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The Diplomat

November 4, 2010

Franklin & Marshall’s weekly online newsletter


Staff Profile: Gina Brown

As academic coordinator of several foreign-language departments, Gina Brown is no stranger to improvising on the job.  more >

Celebrating Excellence in the Sciences

The College unveils a website highlighting its tradition of high-quality teaching and undergraduate research in the sciences.  more >

Zhang Drives Toward Career in Neuroscience

Xiaoyu Zhang ’11 explores human cognition and perception with Professor D. Alfred Owens.  more >

Youth Program Flying High in Year One

Franklin & Marshall students mentor local high-school students in Project LAUNCH, a new initiative of the Ware Institute for Civic Engagement.  more >

Featured Cultural Events


What the %@&! Happened to Comics?

A lecture with Art Spiegelman

Nov. 10
Art Spiegelman has brought comic books out of the toy closet and onto the literature shelves.  more >

A Reading & Conversation with Jack Anderson

Nov. 8
Jack Anderson is the author of 10 books of poetry and seven collections of dance history and criticism.  more >

Exposing Humanity: A Lecture by David Turnley

Nov. 9
David C. Turnley is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer and filmmaker.  more >

The Big Apple

F&M Symphonic Wind Ensemble

Nov. 12
Join the Symphonic Wind Ensemble for an evening of music in the Barshinger Center.  more >