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Faculty member Noah Coburn has been monitoring Afghanistan’s upcoming presidential election with a team of Afghan researchers in Kabul.

�����Ź��� students participating in an international theater festival organized in support of Belarusian freedom of expression staged a series of short plays on March 25 to commemorate Belarusian Freedom Day, an unofficial holiday observed in opposition to the country’s authoritarian regime.

Literature faculty member Doug Bauer has won the  for nonfiction for his latest book, What Happens Next? Matters of Life and Death. Bauer’s poignant collection of essays weaves the stories of his own and his parents’ lives, the meals they ate, the work and rewards and regrets that defined them, and the inevitable betrayal by their bodies as they aged.

The Walker Art Center announces a solo exhibit of �����Ź��� faculty Liz Deschenes’ work.

Sometimes, you just want a guaranteed good read. When you’re far from home, adventuring in a new place—as �����Ź��� students will be over Field Work Term—that may be especially true. Fortunately for them, director of library and information services Oceana Wilson has it covered. A few years ago, she began a tradition with �����Ź��� faculty, of "looking for winter reading recommendations for students—the kind of books you would recommend to a friend.”