Adding to his NCAA Division III Indoor Championship in the 200 m dash, sophomore Corey Carter won the 200 m DIII Outdoor Championship over Memorial Day weekend, running a personal best of 20:89. After a false start in the 100 m, Corey was disqualified from that race, ...
Family and friends gathered in Cox Auditorium on Saturday, May 18, to celebrate and honor this year’s seniors. In all, 97 graduates make up the Class of 2019—69 received BAs, and 28 received BS degrees. Following the ceremony, jubilant graduates joined excited well-wishers on the Chapel Green for photos and ...
The Principia College Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation sponsored a Shark Tank -style innovation challenge in April with 10 teams presenting two-minute pitches to a panel of judges and a lively audience in Wanamaker Hall. Projects ranged from a web platform for culturally enriching travel experiences to stylish jeans with ...
Kiki Holmes and Jake Smith, freshmen in this semester’s American Government class taught by Political Science Professor John Williams (C’76), traveled to Washington, DC, in April for two intensive days on Capitol Hill. The trip offered opportunities to see Congress in action, attend meetings with senators and congressional staff, and ...
In early April, Principia’s rugby team, the Thunder Chickens, qualified for the USA Rugby 7s DII National Championship, where they’ll compete for the sixth year in a row! The tournament takes place this year in Tucson, Arizona, over Memorial Day Weekend. As thrilled as the team was to qualify for ...
The College hosted a diversity and inclusion consultant and an expert in inclusive pedagogy this spring for a series of interactive workshops as part of an ongoing commitment to create a more culturally competent learning community, where students, faculty, and staff move beyond familiar boundaries to understand those with different ...
Principia’s Public Affairs Conference (PAC) marked a significant milestone in early April with its 70th anniversary. Through the decades, PAC has addressed global and domestic issues while identifying possible solutions, and this year’s conference, “Education: Your Asset for Global Change," was no exception.
The PAC Board, made up of ...
“Our ‘classroom’ was a 60-foot catamaran boat!” exclaims Taylor McIntire (C’19), who traveled with Dr. Marie Farson and 10 classmates on an Oceanography class field trip to the Gulf of Mexico in April. The students (most of whom are not science majors) conducted hands-on research, collecting oceanographic data and adding ...
In April, Principia College presented professional musicians and race-relations experts Arno Michaelis and Daryl Davis as this year’s Ernie and Lucha Vogel Moral Courage Lecturers. Michaelis, a former skinhead and hate-metal band member, and Davis, an African American, Grammy-nominated blues and jazz musician, seem an unlikely pair. Yet, the two ...
Principia’s mediation team made a strong showing at the 2019 INADR International Law School Mediation Tournament in Athens, Greece, in March.
The team, composed of juniors Brittany Duke and Mackenzie Batten and sophomore Hunter Hummell, claimed ninth place in Team Advocacy and reached the semifinal round of 16 teams. ...
