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April 19, 2018Sonia Norton ’18 is the latest Earlhamite to be selected as a Fulbright Scholar as part of the United States’ flagship government exchange program. The Politics major from Los Angeles will serve as an English Teaching Assistant in India during the 2018-19 academic year. Fulbright recipients receive three weeks of teaching and language training and are paid a stipend to cover living expenses for the year.

April 16, 2018A major new college completion initiative at Earlham College this year is keeping students in the classroom who otherwise may be at risk of dropping out for financial reasons.

April 10, 2018Six Environmental Studies seniors — Eli Ramthun, Andy Landy, Malia Staab, Tommy Murphy, Leila Jakobson and Ziqi Wang — have launched a public fundraising campaign and master planning process at Richmond’s Middlefork Reservoir.

April 09, 2018When Damián A. Almiron Bonnin ’10 was a young child dreaming of becoming a doctor and helping people, he probably had no idea that he would be leading research that may improve the survival rates of patients with certain brain tumors.

April 09, 2018As winner of the Earlham Prize for Creative Capitalism, Mashinani Farmers Initiative will partner with small-scale farmers in Kenya to address poor farm yields and a shortage of food.

March 15, 2018Earlham Professor of Biology John Iverson has joined hundreds of biologists from around the world in opposing a proposal to radically overhaul the way in which animals and plants are named and defined.

March 09, 2018The EPIC Advantage, the offer to every student of a funded summer internship, project or collaborative research experience, is paying dividends in its first year as the signature component of the Earlham experience.

March 05, 2018Two teams of Earlham College students will compete in this month’s regional finals of the Hult Prize, the world’s largest student competition for the social good. The teams will compete at events in San Francisco and Mexico City in the hopes of reaching the finals and a chance at the grand prize.

March 01, 2018Earlham College is supportive of its students, faculty and staff and their rights to engage in civil protest in the spirit of creating a more peaceful and just world.

February 07, 2018Bean Voyage, a non-profit social enterprise founded by young Earlham College graduates, has won the Grand Prize in the Facebook Social Entrepreneurship Award. This international competition for companies dedicated to the social good co-sponsored by the charity, One Young World.

February 01, 2018The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded funding to Earlham College’s Joseph Moore Museum to begin a long-term preservation project of the Egyptian mummy in its collection.

January 25, 2018Being a man of his word is important to Charles Davis ’18, and that trait helped him to be named Volunteer of the Year by the Boys and Girls Clubs of Wayne County. Davis, who grew up in Chicago’s foster care system, says he knows from experience how kids need someone they can trust and depend on.

January 23, 2018Earlham College’s commitment to making an exceptional liberal arts education affordable for students and their families is recognized in The Princeton Review’s “Colleges That Pay You Back: The 200 Schools That Give You the Best Bang for Your Tuition Buck.”

January 18, 2018Landrum Bolling, the president of Earlham College from 1958-73, died on Wednesday, Jan. 17. He was 104. A world-renowned scholar on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict who tirelessly sought for peace in the Middle East, Bolling transformed Earlham into a national and international institution.

December 22, 2017Continued validation of Earlham’s extraordinary academics, strong graduate outcomes and affordability comes from Kiplinger’s Personal Finance’s "300 Best College Values" for 2018.

December 15, 2017Eleanor Baude-Phillips ’17 embarked on a funded international teaching experience to add new credentials to her growing resume. She is among a select group of recent graduates from across the country to be named a Fulbright Scholar for the 2017-18 academic year.

December 11, 2017Mike Deibel, professor of Chemistry and co-director of Earlham’s Center for Global Health, has been named as the next president-elect of the National Association of Advisors for the Health Profession, Inc.

November 28, 2017Earlhamites discovered the challenge of measuring economic impact as part of a new research endeavor last summer. The team identified up to 53 jobs, $2.8 million in local earnings and $7.9 million in economic development can be associated with the Center’s work.

November 15, 2017The rocky terrain and thorny vegetation where some of the world’s most critically endangered iguanas roam can be daunting to navigate, even for the most seasoned scientific researchers. Just try catching one without scraping your knee, Earlham College’s John Iverson says.

November 15, 2017A team of Earlhamites have delivered on their plan to bring a first-of-its-kind playground to the Richmond area. “Playground with a Purpose,” a play space built for children with special needs, is now open at Clear Creek Park thanks to five Environmental Studies majors in the Class of 2017.

October 31, 2017Olivia Tienin ’20 was one of just 24 undergraduates in the world who was invited to participate in the fifth annual Athens Democracy Forum hosted by journalists from the New York Times.

October 09, 2017Earlham College has been named New Affiliate of the Year by The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars. The College was recognized during the Center’s Fall 2017 Awards Luncheon at The National Press Club.

October 04, 2017Giorgi Mtchedlishvili ’18 and other students from Columbia University’s Space Initiative recently placed first in the NASA Aeronautics Challenge for its design of a futuristic aircraft called Gryphon. (Image courtesy of Nick Barclay)

September 20, 2017Andy Cecere, a retired attorney and celebrated civic leader, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Merit from Earlham President Alan Price on Wednesday, Sept. 20.

September 18, 2017Noah Scherf runs in the shadows. He always has, and he always will. Which is why, no matter the time next to his name on a results sheet, there will forever be more to his story.

September 15, 2017Alan C. Price ’88 will be inaugurated as Earlham College’s 18th president during an outdoor ceremony on Saturday, Sept. 23.

September 13, 2017When Caitlin Corrigan-Orosco ’19 left her Long Island, N.Y., home for Earlham, she was determined to do more than earn a degree. Just two years into her studies, she is gaining real-world experience in international law, diplomacy and refugee studies while putting her knowledge into action.

September 12, 2017Continued recognition for Earlham as one of the nation’s top institutions in higher education comes from U.S. News and World Report and its “Best Colleges 2018” guidebook.

September 12, 2017Since 2014, teams of students from Earlham have traveled to one of the richest archeological locations in the world, Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, to work side by side with scientists excavating the site.

September 05, 2017The faculty at Earlham College are among the nation’s most effective at teaching and bringing their expertise to life, according to The Princeton Review’s Best 382 Colleges.