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In Chasing the Sun, artist and Davidson College Professor Joelle Dietrick combines the lost beauty of extinct plants with green architecture. Dietrick’s intertwining organic and geometric forms use beauty to pull viewers into an important conversation about plant conservation and sustainability efforts. Learn more.

Mišo Vukčević ’18 started creating his own video game as a project for a Davidson College digital narratives course. Today, he leads a team of three that produced Bleak Faith: Forsaken, an action role playing game that’s taken off since its release in March. Learn more.

A French documentary film crew weighs in on a mystery that has occupied the imaginations of amateur historians—some of them Davidson College alums—for centuries. Learn more. 

The Hulu series Sam—A Saxon offers a heart-stopping history lesson on the resurgence of Nazism in East Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Davidson College will be the first in America to host the cast and creators as part of an international tour.

Prof. Julio Ramirez, R. Stuart Dickson Professor of Psychology and director of the neuroscience program, received a 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Psychological Science for his dedication to his students.

When he learned of Davidson’s search for a professor specializing in Black contemporary theatre, he felt the job was made for him. 

Brown Payne ’24 has used his time at Davidson to dive headfirst into the world of art.

Q&A with Jon Kleinberg, the Tisch University Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Information Science at Cornell University. He will deliver the Wearn Lecture, “How Do Algorithms See The World?” on Thursday, September 14.

College admission isn’t like a head-to-head race. Read the opinion piece by Carol Quillen, history professor and president emerita at Davidson College, and senior fellow with the Aspen Institute.

Carol Quillen, history professor and president emerita at Davidson College, and senior fellow with the Aspen Institute, on how to talk about free speech. Read her opinion piece in The Hill.

In the late 1960’s Davidson College’s Commission on Coeducation concluded that the then- all-male college was missing out on some of the brightest and most talented potential students: Women. The commission included faculty, trustees and three students who urged college leaders to open its doors to women, “or slowly atrophy.” Trustees in 1972 voted unanimously to admit women as full-time students. 

Philip Jefferson, former vice president for academic affairs and economics professor at Davidson College, received broad, bipartisan support as the U.S. Senate confirmed him as Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve.

Having grown up watching family members struggle with treatable and sometimes preventable illnesses like high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes and asthma, Xzavier Killings '16 utilized the resources and mentorship of Davidson to pursue a career in medicine where he could bring awareness, health and wellness to his family and his community. 

Beyond critical thinking, writing and communicating well, lessons like raising a hand and speaking up without fear are just a few of the takeaways from Davidson that Caroline Okel ’19 has applied to her work in the finance world of New York City. 

Nathanael Bagonza ’24, an English major and creative non-fiction writer from Haverhill, Massachusetts, spent the summer as a legislative intern for Congressman Seth Moulton, who represents Massachusetts’ 6th District.

The Gamma Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at Davidson College is pleased to publicly announce the first eleven members of the Class of 2024.

Davidson College’s Class of 2027 celebrated another important rite by running in the annual Cake Race on Aug. 31. Tropical Storm Idalia postponed the race for a day—and Thursday’s clear, sunny skies with low humidity offered optimal running weather. The tradition for students to run for cake began in 1930 as a track coach’s recruitment tool.

Davidson College competes at the highest level academically and athletically. Today the college unveiled a new logo and visual identity that reflects the qualities that distinguish Davidson. Learn more.

Davidson College is examining the history of the Beaver Dam plantation house and property in an effort to determine how best to preserve the property and utilize it as an educational site for the college and the public. Learn more.

With Swifties around the world rejoicing at the release of Taylor Swift's rerecorded ‘1989,’ sociology professor Aarushi Bhandari found joy at the Eras Tour and a reminder that what happens online doesn’t always translate to the real world.