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Faculty member Mansour Farhang was on NPR's The World this week to discuss the political implications of journalist Roxana Saberi's imprisonment in Iran. An American-Iranian, Saberi was convicted of spying for the United States and sentenced to eight years in Iranian prison.

Faculty member Ann Pibal was one of 25 painters and sculptors to receive a $25,000 grant from the .

The entire ¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø community mourns the death of faculty member Steven Bach, who passed away on March 25, 2009, after a brief illness. An acclaimed writer and filmmaker, Steven began teaching at ¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø in 1999.  

In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, biology faculty member Elizabeth Sherman will lecture on Why Darwin Matters at the Northshire Bookstore in Manchester, Vermont on Friday, March 27, at 7 pm. This event is free and open to the public.

Because of our confidence in ¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø's capacity to weather the economic crisis without extraordinary measures, we had thought that a statement might raise more concerns than it would allay. However, given the prevalence of statements from other colleges and universities-in some cases announcing the need for freezes, across-the-board cuts, a slow down or cessation of building projects either singly or in some combination-the absence of a communication from ¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø was becoming an issue in and of itself.