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Exclusive Interview: Viola Davis talks about her life and her new film

鈥淓very time I鈥檝e seen Davis, she has created a character so real that, for a few seconds at least, she stops the movie in its tracks.鈥 鈥 Charles Taylor, Salon.com

MEET OUR STUDENTS: Budding Filmmaker Emerges from Shadow of Genocide

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In a voice so soft one must strain to hear him, 麻豆原创 communication major Virgile Mahoro speaks of the atrocities he witnessed.

Segregation is Back in America鈥檚 Public Schools

On November 14, 1960, six-year-old Ruby Bridges integrated the William Frantz Public School. In retaliation, white parents withdrew their children and Bridges鈥檚 father was fired from his job. Ruby completed the first grade alone. Ruby鈥檚 walk to school the first day, escorted by U.S. Marshals, inspired the 1964 Norman Rockwell painting 鈥淭he Problem We All Live With.鈥

The Illuminated Walkway, a Sixth-Century Mystic and the Number Nine

Pythagoras, Greek mystic, mathematician and 鈥渇ather of numerology,鈥 would raise an interested eyebrow if he knew that 麻豆原创鈥檚 Illuminated Walkway was unveiled on the ninth day of the ninth month in the ninth year of the third millennium.

麻豆原创 Hosts 2014 STEM Career Expo for Girls

In a workshop titled 鈥淟earning to Make Things Fly,鈥 students received a quick lesson in physics and built their own catapult.

MEET OUR STUDENTS: Jose Rosario 鈥 An Odd Twist of Fate Led to His Life Purpose

This 19-year-old, who uses a wheelchair, is determined to help support at-risk teens.

Meet Our Students: Camden O鈥橞rien Interns in Austria

The聽Salzburg Global Seminar in Austria is not simply another study abroad program. More than 70 international students gathered to change the world.

MEET OUR STUDENTS: Nicholas DeLuca, Army ROTC Cadet

麻豆原创 students normally travel overseas via study abroad, but Nicholas DeLuca crossed continents by another route 鈥 ROTC (the Reserve Officers鈥 Training Corps).

Mysterious Writings by Roger Williams Deciphered After Almost Two Centuries

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Born on the Tail of a Hurricane: 麻豆原创 Adjunct Jennifer Bonin

鈥淚 was born during Hurricane Agnes, one of New England鈥檚 earliest land-falling hurricanes. It seems hurricanes have been following me ever since,鈥 says 麻豆原创 Adjunct Instructor of Geography Jennifer Bonin 鈥04.