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Raiders wide receiver Pat Simonds ’10 has signed a rookie free agent contract with the Philadelphia Eagles, giving him a chance to realize his dream to play in the National Football League. The Eagles announced Monday that Simonds was among the 11 undrafted players who they signed to free agent contracts.

Two groups of students studying foreign languages were able to immerse themselves in different cultures recently through the Beyond ���dzԹ��� program. Twelve students spent a day at La Maison amérindienne, a museum and interpretive center east of Montreal, Quebec.

With his second senior thesis nearly complete and a myriad of research and leadership experience on his impressive resume, Conor Tucker’s latest quest for knowledge takes him to Oxford, England. Tucker recently received the Paul J. Schupf ’58 Fellowship for two years of study at the University of Oxford, where he will read for a […]

The future of farming and food will be the topic of a panel discussion on campus that is open to the public and also will be webcast live for those who can’t attend. The discussion will be held 4:30 p.m. Thursday in Love Auditorium, and the live webcast, available to anyone with an Internet connection, […]

���dzԹ��� alumnus H. Guyford Stever, 93, the top science adviser to two presidents who led the oversight committee that redesigned the space shuttle’s booster rockets after the Challenger disaster, has died. News outlets from around the country, including The New York Times and Washington Post, reported on the April 9 death of Stever, who graduated […]

More than 60 students and community members recently gathered for the annual HomeRun 5K and half-marathon, which raised more than $1,300 for Madison County’s Habitat for Humanity chapter. Organized by ���dzԹ���’s own Habitat for Humanity group, which is entirely student-led, the road race was held April 10, an unseasonably cold and windy day. The event […]

If you can see the constellations tonight, you might pick out Orion and his faithful dog on the trail of a vicious bear. But the lights blinking down on you are more than what — or when — they seem. After spending the day with Core 106A students, Father George Coyne spoke to a packed […]

John Chaklader ’03 and Michael Tringali ’04 will be at The Barge Canal Coffee Co. on Thursday to talk about their new enterprise, the Shapna Project. Shapna’s mission is to “eradicate poverty one village at a time at home and abroad” using sustainable practices in the sale of tea and coffee.