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Senior Fellows in Davidson College’s Office of Admission & Financial Aid share their tips and tricks for navigating and writing the college essay.
Wondering what a weekend at Davidson College can look like as a student? Haley Stock ’25 shares the many ways Wildcats spend their weekends around campus, town and in Charlotte.
During the competitive season, Wildcat scholar-athletes find themselves miles away from campus with extra time on their hands. Davidson College staffers now add career development opportunities while these students are on the road.
Alum Ginny Newell ’78 has enjoyed a career as one of the few conservators in the Southeast specializing in restoring fine art. She was among the first women to attend Davidson College, where her love of chemistry and art started her on a unique professional journey. Learn more.
The success of Davidson College’s ArtMate program, which allows students to enhance their dorm room décor with high-end art works from the college’s collection, led to an expansion of the program this year. Learn more.
When applying to Davidson, all applicants are required to submit a peer letter of recommendation — someone of similar age who can speak to who you are as a human being beyond a transcript, essay or list of extracurriculars. Learn more.
The strength of community at Davidson College inspired one alum to capture the joy she felt as a part of that community in a work of art. That piece now graces the walls of the E.H. Little Library, thanks to alum Eliz Kirkland Sickles. Learn more.
The now-familiar black and white nutrition facts label found on food products in the U.S. was hailed as a triumph of public health and graphic design, according to The Washington Post. We have Davidson College alum Burkey Belser ‘69 to thank. Learn more.
Book bans as a form of censorship have a long and storied history. A Davidson College prof examines the motives behind book bans and their unintended effects. Read more.
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 fall of the Berlin Wall led to a resurgence of Nazism in Germany that echoes today. The Hulu series Sam—A Saxon follows the troubles of Samuel Meffire, the country’s first Afro-German police officer. Davidson College became the first in America to host the show’s cast and crew during an international education 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.