Elon faculty, staff receives promotions
Several Elon faculty and staff where promoted while students enjoyed their summer. Among the promotinos were Connie Book, Angela Lewellyn-Jones, Tim Peeples, Mary Wise and Peter Felten.
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Grad Students Help Preserve Cultural Heritage Across U.S., Around Globe
"President James Monroe needs a bath -- and I'm the one filling the tub," writes Renee Wolcott, a University of Delaware master's student in art conservation. Wolcott is referring to the challenging task of cleaning a foxed and ink-stained 19th-century engraving of the fifth U.S. president during her summer internship at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.
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Inside Texoma, Graduate Jobs
When it comes to Texoma, we are proud of our grads, both high school and college. So many are working hard to keep them right here, employed and in Wichita Falls.
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Nature, nurture and pizza: How an innovative farmhouse project is teaching families everyday practical skills
Two dozen people are sitting around a Kent farmhouse table eating lunch a homely and unremarkable scene. But the anxiety of some of the adults, and the feral eating habits of some of the children, show this is not what it seems. For many of those passing around the plates of fresh pasta and salad this is a rare moment of normality in traumatised lives.
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New Twain manuscript acquired by The Bancroft Library's Mark Twain Papers & Project
As it prepares for its publication of Twain's autobiography on the 100th anniversary of his death, the library has acquired "A Family Sketch," his 64-page, unpublished tribute to his daughter. The manuscript records remarkable details about the entire Clemens household, servants included.
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