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Reaping Rewards of Students’ Research for More Than a Decade

From 2000 through 2007, while teaching in the Physics Department at Principia College, Dr. Benjamin Brown (C’71) worked with physics majors to develop a positron beam and trap. (Positrons are antimatter electrons.) Support for the $200,000 project came from the Principia Fund for Excellence and the Peninsula Foundation, funded by ...

A Successful Start to Fall Term

With almost a month of classes under their belts, students and faculty at the School and College have settled into the new routines in place for in-person instruction—sanitizing hands, wearing masks, maintaining social distance, and so on. While these protocols alter the learning experience, they do not define it. Students ...

Summer Research during Unusual Times

Despite pandemic-related restrictions limiting those allowed on campus this summer, progress continued on land research projects that have been underway for several years.

Dr. Andrew Martin, an archaeologist and associate professor in the Art and Art History Department, has worked with a team of students since 2017 to excavate ...

School of Government Update

See all the progess on the renovation and construction of the School of Government.

Professor John Williams Appointed as College President

After serving as interim College president for eight months, Professor John W. Williams, JD, was appointed as president of Principia College in July.

A longtime member of the Political Science Department, Williams was the inaugural recipient of the Principia College Horace Edwin Harper Jr. and Evelyn Wright Harper Award ...

Professor and Curator Announces New Exhibit

In addition to teaching in the Department of Art and Art History, Studio Art Professor Duncan Martin (C’76) and I have been co-directing the James K. Schmidt Gallery since it opened in fall 2017 as part of the renovated Voney Art Center. The gallery has two primary purposes: 1) to ...

Help in the Wake of Hurricane Laura

Recognizing the impact on families with school- and college-age children living in areas affected by Hurricane Laura, Principia is offering tuition-free enrollment (including no charge for room and board) for the 2020–2021 academic year.

As long as space is available, Principia School and College seek to support qualified Christian ...

The Year in Review

Take a peek at the past school year, full of progress, accomplishment, fun—and an opportunity for online learning.

College Online Concert Draws Thousands of Views

Friends of Principia from far and wide came together virtually in early May to watch the Principia College Music Department’s first-ever online concert. The performers were all College alumni who have gone on to become professional musicians across a wide variety of musical genres, including traditional and contemporary jazz, classical, ...

Putting Learning into Practice: 3D Printing PPE

After learning during spring break that people were using 3D printers to help remedy shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) in the region, Dr. Marie Farson, assistant professor of earth science, invited students from earlier classes on 3D printing to join the effort. In all, four former 3D Printing students ...

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