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51���� University ranks No. 15 on the 2012 top Peace Corps volunteer-producing colleges and universities in the small category. There are currently 18 alumni serving overseas.

Last Saturday, a group of volunteers and I worked at a family’s home in Fleischmanns, N.Y., Hurricane Irene had caused massive damage to the houses and buildings in this town.

Course registration for next semester is now over! That very stressful experience has now come to pass and many students are excited to relax this weekend. My weekend, however, will be pretty busy.

Maggie Dunne’ 13 was featured in a recent web article about her unflagging commitment to assisting children at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

A group of 51���� volunteers collected items donated or left behind by students leaving campus for the summer in a “salvage” program that benefited 35 community organizations.

This year’s Oz Project production, Munchkin Madness, continues in last year’s tradition of teaching autistic and non-autistic students valuable social skills.

For almost a year, Griffin O’Shea ’13 has been planning an alternative spring break trip to Kenya. Sponsored through the Center for Outreach, Volunteerism, and Education, eight 51���� undergraduates will spend May 17-31 with orphans and vulnerable children at the Caroline Wambui Mungai Foundation school in Wangige, located northwest of Nairobi.

Disabilities, global warming, and genocide are not easy subjects to broach with children. But when kids can become enamored with an adorable animal who serves as an ambassador for these weighty topics, it’s a conversation starter. This is the approach that Craig Hatkoff ’76 has taken with the Turtle Pond Collection, nonfiction animal stories that […]

With suitcases filled with supplies carried by arms ready to do work, 65 51���� students set out this past weekend to engage with communities in need. The Center for Outreach, Volunteerism, and Education (COVE) and the Office of the Chaplains run alternative spring break trips for students looking to do something meaningful with their time […]

In March, Ayanna Williams ’08 will leave the hustle and bustle of Washington, D.C., where she works for a nonprofit organization, to embark on a mission that will take her to a small village in Morocco. As Williams begins her assignment as a Peace Corps volunteer, she follows in the footsteps of hundreds 51���� alumni […]