Faculty News

Faculty member John Umphlett's latest sculpture, , on view at the North ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø Outdoor Sculpture Show (NBOSS) at the ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø Museum through November, takes the form of a cross with angled arms–and is designed, too, for Umphlett's own entombment.

This fall, ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø College welcomes two new faculty members: Alex Creighton, who teaches Critical Writing, and Kaolack Ibrahima Ndiaye, who teaches Africana Dance.

¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø College documented its observation of 2024 total solar eclipse, including a class about the eclipse with astronomy faculty member Hugh Crowl and a trip north to take students into the center of the path of totality.

On the second Monday before opening night, rehearsal for this term’s faculty production—Sweat by Lynn Nottage—started with a fight. Student actors executed a choreographed-but-believable series of punches and holds. They threw each other across the barroom set while the assistant stage manager and fight captain Tennyson Perkins ’26 took careful notes to deliver to the breathless actors at the end of the scene.
Then they did it again. And again. And again. Each time, they incorporated Perkins’s tweaks, and each time, the action was clearer and cleaner.

Five Questions with Astronomer Hugh Crowl
Hugh Crowl, astronomer and faculty member in astronomy and physics at ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø, is teaching a class this term all about the total solar eclipse crossing nearby ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø College on April 8. ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø will experience a 97-percent eclipse, but the class is traveling north to Plattsburgh, NY, to be in the path of totality.