As two young women from little old Inman, South Carolina, the Mexican state of Oaxaca suited Converse College students Jorden Harvey and Karissa Terry just fine for their January term study-abroad trip. MORE »

When NASA astronauts first walked on the moon in 1969, eight-year-old Pamela Melroy was watching. Very few people who saw the Eagle land have forgotten the sight, but for Pam, the experience was more than awe-inspiring-it changed the course of her life. MORE »

When Professor Denny Partridge, Barnard's Alice B. Pels Professor of Theatre, was awarded a Mellon New Directions Fellowship to create new theater coursework and touring opportunities, she found a way to combine her 30-year background in professional theater with social activism by developing "Theatre in the Community. MORE »