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Students in Diverse Disciplines Work With World-renowned Newberry Consort

The internationally acclaimed music ensemble visits Dickinson as part of an artistic residency that included a choir workshop, classroom discussions and individual instruction with students.

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Dickinson College Research Examines How Natural Disasters Affect Poverty

Student-faculty research looks at the economic wake of nature’s path.

Collaborative Calligraphy Project

Dickinson College Research Team Explores ‘Stay-Behinds’ in Rural China

Student-faculty research team travels to China to examine what happens to Chinese villages in the wake of mass out-migration to urban centers.

Students work together in front of a computer in a biology lab.

Uncharted Territory

Grant-funded program provides Dickinson students rare opportunities to explore cancer and prepare for careers in research and medicine.

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Dickinson College Partnership Programs Offer Distinctive Opportunities

Dickinson partners with RPI, Johns Hopkins, Thunderbird School of Global Management and others to launch careers in engineering, business, law and more.

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Dickinson College Launches Quantitative Economics Major

New STEM-classified major has far-reaching benefits for both domestic and international students.

David O'Connell at Commencement 2018

Political Science Professor Awarded Dickinson College Prize for Inspirational Teaching

David O’Connell, assistant professor of political science, has been named the 2018 recipient of Dickinson’s Constance & Rose Ganoe Memorial Award for Inspirational Teaching.

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Dickinson College Chemistry Class Explores the Presence of Drug Residue on U.S. Currency

Chemistry students master chemical-measurement techniques by testing money for traces of illicit substances.

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Dickinson College Student-Faculty Research Takes Aim at Billion-Dollar Farm Pest

Student-faculty research zeroes in on horn flies, a costly pest for America’s farmers.

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Kudos: Spring 2018

The spring roundup of accolades include a number of impressive awards as well as media mentions in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report, and on CNN.com.

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Academics in Action

Dickinson has more than 200 faculty experts who research, inspire, create, mentor, challenge and innovate. Meet six of these scholars and discover what they’ve been up to this year.

Students examine a staged crime scene to explore a wide array of scientific fields

Forensic Files (the Biology Class, Not the Show)

Biology students examine a staged crime scene to explore a wide array of scientific fields.

Illustration of a wintry campus. Cover art (detail) by Colleen Freichs '17,

Hot off the Presses

Take a sneak peek at what's inside the winter 2018 issue of Dickinson Magazine.

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Rigorous and Rewarding

From Theoretical Physics to Literature of the Global South, students share the courses that challenged them, changed their perspectives and became impossible to forget.

With University College London, Dickinson astronomers track the 7 Iris asteroid.

A Screaming Comes Across the Sky

Armed with Dickinson’s observatory telescope, a partnership with a university across the ocean and a keen understanding of physics, students calculate the speed of an asteroid 90 million miles away.

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