In 1702 prominent English physician Dr. Richard Mead published “A Mechanical Account of Poisons in Several Essays,” a book that laid the groundwork for the future of the field of toxicology.
“A...
Underneath the plethora of festivities, Thanksgiving is inherently an occasion of contradictions. It is a day for communities to gather together, punctuated by distractions of food and football. It is...
Barbelin Hall, or Barb as it is affectionately known on Hawk Hill, was the first building on St. Joe’s new-at-the-time City Avenue campus in the late 1920s.
The university was originally located...
The debate is over. The conservationists won, and the damming of Hetch Hetchy will move forward. That was the result of a recent Reacting to the Past game in Jeffrey Hyson’s, Ph.D., assistant professor...
In 1998, former SJU Cheerleading head coach Lisa Moroski ’85 took both the coed and women’s teams to Daytona Beach, Florida, to compete at the National Cheerleading Association (NCA) College Championship...
Sophiatown, South Africa – Behind a white cement wall splashed with a colorful mural, a brick house on Toby Street in the Johannesburg suburb of Sophiatown tells the story of resilience.
The house,...
Durban, South Africa – When Selvan Naidoo takes visitors on a tour of the 1860 Heritage Centre in Durban, which he directs, he recounts a story about searching archives for information about his ancestors.
In...
Flapping its wings on the sidelines for nearly 70 years, the St. Joe’s Hawk has become a staple in college athletics, and now has an updated look.
St. Joe’s debuted the Hawk’s makeover via social...
According to Randall M. Miller, Ph.D., professor emeritus of history, Georgetown was not the first, or only, university to research and acknowledge its historical role in slavery.
“Brown University...
How NATO backed Russia into a corner
In 1984, during a time of heightened tensions between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the Soviet Union in the Cold War, former U.S. President...
St. Joe’s announced on Feb. 10 that the administration signed a letter of intent to evaluate merging with University of the Sciences, adding to a growing list of universities across the U.S. who are...
