College News

The annual St. Louis CROP Hunger Walk returned Sunday, October 25, albeit virtually. And the Principia College community proved to be a leading contributor to the event’s efforts to raise funds to alleviate hunger locally, nationally, and globally. The CROP project was organized in 1947 when farmers were asked to ...

Each fall, Principia College nominates one senior for the prestigious Abraham Lincoln Civic Engagement Award based on leadership and service in the pursuit of the betterment of humanity and overall excellence in curricular and extracurricular activities. Students selected from colleges and universities across Illinois become Student Laureates of the Lincoln ...

When the College shifted to the Yellow Phase of its COVID protocols, it was a green light for eight Principia students to venture off campus to tutor students at the Boys & Girls Club of Alton. The partnership between the College’s Educational Studies Department and the Boys & Girls Club ...

“One of the things I love about this community is that when we’re called to action, we act,” says College Academic Dean Meggan Madden. Last spring proved the truth of that statement.

When the pandemic abruptly shifted students, faculty, and staff to a remote learning environment, questions outnumbered ...

Five professors, spanning the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and arts, joined the College faculty this fall. Three are new to Principia; two moved from visiting positions to full-time faculty status. In addition, the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Marshall Brooks Library each welcomed a new faculty member. Below ...

From 2000 through 2007, while teaching in the Physics Department at Principia College, Dr. Benjamin Brown (C’71) worked with physics majors to develop a positron beam and trap. (Positrons are antimatter electrons.) Support for the $200,000 project came from the Principia Fund for Excellence and the Peninsula Foundation, funded by ...

With almost a month of classes under their belts, students and faculty at the School and College have settled into the new routines in place for in-person instruction—sanitizing hands, wearing masks, maintaining social distance, and so on. While these protocols alter the learning experience, they do not define it. Students ...

Despite pandemic-related restrictions limiting those allowed on campus this summer, progress continued on land research projects that have been underway for several years.

Dr. Andrew Martin, an archaeologist and associate professor in the Art and Art History Department, has worked with a team of students since 2017 to excavate ...

See all the progess on the renovation and construction of the School of Government.

After serving as interim College president for eight months, Professor John W. Williams, JD, was appointed as president of Principia College in July.

A longtime member of the Political Science Department, Williams was the inaugural recipient of the Principia College Horace Edwin Harper Jr. and Evelyn Wright Harper Award ...