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Julia Matthiesen ’24 is the inaugural recipient of the Malú Alvarez Visual Art Scholarship, created by artist and alumna Malú Alvarez ’02. In addition to art, Matthiesen is interested in computer science and is excited about the ways her interests will mesh at Davidson.
Inspired by the racial justice protests of summer 2020 and a family legacy, Davidson College men's basketball standout Kellan Grady launches College Athletes for Respect and Equality (CARE).
Davidson College Charles A. Dana Professor of English Emeritus Anthony S. Abbott passed away Oct. 3, 2020. Colleagues remember the light he brought into their lives as a scholar, teacher, mentor and friend.
The College Crisis Initiative, a Davidson College pandemic research project led by Prof. Chris Marsicano and students, makes international headlines.
Economic experts frequently disagree, but a Davidson College-led national panel of four of them reached a consensus about the year ahead: The recovery will be swift…and uneven.
As we prepare to welcome 2021, we pause to remember 2020. It was a year of loss, anxiety, reckoning, resilience, and yes, hope.
Last spring on a nearly empty campus, chair and associate professor of Environmental Studies Brad Johnson pored over maps of Linville Gorge, an unusually steep, rugged canyon among the Blue Ridge Mountains in western North Carolina.
Sending you and yours hope for seasons of togetherness to come, and best wishes for the New Year.
Harvard’s president lost his job. So did a Google researcher. Mattel recalled a new version of “Barbie.” Each was a consequence of reinforcing the harmful stereotype that girls and women can’t compete with boys and men in science and math.
Web trackers collect your data and auction it off to vendors who push you toward impulse buys. To fight back, Davidson College professors Joelle Dietrick and Owen Mundy created Tally Saves the Internet, a multi-player game that blocks data trackers and educates players about data privacy.
The fine taste of Davidson College is headed to your coffee cup and pint glass. Davidson worked with two longstanding partners to produce “Wildcat Blend” coffee and “O Davidson Lager.”
Astronaut Tom Marshburn ’82 will share stories and insights from his training over the next year with Davidson.edu readers as he prepares for his third trip to the International Space Station. This is the first of those reports.
In a year that brought a pandemic, nationwide protests and a brighter spotlight on racial inequities and injustice, Davidson College students came together to create a mural with a simple, powerful slogan of the ongoing social justice movement: BLACK LIVES MATTER.
Theatre Prof Steve Kaliski ’07 and student directors embraced the challenge of creating in the time of COVID with a socially-distanced production titled “Ubi Orta Pestilentia: A Davidson Zombie Apocalypse.”
In an interview with NPR’s All Things Considered, pediatrician and researcher Sallie Permar ’97 explained why the COVID-19 vaccines coming to market soon will not be available to children, who have been largely excluded from clinical trials.
Two of the most prominent experts and authors on higher education recently visited Davidson College by Zoom for a discussion of how college admission really works. Watch for more insights and recommendations on how to navigate the admission world.
U.S. Navy Commander Andrew Letizia ’99 is interviewed for a CBS News piece on a cutting-edge study he led to understand how young people’s bodies react to the novel coronavirus.
