Located in the parking lot between the J. Scheidegger Center for the Arts and West Clay Street, a temporary investment from ÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø has brought greater capabilities to students and staff dealing with the limitations of the current pandemic. This adaptation, which takes its form as an open-sided tent measuring 40 feet by 80 feet, allows ÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø’s performing arts programs to continue their various activities with minimal disruption.

Rev. Dr. Nichole Torbitzky, assistant professor of religion and ÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø chaplain, received a Racial Equity & Interfaith Cooperation Award as part of Interfaith Youth Core’s (IFYC) We Are Each Other’s Campaign.

The Young Alumni Award recognizes the accomplishments of ÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø alumni who graduated in the last 10 years. Recipients are up-and-coming talents and have demonstrated outstanding promise for contributions to ÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø and the greater community. Recipients have been active with events within the Alumni Association, networking opportunities, fundraising, and student recruitment.

Abigail Manis, a former ÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø undergraduate student and current MFA candidate, has accomplished a great deal in her short time at ÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø. She’s a bright, ambitious, and exceptionally talented young woman with a staggering number of achievements to her name, and her story is a prime example of the real academic success achieved by ÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø students.

The Hellbender Student Film Festival is a new film festival curated at ÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø. Associate Professor Andrew Millians founded the festival earlier this year after the idea of launching a festival had been discussed within the Cinema Arts program for a while. As the Festival Director, Professor Millians wanted to give student filmmakers an opportunity to showcase their work.

For the excellence of its Spring 2019 issue, the Arrow Rock Literary Journal won its first ever REALM Award. Produced by 10 undergraduate students and one faculty advisor working in concert, this previous issue of ÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø’s online publication stands as a beaming example of the university’s tradition of literary excellence.

When renovating the Spanish program last year, the foreign language professors at ÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø wanted to shape the degree in a way that would lead their students to future success. They wanted their students’ language skills to continue to serve them outside the classroom, and they hoped that students would feel capable and confident in their Spanish abilities when they moved beyond ÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø’s halls.

Next semester, ÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø will be offering a diverse selection of courses for the students in its International Relations program, and to helm several of those courses is none other than Professor Dale Walton.

ÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø faculty member Dr. Melissa Ridley Elmes was recently awarded the The Teaching Association for Medieval Studies’s (TEAMS) Teaching Award for Early Career College Educators.

At the beginning of the 2020-2021 school year, twelve faculty members at ÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø were recognized for going above and beyond to help others in response to the COVID-19 crisis.