2018-2019 Reading Series Kicks Off with Poetry
Thursday, September 13, 2018
The 2018 – 2019 Albion College Reading Series will kick off on Wednesday, November 14, 2018, with readings by three of our adjunct professors.
Recent News
Student's FURSCA Project Solves Puzzle for Map of Early Modern London
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Scholars and researchers sometimes say that the process is as important as the discovery—but Mackie Black, '19, who spent the summer untangling a 400-year-old map puzzle, says discovery is pretty darn satisfying.
A&S Professor Scott Melzer Interviewed by The Atlantic for His New Book
Friday, September 07, 2018
Scott Melzer, professor of sociology in Albion College's Anthropology and Sociology Department, has just written a new book, Manhood Impossible, about the changing roles of fathers in today's society. He offered a number of insights on the topic in a wide-ranging online interview with The Atlantic.
Student Collects Albion Church Histories for FURSCA Project
Thursday, September 06, 2018
"Earlier this summer, while chatting with a group of Albion churchgoers, I made a remark about religious diversity and immediately regretted it," writes Tyler Eyster, '20. "I worried that these older people might be offended by the idea that one could embrace people of different faiths. Later, a woman in the group told me, ‘If you think we think we’re the only ones going to heaven, you’re wrong. These people are my family and I love them, but if I had to stay with just them for all eternity, I’d probably walk right out those Pearly Gates.'"
Home at Last: Sacred Zuni Artifact Returns to Where It Belongs
Friday, August 31, 2018
It has been a long, sometimes frustrating, but always enlightening journey for the Zuni Pueblo of New Mexico and Albion College, but an important cultural artifact, and a symbol of the Zuni tradition, is back home where it belongs.
Nicole Wood a Natural Fit as Whitehouse Nature Center's New Director
Tuesday, August 28, 2018
There is something about the natural world that has always spoken to Nicole Wood. So when the opportunity arose to become director of the Whitehouse Nature Center, she jumped at the opportunity. Now she wants the center, tucked away just off campus, to find a new identity.