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Davidson is a highly selective independent liberal arts college for 1,920 students located 20 minutes north of Charlotte in Davidson, N.C. Since its establishment in 1837 by Presbyterians, the college has graduated 23 Rhodes Scholars and is consistently regarded as one of the top liberal arts colleges in the country. Through The Davidson Trust, the college became the first liberal arts institution in the nation to replace loans with grants in all financial aid packages, giving all students the opportunity to graduate debt-free. Davidson competes in NCAA athletics at the Division I level, and a longstanding Honor Code is central to student life at the college.
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The Davidson Trust
Through this historic initiative, the college has increased the money it provides for grants in financial aid packages and eliminated mandatory loans, allowing all students to graduate debt-free. |
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Davidson Physics Program Shines on Earth and Far Above!
Physics at Davidson has a long, proud history, including the founding of the Sigma Pi Sigma national honor society here in 1922 and creation of the first X-ray in North America. Today’s Davidsonians continue to distinguish themselves. |
Sam Castle '14 Gazes for Shooting Stars for NASA During Fall Internship
Sam Castle '14 has spent the fall semester studying those familiar flashes of light that streak across the night sky-meteors! Castle has been conducting research on "shooting stars," as they are colloquially known, since late August through an internship with NASA at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. |
"Alpha" Physicists Bring Academic Honors Full Circle at 2012 Quadrennial Physics Congress
Four Davidson physics majors had a lot to live up to at the recent 2012 Quadrennial Physics Congress. The congress was co-sponsored by the physics honor society Sigma Pi Sigma, which was founded at Davidson in 1922. |
Honor Code Gives Students Options at Exam Time
At most colleges, students in a particular class take their exam in the same room, at the same time, with the instructor present class takes the exam in the same room The Honor Code allows each student to determine when to take that exam, and where in Chambers Building to do so. |
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