Arts & Sciences

When Hildreth-Mirza Hall debuts next spring as the home of Bucknell's new Humanities Center, its name will honor the mother and daughter who jointly funded the project.

If there's a perfect musical composition to close Bucknell's yearlong coal series, it's Anthracite Fields. Julia Wolfe's Pulitzer-winning, 60-minute oratorio wowed an April 1 audience at the Weis Center for the Performing Arts and seemed custom-tailored for Coal Collections: Local, National and International Stories.

In the 275 years between the first printing of Carl Linnaeus' Systema Naturae, the ur-text of biological taxonomy, and the 2005 publication of the third edition of Mammal Species of the World, the current authoritative text on the classification of mammals, biologists had catalogued some 5,416 members of class Mammalia.

Advanced Lighting Design students enter Harvey Powers Theatre through a door at the back of the stage. Action starts right away as they collaborate to carry out one another's lighting plans, centered around a collection of objects — a speaker, a large box, two cylinders and a mannequin wearing a cape.

Part lion and part human, the sphinx is a mythological figure that was said to guard the Greek city of Thebes by asking travelers to solve a riddle before continuing on their journey.

John "Jack" Wheatcroft '49, poet, author and professor of English at Bucknell from 1952 to 1996, died March 14 at age 91.