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Nine recent Davidson College graduates have been selected to participate in the 2024-2025 Fulbright U.S. Student Program, and three were named as alternates. They’ll head to Spain, Taiwan, Guatemala and Andorra for graduate study and teaching assistantships.

Professor of Biology Dave Wessner covers the COVID outbreak at the Olympics, and what makes this year different from 2020.

Lilly Sirover ’24 strives to ensure that those facing stress, from elite athletes to physicians dealing with life and death decisions, get support to remain physically and mentally healthy. The former women’s track and field team distance runner is a 2024 Davidson College Smith Scholar, which honors academic achievement, leadership, character and community service.

For thousands of Davidson College students and nearly 200 research advisees, Prof. Malcolm Campbell’s classes and labs became places of self-discovery. Campbell retires after more than three decades of teaching. Learn more about his impact. 

Davidson College will honor retirees this week during a special end-of-year celebration. Here, we congratulate the faculty and staff who have contributed immeasurably to the college community.

After Robert F. Kennedy’s revelation that doctors thought a tapeworm had lived in his brain, Davidson College Biology Professor Scott Villa shares how and why tapeworms find their way into human brains. Learn more.

Davidson College and the Catawba Nation have entered into a partnership that touches agriculture, art and cultural understanding. Read more.

Davidson College celebrated the Class of 2024 at its 187th commencement on Sunday, May 12. “Remember that hope is an action verb,” President Doug Hicks told graduates. “You are not just inheriting a world; you can and must shape that world.” Read more.

Davidson College students Izzie Meyers ’25 and Kenan Wood ’25 have been awarded Goldwater scholarships for the 2024-2025 academic year. The award recognizes students for outstanding academic achievement in the natural sciences, mathematics and engineering.

Cicadas have captured the imagination for thousands of years with their strange, buggy beauty and swelling songs. Davidson College Professor of Biology Chris Paradise shares why this upcoming cicada event is of interest and what humans sharing space with cicadas can expect. Learn more.

Davidson College’s annual Verna Miller Case Research and Creative Works Symposium gives students a chance to showcase what they’ve learned and produced during the year. It’s an all-day celebration that brings the entire campus together.

A partnership between Davidson College and Green Legacy Hiroshima brings Gingko trees to campus that are descendents of trees that survived the bombing of Hiroshima. The saplings represent resilience and will be planted in the center of campus. 

Davidson students reflect on their alternative spring break trip to Sapelo Island, Georgia. They worked with a Black feminist collective nonprofit led by Davidson alums to address food insecurity in the South through sustainable agriculture.

On April 11, Davidson College’s 2024 Spring Convocation celebrated the academic, athletic, artistic and many other achievements of its students, and recognized some faculty and staff members who contribute to their success. Read more.

A Davidson College audience got some insider insight about public health leaders’ thinking and actions during the coronavirus pandemic. The college recently hosted a talk, “Lessons from the COVID-19 Response: Reflections on Masking," with John T. Brooks, infectious disease expert with the CDC. Learn more.

In the Davidson College biology course “Insects and People,” students learn about the many ways insects, the animal group with the largest percentage of organisms, interact with humans. Learn more. 

Three Davidson College students from the German Studies department reflect on a week of independent research in Berlin with their professor and thesis advisor. From plays to museums to food, learn more in this photo essay.

Jacquelline Nyakunu ’26 discusses her chemistry and biology research as part of RISE, an undergraduate research opportunity for Davidson College students. 

Senior Fellows in Davidson College’s Office of Admission & Financial Aid share their tips and tricks for navigating and writing the college essay.

Twelve young Davidson alums were recently selected to participate in the 2023-2024 Fulbright U.S. Student Program. They have been offered grants for independent research and English Teaching Assistantships in 10 different countries. Learn more.