Urban archaeologist and Assistant Professor of Anthropology Rebecca Graff led students on an urban dig at a home in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood searching for evidence of Underground Railroad activity.

The Dean’s List celebrates students at the College who have received distinguished academic awards throughout the full school year. In order to have made the Dean’s List, students must achieve and maintain a grade point average of at least 3.60 for two consecutive semesters.

With the publication of their paper “Algal Bloom Expansion Increases Cyanotoxin Risk in Food” in the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, rising juniors Niam Abeysiriwardena ’20 and Sam Gascoigne ’20 became published first-authors and co-authors, respectively.

Assistant Professor of Anthropology Rebecca Graff is leading student archaeological excavations at a Chicago home rumored to have been a stop on the Underground Railroad. View the project firsthand 10 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 31, during a Media Day/Open House.

Faculty and staff with ties to Digital Chicago and the Chicago Fellows program are having a busy summer.

Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Brian McCammack’s book was honored as the “best first book in American history” and he contributed to a Time article, “The 25 Moments From American History That Matter Right Now.”

Students gathered at the Intercultural House to watch the World Cup semifinal match between Croatia and England

Balaram took first place in undergraduate poster competition at the 31st Annual Meeting of the Great Lakes Chapter of the American Society of Pharmaceutical and Experimental Therapeutics (GLC-ASPET)  held at the Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine in Chicago on June 22, 2018.

Lake Forest College is pleased to recognize fiction writer JD Scott as the tenth winner of the Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writers Residency Prize, awarded annually.

Ganev recently presented his neuroscience research at a national conference in San Diego, California.