Dr. Palmer’s Update: March 2012

If you’ve ever seen a musical or theatrical performance at Principia, you know we set a high standard for the arts here. Just last weekend, the Upper School jazz band took ...

SPEAK for Women Event a Success

The fourth annual SPEAK event (Students of Principia for Education, Awareness, and Kindness) was presented to the Principia community on Feb. 18. Event coordinator and junior Lila Morse (pictured) says that ...

Motivational Speaker Visits Campus

When Greg White asked his high school basketball coach how to earn a college scholarship, he was told to practice. Illustrating just how much he’d done that, this former UCLA ...

Koch Foundation Helps Middle Schoolers Honor U.S. Founding Principles

Interesting middle grade students in history, recent or distant, is not the easiest task an educator faces. So, it has been gratifying to Middle School teacher Barb Maurer that the ...

Students Meet Russian Politics Expert

On Tuesday, Feb. 21, four students from political science professor John Williams's class on Russian politics attended an invitation-only breakfast and talk at Washington University’s Murray Weidenbaum Center on the ...

Cross-Country Scholars

Principia College athletes take both parts of the term student-athlete seriously. As proof of that, in one sport alone—cross country—three individuals and both teams won academic recognition for their performance ...

Multifaceted Author Gives Back at Principia

It would make introductions so much easier if one could just categorize Angela Sage Larsen (C'92) neatly. Children’s book author. Or artist. Actor, perhaps? How about author-with-a-conscience? But then there’s ...

January at the School

Individual and Team Victories

Last Friday night, the varsity girls’ basketball team beat Westminster by a comfortable margin (63–44), but that victory wasn’t all the team celebrated that night. On her first basket of ...

College Actors Compete in the ACTF Finals

Winter break gave senior Jay Amuka time to investigate graduate film schools in New York City. His trip was cut short, though, as he rushed back to campus to rehearse ...