Congratulations To Our Very Own Niki DeWeese Leiva!

Excitement has been high here at the Graduate School Office as we congratulate our Director of Information and Recruitment for winning the 2012 Office of Institutional Diversity’s “Diversity Woman of the Year Award”. Niki Deweese Leiva was given this award last Thursday in honor of her effort to increase diversity at the college and for…

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Sixth Annual Poster Session Declared a Success

This post is brought to you by Dean Amy McCandless and Associate Dean Dave Owens. Many thanks to everyone who participated in the Graduate Student Research Poster Session last Friday! The Sixth Annual Graduate Student Research Poster Session was a resounding success, with 33 projects being presented by 37 graduate students from eight different graduate…

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Well-behaved women rarely make history

Allow me to introduce you to Dean Amy Thompson McCandless.  She’s a chocoholic, loves to wear pink, and jogs in her office to keep warm.  She has taught courses in U.S. women’s and British history, but her research mainly focuses on women’s history. Dean McCandless was recently invited to speak at the Clarendon Historical Society…

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