

If a pair of big ideas from three Franklin & Marshall College students is realized, pro bono lawyers will find it easier to represent immigration clients seeking asylum, and young athletes in Guatemala City, Guatemala, will get a top-of-the-line athletic facility in which to train.

As Franklin & Marshall celebrates its 225th anniversary this academic year, the College's oldest a cappella group marks a milestone of its own.

Government majors Katherine McKiernan '13 and Argemira Florez '13 helped Assistant Professor of Government Stephanie McNulty document the levels of democratic participation in 38 developing countries for a book McNulty is writing.


John Lardas Modern, associate professor of religious studies at Franklin & Marshall, studies the relationship between prayer and technology. He is conducting research for a book, tentatively titled "The Religion Machine," about the "profound role" he says technology plays in the practice and study of prayer.

Margaret Hazlett, senior associate dean of student affairs at Bowdoin College, has been named Franklin & Marshall College's new Dean of the College. She will join F&M's senior leadership team in early July 2013.

As the first half of their Franklin & Marshall experience comes to a close, more than 200 members of the Class of 2015 gathered in Mayser Gymnasium April 11 to mark a significant academic milestone: the declaration of their majors.

Evan Anway '13 and Professor of Geosciences Dorothy Merritts collaborate on a project that could inform future efforts to restore the valley bottom landscape of Lancaster County's Little Conestoga Creek.

Equipped with rakes, shovels, paint brushes and garbage bags, almost 700 Franklin & Marshall College students rolled through Lancaster April 7 and left a cleaner, spiffier city in their wake.