The Wright Museum of Art has been awarded a $10,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the assessment of its collection of oil paintings. The Wright Museum exhibits and cares for more than 350 paintings.

Stopher is the founder, president and CEO of Legacy.com, the Internet’s leading online memorialization company. At Beloit College, he was president of Tau Kappa Epsilon (TKE), a tennis player, and a member of the honor society Phi Beta Kappa and Belmark Associates. Read more about Stopher.

Big hugs, smiles, reminiscing, ice cream, water guns, celebrating, reconnecting, waking up in the dorms, parades, picnics, classmates, and so much more - alumni took back the campus June 8-10 for reunion 2012. Check out photos, details, and more here.

From New York City to Naperville, Istanbul to Sweden, Madison to Philadelphia, over 450 Beloiters celebrated Beloit on Spring Day, April 18. A special thank you to the nearly 60 volunteers that came together to make this happen.

No class and enjoying the weather on the turtle mounds…yes, Spring Day, April 18, is right around the corner. You aren’t a student, but so what? We can still get together and celebrate Beloit on Spring Day!  And, find out more about the new interactive Beloiters Unite!

Beloit alumnus Rick Brooks’69 and a friend founded Little Free Libraries. Although the two men met just several years ago, there are now some 200 Little Free Libraries in 34 states and 17 countries.

For 32 years, a portrait of a serene Mary Todd Lincoln hung in the governor’s mansion in Springfield, Ill., signed by Francis Bicknell Carpenter, a celebrated painter who lived at the White House for six months in 1864. Now it turns out that both the portrait and the touching tale accompanying it are false, and Beloit's Barry Bauman'69 uncovered the fraud.