Beloit College’s Advising Practicum was once again featured in a major news outlet. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel wrote about the program, now in its second year, in “Liberal arts colleges emphasizing practical experience” published on Nov. 22.

The lead scientist for the Mars Curiosity expedition will visit Beloit early next year to receive the Roy Chapman Andrews Society’s Distinguished Explorer Award.

In a brief address broadcast live and online to Beloiters across the country and world tonight, Beloit College President Scott Bierman shared a list of recent accomplishments and accolades but saved most of his time to introduce and explain the college’s new campaign strategy and slogan—Fast Forward: The Campaigns for Beloiters.

Beloit College recently held its third Advising Practicum, and its successes were mentioned this week in an article on NBCNews.com.

This month, Beloit College’s Wright Museum of Art will debut Looking Ahead: Portraits from the Mott-Warsh Collection. This traveling exhibition of collected portraiture created by artists of African descent, is being made possible by the new George S. Parker Exhibition Fund, which will continue to bring noteworthy traveling exhibitions to the Wright Museum of Art on a biennial basis.

Director John Kaufmann’s new play is a ghost story, a psychological thriller, and even kind of funny.

More than a thousand community members from all over the area enjoyed a night of learning and fun last Friday (Nov. 2) evening at the first-ever Family Discovery Night held at the Beloit College Center for the Sciences. Hosted by Beloit College and Kerry Ingredients & Flavours, the event was made possible in part by a $21,000 grant from Kerry.

The annual Ivan M. and Janice S. Stone Memorial lecture scheduled for Wednesday (Nov 14) has been cancelle

Ahead of Tuesday's presidential election, Political Science Professor Georgia Duerst-Lahti discusses which presidential candidate won the debates, how Hurricane Sandy is impacting the elections, and more in the video below.

Associate English Professor Francesca Abbate’s recent book of poetry is a retelling of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde but set in south-central Wisconsin. Troy, Unincorporated was released by The University of Chicago Press’ Phoenix Poets series in 2012.

Ron Nief and Tom McBride, coauthors of The Mindset Lists of American History: From Typewriters to Text Messages, What Ten Generations of Americans Think is Normal, will share their ideas with diverse audiences around the country in the coming months.  From keynote talks at conferences to dinners and book signings, their fall speaking tour will take them from Chicago to Dallas and Washington.

As part of the fifth annual Miller Upton Forum, 2012 Upton Scholar Timur Kuran will give the June and Edgar Martin Memorial lecture on “Religious Obstacles to Democratization in the Middle East: Past and Present.” The lecture takes place on Friday, Oct. 26 at 7 p.m. in the atrium of the Center for the Sciences.