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September 20, 2016A team of Earlham College students was awarded $1 million in start-up capital on Tuesday after winning the Hult Prize, the world’s largest student competition for social good. The Earlham project is designed to positively affect 11 countries and millions of people.

September 13, 2016Earlham College once again stands side-by-side with the nation’s top-tier liberal arts colleges in U.S. News and World Report’s 2017 rankings, released today.

September 01, 2016Earlham College is among four leading liberal arts institutions in Indiana and Ohio pioneering a summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) in neuroscience.

August 24, 2016In the 169 years since it opened its doors in 1847, Earlham College has never welcomed a bigger group of new students.

August 19, 2016Earlham’s Center for Science and Technology has received LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.

August 17, 2016A team of students from Earlham College was selected as one of the best three transportation start-ups in Kenya in the Transdev Transport Challenge held this summer.

August 01, 2016A local leader and advocate for the Richmond and Wayne County business communities is joining Earlham College as associate director of reunions.

July 28, 2016The Earlham student body is among the nation’s most diverse, according to a new national ranking by BestColleges.com.

July 28, 2016Professor of Psychology Katharine Milar has received a lifetime achievement award from the American Psychological Association’s (APA) Society for the History of Psychology.

July 19, 2016A new business venture by Earlhamites aims to collaborate with smallholder coffee farmers in Costa Rica to achieve their vision by facilitating greater market accessibility for their products.

July 19, 2016A former exchange student at Earlham College is working to revive Matsuri, which is festival culture in Japan by infusing youth and tourism back into its celebrations.

July 13, 2016Continued national recognition of Earlham College’s capacity to prepare students for the future comes from Forbes’ 2016 Top Colleges Guide.

July 11, 2016Earlham is one of just three national liberal arts colleges ranked in the Top 30 for value in MONEY’s new list of the “Best Colleges for Your Money.”

July 01, 2016Earlham College is one of the best institutions for higher education in the nation, according to the Fiske Guide to Colleges 2017, which was released today. Fiske also features Earlham as one of the top 45 colleges and universities for its International Studies program in its guide for pre-professionals.

June 20, 2016Susan Scarlett’s ’73 battle with Parkinson’s disease will be buoyed this summer by a 65-mile swimming spectacle that could be headed to the record books.

May 25, 2016Sixteen of Wayne County’s top students have enrolled as members of Earlham College’s Class of 2020 in what is one of the largest groups of incoming students from neighboring communities in the College’s history.

May 23, 2016An emerging treatment for schizophrenia pioneered by Dr. Bill McFarlane ’65 offers hope for earlier detection and treatment before psychosis even occurs.

May 12, 2016Earlham College President David Dawson, whose tenure has been marked by significant change and progress, has announced his retirement, effective June 30, 2017.

April 22, 2016A recent Fulbright Award will allow Chisama Ku Penn ’16 to bring together all of her interests. Penn will serve as a Fulbright English Language Teaching Assistant at a college for teachers in Argentina for the upcoming academic year, beginning March 2017.

April 22, 2016Hundreds of psychology students will present research at Earlham College on Saturday, April 23 as part of the Mid-America Undergraduate Psychology Research Conference (MAUPRC).

April 20, 2016Earlham College is joining the more than 1,600 institutions of higher education nationwide that have gone smoke- and tobacco-free.

April 12, 2016Clarice Perryman ’16 will study climate change as a National Science Foundation (NSF) Pre-Doctoral Fellow.

April 11, 2016Do you want to find out when swearing might be considered a good thing? If so, you should attend Earlham College’s 7th Annual Research Conference beginning April 11 through April 13 in Earlham’s Landrum Bolling Center.

April 11, 2016Mishel Mussali ’15 will travel the world to learn what food and land mean to people of different cultural and religious backgrounds and discover how societies and food systems would change if the spiritual roots of food and farming were reclaimed.

March 31, 2016Sonia Kabra’s ’16 “Sisterhood Peace Project” will address gender inequality in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education through a grassroots project in India. Ananda Mishra ’18 and Maniz Shrestha’s ’19 project entitled “Wireless Education and Women’s Empowerment for Rebuilding Bhimtar” was selected for funding by Earham.

March 23, 2016A campus-wide effort to assess how Earlham College is living out its ideals of diversity and inclusion has taken a step forward.

March 22, 2016It’s back! Get ready to join Earlham College on Tuesday, April 12, for the second annual Earlham Day, an annual celebration and reunion for Earlhamites everywhere.

March 21, 2016The latest issue of Christian History magazine, which is devoted entirely to Quakers, uncovers some surprising stories, including one that discusses naked Quaker evangelists.

March 18, 2016A growing commitment to environmental sustainability has earned Earlham College its highest rating from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE).

March 17, 2016The path toward $1 million in start-up funding for a world-changing business venture is now a lot clearer for a team of Earlham College students.