The Department honored 4 undergraduate students at our Spring Banquet who won awards for their research. Anastasia Manvelyan won the Cornerstone Award for a paper entitled “ ‘Well! Burn me, or hang me, I will stand in the truth of Christ!’: Defiance in the Salem Witch Trials.” Manvelyan’s essay brought to life a group of...

Dead bodies hadn’t been all that common at Boy Scout Camp Matulia. Nestled in the rugged, forested, relentlessly hilly southwestern corner of Missouri, it was an accident waiting to happen. Consider the odds. Four hundred and fifty young teenagers arriving every other Monday for a twelve-night camping session. Of course, mishaps occurred. The death of...