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A Connecticut College senior asked 100 fellow students – all men – why vaginas are important to them. The resulting video, posted to YouTube, is a powerful, provocative and sometimes awkward 8-minute piece that has sparked conversations about vaginas, women, sex and consent on college campuses across the country and even across oceans.

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Connecticut College students and a professor of neuroscience have found “America’s favorite cookie” is just as addictive as cocaine – at least for lab rats. In a study designed to shed light on the potential addictiveness of high-fat/ high-sugar foods, Professor Joseph Schroeder and his students found rats formed an equally strong association between the pleasurable effects of eating Oreos and a specific environment as they did between cocaine or morphine and a specific environment. They also found that eating cookies activated more neurons in the brain’s “pleasure center” than exposure to drugs of abuse.

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The Connecticut College Board of Trustees voted today to elect Katherine Bergeron, currently dean of the college at Brown University, the 11th president of Connecticut College. Bergeron will take office Jan. 1, 2014.

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The role of colleges in redevelopment of their host cities is the subject of a community development summit hosted by Connecticut College Sept. 21-22 with participating institutions such as University of Notre Dame, Bates College and others active in downtowns' revitalization.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning environmentalist E.O. Wilson to keynote Connecticut College graduation, May 27.

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Science students at Connecticut College take a spring break research "TRIP" to Belize that's not a vacation; they will conduct research in rain forests and coral reefs.

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Healing racism will be the focus of workshop sessions led by renowned authors, speakers and facilitators with international reputations in race relations at conference October 15-17 at Connecticut College.

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Economy, ecology & equity in future of urban planning and sustainable development focus of national summit Oct. 21-22 at Connecticut College, cosponsored by UN Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat).

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Frank McCourt, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Angela's Ashes" will be the keynote speaker at the 81st commencement ceremonies at Connecticut College Saturday, May 29, beginning at 10 a.m. in New London, CT.

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Monsanto Company receives "Inherit the Earth" gold medal award from Connecticut College for combining "environmental stewardship with jobs, productivity, and profits."

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Perpetrators of the Oklahoma City bombing have their roots in rural radicals and anti-government hate groups tracing back to Shay's Rebellion; Waco's Branch Davidians have roots not unlike cult beginnings of Christianity, say two Connecticut College historians who have authored books that detail lessons learned from these two tragedies, which share an anniversary April 19.

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A Connecticut College botany professor and Garden Club of America medalist has started a new environmental movement to reverse the lawn-care mania in America. He advocates smaller lawns be replaced by ecologically-sound, naturalistic landscaping that will reduce maintenance and air, noise and water pollution.

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A Connecticut College psychology professor, author and researcher says the disease-based concept for addiction treatment, as embodied in recovery programs like AA, ignores the root causes of addiction and will unlikely achieve sustained recovery when used alone.