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A Literary Scholar, an Ecologist and an Anthropologist Walk Into a Bar...
– by Mollie Chapman (Green College Society Member)
What is Love?
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Love stories. They are filled with tragedy, joy and all the emotions you can fit in a novel, a three-minute ballad, or a 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter. Love is depicted in many ways, but the question of what love is has never really gone away. In the sci-fi film The Fifth Element, the plot’s central claim is that love is (SPOILER ALERT) the fifth element, and the one thing that can save the world from alien annihilation.
Meet Vincent Gélinas-Lemaire, Assistant Professor, French (French, Hispanic and Italian), Green College Leading Scholar 2019-21
Vincent Gélinas-Lemaire, Assistant Professor (French), French, Hispanic and Italian
"There's Something Classy About That Woodshed!" Pioneer Days at Green College - by Amy Phillips
Assistant Principal Clark Lundeen, Principal Mark Vessey and Amy Phillips at the renovated GC woodshed, aka Amy Phillips Building
A Pipa in the Coach House: It’s Music to Your Ears
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GC Society Members Write In and Look Back: David Duvenaud
David Duvenaud lived at Green College from 2008 to 2010 while doing a Master’s in Computer Science. He then did his PhD at Cambridge University, and is now an Assistant Professor studying machine learning at the University of Toronto.
David writes from Cambridge, England, while visiting his wife’s family there:
Meet Elizabeth Lagresa-González, Assistant Professor, Spanish (French, Hispanic and Italian), Green College Leading Scholar 2019-21
Elizabeth Lagresa-González, Assistant Professor (Spanish), French, Hispanic and Italian
GC Society Members Write In and Look Back: Sigal Samuel
Sigal writes from Washington, DC: