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A Singing Telegram of Gratitude
Merry Christmas from Principia!
College Land Management: Of Prairie Grass and Pecan Trees

An often-overlooked advantage of Principia College is the vastness of the campus. At 2,600 acres, the blufftop property is the 25th largest college campus in the United States, according to CollegeExpress.com. It’s right up there with places like the University of New Hampshire and Purdue University. While Principia students and ...

Mediation Team Places First—Three Times

Principia College’s mediation team competed in the first-ever virtual International Intercollegiate Mediation Championship Tournament this fall, demonstrating its versatility and adaptability by winning three out of the four categories of competition: Top Mediator, Champion Team Mediation, and Champion Team Advocacy. In the fourth category, Top Advocate/Client, the team took the ...

Principia’s CROP Hunger Walk Team a Leader in Fundraising

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 ...

Tara Adhikari Named Lincoln Academy Student Laureate

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 ...

College Students’ Tutoring Work Is a Win-Win

When the College shifted to the Yellow Phase of its COVID-19 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 ...

College Recognized for COVID-19 Communication

“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 ...

Meet the College’s New Full-Time Faculty Members

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 ...

Reaping Rewards of Students’ Research for More Than a Decade

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 ...

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