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The Sound of Suspense: What makes the music of horror films so chilling?
Horror film buff and music department chair Neil Lerner takes viewers on a tour of the sounds that signal suspense and startle us into dropping our popcorn. Lerner is editor of the essay collection “Music in the Horror Film: Listening to Fear.”
Not Your 9-to-5: Gig-Hub Primes Students for New World of Work
When the City University of Mogadishu needed a website revamp, it turned to Davidson—so did a researcher with essays to translate from French to English, and a startup travel company looking for innovators to help develop and market its services.
By Kids, for Kids: Local Hero Inspires New Book, New Generation
It started as a heroes of history project.
On Friday afternoons, Kenzie Bell’s students in the Ada Jenkins Center’s after-school program would learn about people who changed history, and then create posters to hang on the classroom wall.
‘Education Transforms’: Alison Hall Mauze ’84 Elected Board Chair
Alison Hall Mauzé, a former JP Morgan vice president who never lost sight of her educator parents’ mission, was elected chair of the Davidson College Board of Trustees Friday.
No Healthy Alternative: Researchers Warn of Vaping Dangers
Know what you’re breathing. That’s a message Karen Bernd and Cindy Hauser hope to convey about hookahs and e-cigarettes. The Davidson College professors don’t scold, but instead arm their students with research.
Imagination and Curiosity: A Q&A With Celebrated Novelist Jennifer Egan
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and New York Times Magazine writer Jennifer Egan visited Davidson College Wednesday to give the annual Joel Conarroe Lecture.
Don’t Cancel Class: Chronicle of Higher Education Spotlights Novel Outreach by Career Development Center
The Chronicle of Higher Education spotlighted a new practice by the Center for Career Development that solves two problems at once: how to make the most of missed class time, and how to make career information easily accessible to students.
