Archive for February, 2005

Vera Rubin, a world-reknowned physicist credited as a co-discoverer of dark matter, spoke on the matter Friday in a lecture entitled "A brief history of dark matter."
Rubin opened the lecture [...]

This is a weekend where most of us will be holed up in our rooms or in a library. But if you're lucky enough to have some spare time (or [...]

Tonight, a group of student musicians will perform a concert of classical music at 8:00 in Lang Concert Hall as a benefit for victims of the late December tsunami in [...]

Robert Paxton, emeritus professor of History at Columbia University, discussed the "protean quality of fascism" last night at the annual Paul Beik Lecture. Paxton argued for an understanding of fascism [...]

Professor Carolyn Gordon, winner of the 1990 Centennial Research Scholarship, visited Swat this week from Dartmouth College to present the 2005 Arnold Dresden Lectures in mathematics. Professor Gordon, who specializes [...]

The two students in the Advanced Directing Workshop presented two comic one act plays this weekend in the Frear Ensemble Theater. Al Bradbury directed "The After-Dinner Joke," by Caryl Churchill, [...]

This year's Large Scale Event was a rousing success, as rock band They Might Be Giants performed many of their most popular songs to a packed crowd at the Pearson-Hall [...]

Opera fans have another weekend to check out the Philadelphia Opera Company's production of Aida, or more accurately to check out soprano Angela Brown's dazzling performance in the title role. [...]

Eliza Blair '07 was recently named First Runner-Up in the Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing (previously known as the Isaac Asimov Award) for [...]

Earthlust will attempt to raise about $3350 by the end of the semester to fund additional wind power for the college. Swarthmore currently uses 500 megawatt hours of wind power [...]