High school students converged on CMC this spring to debate an issue of central diplomatic and military importance for the world. What was it? The Trojan War. The College’s Model United Nations team, known as McKennaMUN…

Carla Garapedian It’s not every day that one gets to sit down and talk with a woman who has pretended to be a nurse in an Afghani hospital to get the story of a rape victim; who has interviewed criminals imprisoned for…

Greg Hinckley, ’68, COO and President of Mentor Graphics, has been inaugurated as an honorary professor of electrical and electronic engineering at the University of Nottingham at Ningbo, China (UNNC). Hinckley has work…

Henrik Cronqvist CMC Associate Professor of Financial Economics, McMahon Family Chair in Corporate Finance, and George R. Roberts Fellow Henrik Cronqvist has written a scholarly paper (“CEO Contract Design: How Do Stron…

Former four-star general, John P. Abizaid, spoke to a group at the Athenaeum on April 22 about his experiences as a leader, also sharing his concerns on current hot spots in the world. Here is a summary of some key poin…

Assistant professor of mathematical sciences and computer science Deanna Needell first saw the image of Lena in a computer science class in college. The photo, cropped from a Playboy magazine, shows a young female model…

Asuman Aksoy Asuman Aksoy, the Crown Professor of Mathematics and George R. Roberts Fellow, has been awarded a grant from the Mathematical Association of America's Tensor-SUMMA Program. The purpose of this program is to…

An April 26 Wall Street Journal story on costs associated with terrorism––with a particular focus on the bombings in Boston–– quoted CMC’s Brock Blomberg, the Peter K. Barker ’70 Professor of Economics, George R. Robert…

Chris Temple of Living on One, in a scene from the documentary, "Living on One Dollar." “Filmmakers Zach Ingrasci, Chris Temple Buck Trends with ‘One Dollar.’” That was Variety’s headline on April 26, which talks about…

Dr. Nannerl Keohane Former Duke University and Wellesley College president Nannerl Keohane discussed leadership as it relates to social movements, political mobilization and the roles of women, to an audience at the Ath…