Faculty News

Image of cross like sculpture Art That Balances Life and Death

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.

Image of Alex Creighton and Kaolack Ibrahima Ndiaye Welcome, New Faculty!

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

Students watching the eclipse How ¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø Did the Eclipse

¿­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.

The cast of Sweat Breaking a Sweat for Sweat

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.  

Eclipse What to Know ¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø ¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø and the Eclipse

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.