Beloit’s faculty are innovating like never before, using the lab as their model and muse.  

The Stateline Community Foundation has awarded $500 to Beloit College’s WISE (What Is Social Excellence) Foundation. The purpose of the grant is to fund initiatives that bridge college students and community members so that they may learn from one another.

Beloit College is encouraging its students to “grow their knowledge” at the upcoming spring Advising Practicum to be held on Wednesday, March 20.

There may be only two months left of the academic year, but Beloit College still has several acclaimed speakers and residency holders scheduled to conduct lectures, give readings and perform in concert. All events are free and open to the public.

Beloit College was under a precautionary lockdown on Thursday, Feb. 21, from 12:30-3:13 p.m. after learning of a situation underway at an apartment building near campus. Shortly after the “all clear” was sounded, Dean of Students Christina Klawitter distributed an email message to all students, faculty, and staff describing the situation and explaining the college’s response.

Over the past decade, Associate English Professor Chris Fink wrote a set of stories about farms and small towns in Wisconsin. The challenge, however, was to find an organizing principle−that is until he thought of the Farmer’s Almanac.

A leading expert on Romani (Gypsy) history, language and human rights will give a lecture at Beloit College on Thursday, Feb. 21 called “Asian or European: Romani Social Identity in the New Europe.” The lecture, which is free and open to the public, takes place at 7:30 p.m. in Moore Lounge of Pearsons Hall.

Matthew Tedesco describes one of his new courses as one that will “boldly go where some of the greatest thinkers in history have gone before.”

This year’s recipient of the Roy Chapman Andrews Society’s Distinguished Explorer Award was a guest on two local radio stations on Tuesday (Jan. 29).

Yale University History Professor Valerie Hansen will give a lecture titled “The Silk Road: A New History,” on Thursday, Feb. 7 at Beloit College. The lecture is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in the Moore Study Lounge, Pearsons Hall.

Earlier this week Cecil Youngblood, the intercultural affairs director at Beloit College, was interviewed on WCLO radio’s “Your Talk Show” about the week-long Martin Luther King Jr. celebrations on campus.