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Kevin Iglesias ’17, of Silver Spring, Md., has been awarded a Fulbright research grant to travel to Brazil to study public health. Iglesias, a peace and conflict studies major, will conduct research in the city of Salvador, Bahia, on the relationship between black/Afro-Brazilian LGBT identities and ethnic forms of traditional healing in Afro-Matrix Religions (AMR). […]

A non-profit in Nepal is the recipient of a $10,000 KIND Cause award, thanks to the efforts of a º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ alumna and a little help from the º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ community. Children and Youth First USA Executive Director Amanda Brown ’15 said that the funds won in the KIND contest will help her organization launch a new science, […]

Congratulations to Maggie Dunne ’13 and Ryan Smith ’13, each of whom has made an appearance on one of Forbes magazine’s 30 Under 30 lists. Dunne, who double majored in Native American studies and religion, founded Lakota Children’s Enrichment, Inc., (LCE) while still in high school. As a º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ sophomore, she joined the university’s Thought Into Action […]

According to a recent article by U.S. News and World Report, º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ ranks 10th among universities nationwide for four-year graduation rates. The rankings consider undergraduates who started working on their first bachelor’s degree in 2008. With 89.7 percent of its students graduating within four years according to the report, º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ joins schools like Carleton College, […]

Howard Fineman ’70, H’11, one of º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½â€™s most well-known alumni in the media field, has been appointed global editorial director at the Huffington Post. Fineman, who was previously an editorial director at the company, will now be in charge of supervising U.S. news coverage as well 13 international editions and others that will come online in the future.