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  • A Spirit of Inquiry

    The drive to know more unites professors and students in spaces across and beyond campus.

  • Global Education

    A globalizing world needs citizens and leaders with the international understanding that Dickinson provides.

  • Your Dickinson Experience

    Dickinson offers the freedom to seek connections and explore your interests in and out of the classroom.

  • Thinking Globally, Acting Locally

    Dickinson is a leader among educational institutions committed to environmental sustainability and green initiatives.

  • A Useful Education

    Dickinson was founded to prepare students to take leadership roles in a new democracy. This legacy lives on today.


Upcoming Events

  • FRI
    18

    Book Reading: Hunger Angel by Herta Müller

    4:00 pm Althouse 106

    Honorary degree recipient and Nobel prize-winning author

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  • SAT
    19

    Baccalaureate

    3:00 pm Campus


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  • SAT
    19

    Commencement Mass

    6:00 pm Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center

    No confessions are offered.

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  • SUN
    20

    Commencement

    10:00 am Campus


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Weekly Calendar of Events

News

Bill McKibben to receive inaugural Sam Rose ’58 and Julie Walters Prize.
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Honorary doctorates will be conferred on Petraeus, John H. Adams, Herta Müller and Nina Totenberg.
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Most extensive campus-enhancement effort in college history will enrich academics, athletics and student life. 
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Allison Murawski ’12 will head to Germany this fall as Fulbright Research Scholar, and Julie King ’12 will join her through a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship. 
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Co-captain Taryn Abbassian ’12 gives a shout-out to the women’s lacrosse team for their confidence and work ethic.
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Three seniors garner competitive French teaching assistantships
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Award-winning poet champions the spoken word—and the importance of giving.
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There were 59 new projects in this year's Science Research Symposium—each with fascinating findings.
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From full-time jobs to graduate school and Fulbright research, check out what Dickinson seniors will be doing after graduation. 
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Commencement
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Dickinsonian Achievements

Photographic Memories

Vietnam, Mamet, Adirondacks, a fire truck and Heineken dark lagers helped set the scene of a career in photography for A. Pierce Bounds ’71.

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Andrea Alexander ’05

Before multicultural sororities Delta Sigma Theta and Sigma Lambda Gamma became fixtures at Dickinson, there was The Sisterhood.

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History

Founded in 1773 and received its charter in 1783, making Dickinson the first college chartered in the newly recognized United States; named in honor of John Dickinson, the penman of the American Revolution and a signer of the Constitution.
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