Deep in the ice at the heart of Antarctica, the biggest and strangest detector in the world waits for mysterious messengers from the cosmos. Scientists are using tiny and elusive particles called neutrinos to explore the insides of stars and galaxies. These ghostly neutrinos give us an exclusive look into exploding stars and black holes. […]

In 1998, Saint John's Abbey and University commissioned renowned calligrapher Donald Jackson to produce a hand-written, hand-illuminated Bible. The Saint John's Bible is the first completely handwritten and illuminated Bible commissioned by a Benedictine abbey since the 1450s. Berea College is fortunate to own one of only 299 Heritage Edition full-size fine art reproduction sets […]

On a weekly basis during the academic year, the Campus Christian Center leads a worship service on Tuesday’s at noon. The Center plans and offers diverse services of Christian worship […]

North Carolina State University professor of history, Xiaolin Duan, will share her research on how ebbs and flows in Chinese silk production impacted global trade and politics between the 16th and 18th centuries.

Want to learn more about other religions and explore your own spirituality?Do you believe interfaith dialogue is crucial to building stronger communities?We meet each Thursday at noon in the Fireside […]

Join us for our next Dinner on the Grounds with Mackenzie New Walker, a southern West Virginian who who grew up as the daughter, granddaughter, and great-granddaughter of union coal miners, and is a proud associate member of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA). She is currently the Executive Director for the West Virginia […]

Roxane Gay Writer Roxane Gay joins bell hooks center founder and director M. Shadee Malaklou for a conversation about hooks' fearless feminism. They think and dream with hooks about how to write toward a better world, addressing topics ranging from trauma to love, to how we dismantle the intersecting structures of oppression that hooks names […]

Learn how you can receive course credit while gaining career-related experience - and how to obtain the funding to make it possible! This session is required for all Summer 2023 interns. Be sure to review our Internship Info Sessions & Resources Poster + the Internship Steps Checklist. ____________________________________________________________________ **If you are not able to attend […]

Former Berea College professor bell hooks (Gloria Jean Watkins, Ph.D., 1952-2021) is no longer with us. Fortunately, many of her writings and recordings are preserved in the Berea College Special Collections and Archives. Throughout Women’s History Month 2023, Hutchins Library invites you to spend an hour (or more!) each week reading what bell hooks wrote. […]

How did life on Earth begin? Take a high-speed tour of key events since the Big Bang that set the stage for life. Starting with the first stars and ending with the tremendous biological diversity on Earth today, Life: A Cosmic Story shows how the human pedigree is actually 13.7 billion years in the making. There will […]