Money magazine recently ranked the nation’s roughly 1,500 four-year colleges to determine “the most bang for your tuition buck,” as the magazine puts it. First, schools with a below-average graduation rate were screened out; then the remaining 665 were ranked on a number of factors in three main categories: ...
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During preseason training, Principia College’s cross-country teams, along with the volleyball and men’s and women’s soccer teams, stepped away from the fields and courts and turned their attention to helping others. They visited Peace Haven, a St. Louis-area Christian Science care facility, to help with landscaping, paint residents’ fingernails, ...
Democratic State Representative Joe Fitzgibbon (US’03, C’07) was elected by Washington’s 34 th District in 2010, just three years after graduating from Principia College. Since then, he has focused considerable attention on environmental issues—leading to his appointment as chair of the House Environment Committee in January 2014. In ...
How do you build an interpretive exhibit for the 17,500-year-old mammoth (nicknamed Benny) who was found buried near Rackham Court in 1999 and, in his prime, would have measured about 11 feet tall at the shoulder and weighed approximately six tons? Students recently learned the answer—you get your hands ...
During this summer's College reunion, Principia welcomed and honored two 2014 recipients of the David K. Andrews (DKA) Alumni Award.
Dr. George Moffett (C'65) served as president of Principia College from 1996 to 2007. Prior to his time at Principia, he served as Middle East and diplomatic ...
SETI Institute, a nonprofit organization in California whose mission is to “explore, understand and explain the origin, nature and prevalence of life in the universe,” hosted three Principia interns this summer. Dr. Laurance Doyle, director of Principia’s Institute for the Metaphysics of Physics and a principal investigator and astrophysicist ...
Principia College’s solar car team placed fifth last week in the American Solar Challenge (ASC), an eight-day, 1,700-mile road race traveling through seven states from Austin, Texas, to Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The strong finish was all the more remarkable after the car was nearly ruined between the first and ...
With a volatile political situation evolving in Russia, Principia’s Russia Abroad switched its destination to Nice, France, a city that has welcomed Russian people on holiday or in exile since the nineteenth century. This change provided a unique opportunity for students to explore aspects of Russian culture in connection ...
As our first student-athletes return for Upper School sports camps this week, I’m feeling grateful for a productive summer and excited for the new academic year. Classes start at all levels the week of August 25.
Meanwhile, we have plenty of good news to report. Principia College was ...