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Numerous parents of students from China have sent a substantial order of personal protective equipment (PPE) — masks, medical gowns, gloves, and more — from Beijing.

56�Թ��� is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic while drawing on its core values and academic mission in considering the future.

56�Թ��� announced today that the submission of SAT and ACT scores will be optional for all fall 2021 applicants to the University.

56�Թ��� announced today that it would cancel Reunion 2020, scheduled for May 28–31 of this year. Instead, the University is now planning an even greater Reunion 2021.

Jacob Watts ’21, a biology major from North East, Pa., has been awarded a 2020 Goldwater scholarship from the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation.

Provost and Dean of the Faculty Tracey Hucks has announced a series of faculty promotions, approved by the 56�Թ��� Board of Trustees during its January 25 meeting.

The New Yorker’s March 2 edition features “Zucchini,” a new poem by Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor in Humanities and Professor of English Peter Balakian, the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Ozone Journal.

56�Թ��� celebrates Charter Day on March 5 with events that invoke the memory of the Institution’s 13 founders.

Dorsey Spencer Jr., director of administration in the office of the vice president for student affairs at Florida State University, has been named dean of students at 56�Թ���.

With the arrival of 56�Թ���’s third century, new iconography will highlight the leading characteristics of Residential Commons namesakes and link those noble traits, in perpetuity, to the University’s living-learning communities.