Monthly Archives: August 2011

3-2 Engineering Program Offers Students Distinctive Option

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Catherine Burgess '12

For Mike DeFeo ’12 and Andrew Novicki ’12, summer has been a time to play with lasers. As second-time participants of Holy Cross’ annual Summer Research Program, DeFeo and Novicki spent eight weeks with Timothy Roach, associate professor and chair … Continue reading →

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Schmitt ’13 Participates in Summer Fulbright Program in London

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Catherine Burgess '12

Thomas Schmitt ’13, of Kirkwood, Mo., studied at Roehampton University in London from June 19 to July 19 under a Fulbright Summer Institute scholarship. He is a history major in the premed program. He was among 12 participants from a … Continue reading →

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Holy Cross Political Science Professors Receive Grant for Lecture Series and Enhanced Course Offerings

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Cristal Steuer

The Charles Carroll Program at the College of the Holy Cross has been renewed with a $100,000 grant from the Manhattan Institute’s VERITAS Fund for Higher Education at DonorsTrust and the Jack Miller Center for Teaching America’s Founding Principles and … Continue reading →

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Video: 103 Students Conducted Leading-Edge Research on Campus This Summer

Posted on August 4, 2011 by

A record 103 Holy Cross students spent their summer on campus engaged in leading-edge research across a range of disciplines. Students worked closely with faculty mentors in three separate academic areas: sciences (73 students), the humanities and social sciences (22), … Continue reading →

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Mohorovich ’08 to Pursue Ph.D. in Philosophy as Lilly Graduate Fellow

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Matthew S. Mohorovich ’08, from Astoria, Queens, N.Y., has been selected as one of 16 Lilly Graduate Fellows, as announced by the Lilly Fellows Program. The Lilly Graduate Fellows Program supports, during the course of their graduate education, exceptionally well … Continue reading →

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‘Holy Cross Ranks 27th on Forbes List of America’s Top Colleges’

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Holy Cross in the News

The College of the Holy Cross was ranked 27th on Forbes list of America’s Top Colleges. According to Forbes.com: “Our annual ranking of the 650 best undergraduate institutions focuses on the things that matter the most to students: quality of … Continue reading →

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“On War, Guilt and ‘Thank You for Your Service'”

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Holy Cross in the News

Research by Jerry Lembcke, associate professor of sociology at the College of the Holy Cross, was referenced in a Bloomberg.com article about the treatment of U.S. soldiers and how civilian reaction has shifted over time.  In his book, The Spitting Image: Myth, … Continue reading →

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