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05/11/23

Students Combine Century-Old Documents and Modern Technology to Research Boston Landscape

Using an online collection of historical urban atlases, the student researchers explored how the urban spaces changed over time.

Boston’s Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway is a bustling 17-acre public park and green space, home to food trucks, fountains and even a carousel.....

02/03/23

English Professor Leila Philip Makes National News with Latest Release, “Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America”

Why are these misunderstood rodents grabbing headlines?

by Maura Sullivan Hill

Holy Cross English professor Leila Philip’s latest book is making national headlines with an unlikely protagonist: beavers.

09/23/21

Student-Generated Urban Studies Minor Debuts at Holy Cross

Maggie Hartnett '23 & faculty advisors team up to create new Urban Studies minor, which will explore themes around how we build our cities, what we do in them and how they shape us

by Maura Sullivan Hill

Maggie Hartnett ’23 knew she enjoyed the architecture classes she took during her first year at Holy Cross, but wasn’t quite sure she wanted to....

06/28/21

Holy Cross Students Continue Experiential Learning in a Remote Semester

Undeterred by the pandemic, nearly 50 students this spring found fulfilling experiential learning opportunities through the College's J.D. Power Center and other programs

by Maura Sullivan Hill

For the past nine months, Rudy Antoncic ’22 worked as an intern at the U.S. Department of State, assessing how teleworking is going for their....

04/01/21

New Student Health Ambassadors Group Provides Peer-to-Peer Resources

Students step up to serve their community through the College's Student Wellness Education Office

by Maura Sullivan Hill

A playlist of pop and dance songs, from Nick Jonas to Britney Spears, reverberated through the speaker on a table outside “The Jo,” as....

03/05/21

SGA Co-Presidents Reflect on a Year Unlike Any Other

Noah Sisk '21 and Victoria Tara '21 adapted priorities to meet changing student needs in the pandemic

by Maura Sullivan Hill

Noah Sisk ’21 and Victoria Tara ’21 campaigned successfully for co-presidents of the Student Government Association (SGA) with the....

12/18/20

Holy Cross Mediation Team Takes Home Top Prize Once Again in International Competition

The team attributes their history of success on the competition circuit to their liberal arts education

by Maura Sullivan Hill

The Holy Cross mediation team took first prize at the major collegiate tournament of the fall 2020 semester, the Brenau Invitational Mediation....

11/08/20

Student STEM Research Aims to Discover More About Breast Cancer Tumors

The students' work with "disease on a chip" models positions them for real-world impact

by Maura Sullivan Hill

When biology major Anh Phan ’21 was a sophomore at the College of the Holy Cross, she was looking for “a way to apply my knowledge to real-life....

10/30/20

Montserrat Student Ambassadors Facilitate Community for First-Years During Remote Semester

Both faculty and first-year students lean on the student ambassadors to improve programming and navigate college culture

by Maura Sullivan Hill

10/13/16

Holy Cross Magazine Publishes Fall 2016 Food-Themed Issue

by Maura Sullivan Hill

The Fall 2016 issue of Holy Cross Magazine — dubbed “The Food Issue”— delves in to what we eat, where it comes from, and who we eat with and....

02/02/16

Community-Based Learning Director Receives Two Awards for Dissertation on Spiritual Impact of Service Learning

by Maura Sullivan Hill

Michelle Sterk Barrett, the director of the Donelan Office of Community-Based Learning at the College of the Holy Cross, has received two awards for....