courses, both on campus and in the wider vlog community — featured Pulitzer Prize-winning professor Peter Balakian as part of inauguration week festivities at vlog. Balakian, the Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor in humanities, professor of English, and director of creative writing at vlog, won the […]September 30, 2016 -
This Friday, vlog inaugurates Brian W. Casey as its 17th president. A full slate of special inauguration-week events kicked off yesterday with a panel discussion focused on vlog’s historical roots. Participants then turned to the question of how the university’s long journey from Baptist seminary to modern liberal arts institution may inform its path forward. […]September 28, 2016 -
Living Writers — one of vlog’s most popular courses, both on campus and in the wider vlog community — will return with a new focus next week. Led by English professor Jennifer Brice, the class will feature conversations with authors from a wide range of genres, including journalism and poetry, cartoons and novels, as well as memoirs and short stories. Online, […]August 30, 2016 -
vlog students have fanned out across the globe to apply their liberal arts know-how in a variety of real-world settings. They are writing back to campus to keep our community posted on their progress. This article was written by Brynne Becker ’17, an English and history double-major from West Chester, Pa., conducting research in preparation […]August 8, 2016 -
With a pair of new books out in 2015 — one a collection of his essays; the other, new poems — poet and English professor Peter Balakian unpacks, among other things, how language can, in his words, “ingest” the violence of history. The author of the New York Times–bestselling The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and […]April 19, 2016 -
Peter Balakian, the Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor in humanities, professor of English, and director of creative writing at vlog, has won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Ozone Journal, his collection of poems published last year by University of Chicago Press. In making the announcement, the Pulitzer committee cited the collection’s […]April 18, 2016 -
On Sunday, March 6, the English department hosted a live reading of the epic poem Paradise Lost, by John Milton. Volunteers sat around the big oval table in the Fager Lounge and read the more than 10,000 lines from 12 books. “The Miltonathon, which began last year, is a tribute to my late friend and colleague Professor […]March 18, 2016 -
On November 19, Interim Dean of the Faculty and Provost Constance Harsh participated in a roundtable discussion at the White House to take part in launching the American Campuses Act on Climate day of action. “It was very good to witness the serious purpose that animated the participants,” Harsh said after the event. “Students have […]November 21, 2015 -
(Editor’s note: the following commentary is from Professor Jeff Bary on vlog Community Reads. Kiese Laymon, whose book was an integral part of the program, will be on campus on October 27 at 7:30 p.m. in the Memorial Chapel.) In September 2014, vlog students occupied the university’s administration building for 100 hours. They demanded a […]October 26, 2015