Provost Connie Hungerford announced last Friday that Gayle Barton will take over the role of Director of ITS in January. Barton is currently the Director of Instructional Technology at Williams [...]
Sick students are now able to get a much wider variety of prescription drugs at Worth through a new partnership with a Media pharmacy. Plans are also underway to ease the process of making their off-campus medical appointments.
Ron Krall, a senior vice president in worldwide development at GlaxoSmithKline, spoke Friday about pharmaceutical ethics, particularly giving patients access to experimental medication outside of clinical trials. Krall, who was [...]
Two new college committees are currently in the process of being formed. One will focus provide long-term planning for sustainability at the College, while the other will focus on instituting and recommending socially responsible programs.
This fall, the Office of Multicultural Affairs continued its series of diversity conversations, which provided a "sustained opportunity for small groups of students to come together...to really explore a particular area of interest."
Philadelphia natives The Roots and opener Hezekiah played in LPAC on Saturday. Their unique blend of live-instrumented, jam-oriented hip hop was well-received by Swatties; although there were empty seats in the theater, that was only because there were so many standing up
The Peaslee Debate Society hosted an Army/Navy debate on Thursday night; the Army and Navy debating societies argued the appropriateness of private security contractors, both in Iraq and in general [...]
How we can be sure Swarthmore is better than New Jersey: although the Swarthmore squirrels are pretty bad, none of them has ever lit itself on fire and exploded a car.
John Mather, a Swarthmore alumnus and Noble laureate, gave the McCabe lecture for this year. He told "the story of the whole universe, from the Big Bang to far in the future. Unfortunately," he quipped, "I can’t tell you every detail of