Your Gifts at Work

Academic Programming

Your gifts help Dickinson provide innovative, interdisciplinary, hands-on learning experiences in the useful liberal arts. Here are some stories highlighting the programs that prepare our students to engage the world and tackle 21st-century problems.

Found in Translation

Latin and mathematics intersect in an ongoing project that links students, faculty and academic departments.
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Getting Personal

These senior-research projects examine fascinating phenomena in American culture, some with highly personal ties.
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A Quick Look: English 404

The English 404 workshop gives students an intensive writing and editing experience.
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Articulating an American Aesthetic

Students uncover works and writings by acclaimed, yet little-known artist as part of a unique curation seminar that preps them for life in the professional art world.
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Digging Deeper

Baird Sustainability Fellows Program candidates probe Michael Shellenberger's provocative environmental stance.

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Raptor Shadows on the Sleeping Blue Lady

Mosaic students take to a mountaintop perch to study raptors as they migrate.
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King Phillip Came Over for Good Soup

As part of the fall Mosaic, students go fossil hunting in a local quarry.
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Crabbing with Ooker

Dickinson’s Mosaic program takes students to the Chesapeake Bay, leaving the traditional classroom far behind.
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A Peaceable Pact

From student internships to faculty research, Dickinson and the U.S. Army War College learn that sharing is a good thing.
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Dickinson challenged me to step outside of my comfort zone and beyond the boundaries that I had set for myself. I developed the confidence to take risks and learned to trust my instincts—these are lessons that have yielded tremendous rewards in my professional and personal life.

—Jason Gong '06