Your Gifts at Work

Faculty Support

Your gifts not only help Dickinson add endowed faculty chairs to attract and retain highly accomplished scholar-teachers—they also help the college offer students the personalized mentoring and student-faculty research opportunities that are critical components of the Dickinson experience.

Patricia Moonsammy

The assistant professor and Distinguished Chair of Africana Studies discusses calypso, rapso and expressive culture in the Caribbean.
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Found in Translation

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

Meet two professors who willingly put themselves—and their rental cars—in harm's way for inspiration.
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Fear Factor

Assistant Professor of Psychology Jon Page leads students through an exploration of how the brain works under threat.
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Seeds of Memory

Associate Professor of Psychology Teresa Barber and her summer interns set out to test the efficacy of cumin on regaining memory.
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Better Living Through Mathematics

Building an honors project around the assignment of First-Year Seminars results in an invaluable tool for the college.
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Reptile Wrangling

Assistant Professor of Biology Scott Boback and interns explore the habits and habitats of painted and snapping turtles.
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Failure Is Only the Beginning

Editing an upcoming book proves to be the heady focus of a summer research project.
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The Alligator, the Angel and the Wardrobe

Sydney Moffat '14 is working on theatre professor Sherry Harper-McCombs' costume design and construction project.
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Beach Gift Furthers Lasting Connection to College

Walter Beach '56 funds faculty chairs through a $7 million estate gift.

Faculty Chairs

The transformational power of the First in America capital campaign was celebrated at a January board of trustees reception and dinner, during which two new endowed faculty chairs were installed.
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There’s a wholly different way of teaching today. Faculty are working with students on internships, research and fieldwork. ... Faculty are the heart of this place, and the more strongly that heart beats, the better off we are.

—Neil Weissman, provost and dean of the college