A professor of history and American studies at Wheaton College in Massachusetts, says the anti-war protests now underway have the potential of being "much bigger and more significant than the early demonstrations against the Vietnam War" in the 1960s.
As New England cities and towns change, traditions and community history may fade. John Harris and his colleagues at the Monadnock Institute of Nature, Place and Culture at Franklin Pierce College have developed an ambitious project to collect and record New Hampshire stories--to make them available to future generations.
Little is known about the worms that inhabit the bodies of animals, our pets or ourselves. Dennis J. Richardson, assistant professor of biology at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Ct., is working to change that.
One hundred Americans study at Harlaxton College, a sprawling 19th century manor in central England, each semester. The University of Evansville, which has owned and operated the highly rated study-abroad destination since 1971, has announced new leadership for the overseas college: J. Gordon Kingsley, former president of William Jewell College in Missouri.
Professor Michael Drout of Wheaton College in Massachusetts has created a distinctive niche as an expert in the writings and legacy of J.R.R. Tolkien. He discovered an unpublished book by Tolkien while working on a project in an Oxford library in 1996. The book, "Beowulf and the Critics," was published this week.
"When it comes to stationing large numbers of military personnel abroad," Wheaton College historian Anni Baker notes, "the United States has more than 50 years of valuable lessons from which we need to learn."
Many of us do little more than read about stress-reduction during the holiday season, according to a psychology professor and stress-management expert at Mount St. Mary's College. "We get caught up in meeting everyone else's needs and expectations," she says, "and this gives us little time to reflect on the holidays and what they mean to us."
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