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  • Elizabethtown College hosts International Women’s Day celebration

    Elizabethtown College hosts International Women’s Day celebration

    Elizabethtown College’s Office of Campus Recreation and Well-Being (RecWell), The Office of Student Activities (OSA) and International Student Services collaborated to bring students an International Women’s Day (IWD) celebration. The festivities took place on Feb. 26 prior to students’ spring break because the day is typically celebrated on March 6. This year’s theme for IWD

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  • The Science of Emotions: How Springtime Impacts Our Mood

    The Science of Emotions: How Springtime Impacts Our Mood

    As the days grow longer and the crisp winter air gives way to the warmth of spring, many people notice a shift in their emotions. A sense of renewal takes hold, bringing increased energy, optimism and motivation. This isn’t just a coincidence—our emotions are deeply connected to biological rhythms, brain chemistry and environmental factors like

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  • Today’s Tech: Microsoft retires Skype

    Today’s Tech: Microsoft retires Skype

    The digital world is saying goodbye to one of its pioneers. Microsoft’s retirement of Skype marks the end of an era for online communications. Once the dominant platform for video and voice calls, Skype completely revolutionized how people connected across the globe. Skype enabled faraway communication to become a reality, bringing families, friends and companies

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  •  Business Buzz: EU free trade deal with India could come this year

     Business Buzz: EU free trade deal with India could come this year

    The European Commission announced that the European Union (EU) and India were pushing to sign a free trade agreement during 2025. India and the EU want to reach an agreement regarding this deal for potential foreign direct investment in a wide range of areas, such as semiconductors, artificial intelligence (AI) and cleantech. Talks were restarted

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  • Science department to offer Medical Laboratory Science major

    Science department to offer Medical Laboratory Science major

    Beginning the fall semester of 2025, the science department at Elizabethtown College will offer a medical laboratory science major. This announcement comes five years after the 2019-2022 addition of the chemistry laboratory science major at the college. Dr. Jeffrey Rood and Dr. Kristi Kneas, professors and the chairs of the chemistry and biochemistry department who

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  • Global Perspective: Thailand Cutting back on Student Expression Restrictions

    Global Perspective: Thailand Cutting back on Student Expression Restrictions

    Thailand has a history of being a more conservative society. This includes laws and expectations ranging from how basic formality is supposed to be conducted to specifics like dress and hairstyles.   In the 1970s the nation of Thailand was going through rocky times as their government went through multiple identity changes. Shifting from a military

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  • BIPOC Student History Talk Presented in Library

    BIPOC Student History Talk Presented in Library

    On Feb. 26, at  Elizabethtown College’s  High Library held a talk titled “Research and Recording BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) Student History at Elizabethtown College.” The talk featured junior history and political science major and Young Center’s Ziegler Fellow Jordyn Dutko and sophomore legal studies major and student archivist Kalen Tendo, who had

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  • PA Politics: PA to Hire Federal Workers Fired by Trump

    PA Politics: PA to Hire Federal Workers Fired by Trump

    Pennsylvania’s Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro signed an executive order on Wednesday, March 5 to streamline the process for Pennsylvania’s government agencies to hire recently-fired federal employees amid the Trump Administration’s purge of the federal labor force.  Signed during an appearance at the second annual Commonwealth Job Fair in Harrisburg, Executive Order 2025-01 is designed “to

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  • College Announces Upcoming Changes, including From Renovations to Tuition Hikes

    College Announces Upcoming Changes, including From Renovations to Tuition Hikes

    Spring at Elizabethtown College means the return of classes, outdoor study sessions and all the joys that warm weather brings. It also carries a packed calendar full of deadlines and upcoming events, not to mention the announcement of changes for next academic year.  This year;s announcement came in the form of an email titled “A

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