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Student Researcher Asks: How Can Something So Tiny Be So Devastating?

"When we do labs in classes, you usually get what you're expecting. You usually get results. But with this oomycete study, there were so many trials where things would just not work, and we wouldn't know why. So you have to try it again, and figure out many different ways you can approach research."

—Anna Ming Bauer, whose undergraduate research focuses on how some forms of plant life evolve to become more pathogenic than others

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Story 4/23/2018

Professor Aronowicz: Always Sought Connection With Students...

For Annette Aronowicz, retiring this year as the Robert F. and Patricia G. Ross Weis Professor of Judaic Studies, her instruction and research at Franklin & Marshall College explored religious...

Story 4/19/2018

Common Hour Speaker Answers Profound Question: Why Do We...

To the students who attended F&M's April 19 Common Hour and confirmed with a raised hand that they were under 10 years old when terrorists attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, author and...

Story 4/13/2018

Writing the Self: English Professor Reads from New Memoir

On one of the first warm nights of spring, Associate Professor of English Sands Hall delivered a joyful reading at Franklin & Marshall College from her recently released memoir, “Flunk. Start.:...

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Trustee and Diplomat Athletic Club co-founder Brooks gives $1M for Shadek Stadium

As a student at Franklin & Marshall College, Bob Brooks '66, P'98 was a member of the men's varsity tennis team, and as a successful businessman and investor, he later acquired partial ownership interests in professional baseball and hockey teams, Pittsburgh's Pirates and Penguins. But with their latest gift to his alma mater, Bob and his wife,...

The Steinman Foundation Gift Supports F&M Works in Lancaster

The success of a civic engagement program that provides internships for Franklin & Marshall students and benefits the broader Lancaster community has inspired the Steinman Foundation to strengthen its support for the initiative over the long term. The foundation recently awarded the College $500,000 to deepen the impact of F&M Works, a program of...

Benefactor Art Clark Says ‘Thank You’ with $4.1 Million Gift to F&M for Financial Aid

Through generous philanthropy over more than a decade, Clark has created powerful, endowed financial-aid resources at the College, assuring great opportunity for future F&M students and helping advance a critical institutional priority. His latest gift brings his total lifetime giving to F&M to $6.1 million and makes him the second-largest...