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Famed author and University of Chicago alumna Susan Sontag, AB’51, once wrote: “I write—and talk—in order to find out what I think.” A new course in the College is allowing first-years to put that ...

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I n early August 2025, Governor Glenn Youngkin awarded $40 million in 13 Virginia Business Ready Sites Program development grants across the Commonwealth. Administered by the Virginia Economic ...

Christopher Merrill, longtime director of the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program (IWP), is marking 25 years as director and has announced he will step down at the end of the year.

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