In 1968, President Lyndon Johnson established Hispanic Heritage Month to recognize and celebrate the cultures of Mexico, Spain, the Caribbean, and Spanish-speaking regions and countries of Central and South America. The week long event was expanded to 30 days in 1988 by President Reagan and… Read Article
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University Theatre kicks off its 81st season with the Pulitzer Prize-winning 'Doubt: A Parable' on Sept. 19:
"Doubt" is set in 1964. In a parallel with the present moment, new Pope Paul VI is shaking up the Catholic church by pushing a series of reforms, reaching out to other faiths to… Read Article
Great news this month about our faculty, students and alumni. A few of the highlight of accomplishments and awards in the Franklin College:
University Professor Lynn Billard of the department of statistics was selected to receive the 2013 Florence Nightingale David… Read Article
Here's a sampling of Franklin College faculty writing and quoted in the media this month:
“The secret bromance of Nixon and Brezhnev” – Posting by associate professor of history Stephen Mihm in Bloomberg News, picked up by the History News Network.
A second posting by… Read Article
Incredible news for department of English alumna Ashlee (Adams) Crews ( A.B., 2000) who was selected for one of the six 2013 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards and will receive $30,000:
In recognition of the special contributions women writers make to our culture and society, The… Read Article