Course Spotlight: The Global Economy
Students explore the economic relationship between the developed world and developing countries by partnering with a local direct-trade coffee shop.
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Course Spotlight: Biosphere
Students in this core environmental studies course are learning that if you want to save the world, you have to get your hands dirty.
Course Spotlight: Film as Art
Behind the scenes of the Rollins class designed to instill a wider appreciation of films by allowing students to engage with more than 50 features, shorts, and documentaries during the Florida Film Festival.
Recovering a Hidden History
Students’ award-winning website preserves stories from an African-American newspaper published more than a century ago in Winter Park.
Undergraduate Research
DeLucia Earns Goldwater Scholarship
Alyssa DeLucia ’18 has earned a Goldwater Scholarship, a prestigious award reserved for undergraduate students who intend to pursue careers in the natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering.
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4 Reasons Why a Rollins Intersession Course is a Must-Try Winter Experience
If you only take courses during fall and spring semesters, you’re missing out.
What’s the Big Idea?
Winter Park Magazine’s Randy Noles explores the Master of Liberal Studies program at Rollins College’s Hamilton Holt School.
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Course Spotlight: AfroFantastic: Black Imagination and Agency in the American Experience
A new course for first-year students culminates with an exhibition at Rollins’ Cornell Fine Arts Museum.
Real Clients, Real Rewards
Five students recently earned statewide recognition for helping local clients develop strategic communication plans.
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Course Spotlight: Real World Economics
Students at Rollins are getting a head start on career success while helping local high schoolers do the same.
Service Learning
Restoration With a View
From February 27 – March 5, a group of Rollins students went on an alternative spring break Immersion to Moab, Utah, for a service learning experience of a lifetime.
Rollins Business Department AACSB Accreditation Renewed
The world’s leading association of business schools commended Rollins’ undergraduate business programs for their small class sizes, student-faculty research collaboration, and social entrepreneurship designation.
Rare Research
Inside the Rollins program that partners undergraduates and faculty in real-world research.
A Musical Underworld
Razor blades. Banjos. Lasers. The fastest camera you’ve ever seen. One of the most intriguing labs at Rollins is attracting eyes and ears from around the globe.
The Candy Man
A new class taught by chemistry professor Pedro Bernal uses a tasty treat to explore issues of scientific and cultural importance.
Course Spotlight: Water, Sanitation, and Health in the Dominican Republic
Chemistry professor Pedro Bernal marks 20 years of leading students on trips to the island nation of his birth to provide household water filters.
Course Spotlight: Teaching Philosophy to Kids
Rollins students are developing unconventional ways to help preschoolers learn critical-thinking skills.
Course Spotlight: Sports Analytics
Do statistics scare you to death? A new Rollins course uses athletes as an avenue to understand complicated mathematical concepts.
PHOTOS: Spring Break 2016
From Moab, Utah, to Monterrey, Mexico, Rollins360 shares the best images, stories, and lessons from students’ spring break travels.
Course Spotlight: American Dreams & Nightmares in 20th-Century Literature
First-year students study how culture and context influence our values, fears, and aspirations.