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Upcoming Events

Tanner Lectures on Human Values : David D. Cole (Georgetown University Law Center): "A Defense of Free Speech From Its Progressive Critics"
Nov 12, 2025, 4:30 pm
Location
Friend Center, Lecture Hall 101
Speakers
Tanner Lectures on Human Values : David D. Cole (Georgetown University Law Center): "A Defense of Free Speech From Its Progressive Critics"
Nov 13, 2025, 4:30 pm
Location
Friend Center, Lecture Hall 101
Speakers

Latest News

Class of 2025 Undergraduate Fellows Receive Honors and Awards

This year's graduating Undergraduate Fellows have won an impressive number of awards, honors, and other accolades:

Chemistry:

Anais Mobarak: Graduated with High Honors + awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry Certificate of Undergraduate Excellence + inducted into the Sigma Xi Research Society.

Ben Woodard '25 Awarded Stephen Whelan '68 Senior Thesis Prize
 

Undergraduate Fellow Ben Woodard '25 has been awarded the Stephen Whelan ‘68 Senior Thesis Prize for Excellence in Constitutional Law and Political Thought for his thesis: "Nature National, Slavery Sectional: Southern Judges’ Choice for Freedom in Antebellum Legal and Political Culture.” Ben’s thesis advisor was Peter Wirzbicki, Associate…

Faculty Associate Sondhi Elected Fellow of the Royal Society
 

Professor Shivaji Sondhi, a faculty associate of the James Madison Program, has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society.

Sondhi is the Wykeham Professor at the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford and Professor Emeritus of Physics at…