News & Events

The National Art Gallery in Sofia, Bulgaria, recently hosted a one-person exhibition of the sculpture of Penelope Margaret Mackworth-Praed, better known to the Franklin community as Margaret Glass, professor of sculpture in the department of visual and communication arts.

Esra’a Al Shafei, Franklin 2008 graduate, receives prestigious award for human rights and global advocacy.

Franklin College student volunteers continue their collaboration with Pro Natura Ticino to restore the natural habitat of the Laghetto di Muzzano.

Franklin College Switzerland announces the appointment of Dr. Kris Bulcroft to the newly created position of Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs.

A full day of campus events celebrates the past accomplishments and future possibilities of college life.

Franklin College recently entered into an agreement with the Graduate School of International Policy Studies of the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS) of California.

Franklin Honors students volunteer to teach English to children of the elementary school in Sorengo.

Group sits in on Dalai Lama’s public speech on inner peace for world harmony.

The Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies (CLCS) First Year Seminar donates a water buffalo to a Filipino family.

Students reunite with Pro Natura Ticino for the cleanup of the Laghetto di Muzzano.

The Baobab initiative organizes another successful event to support the Zambian village.

In November of 2006, the Board of Trustees voted unamiously to create the Ursula Gentile Lowerre Outstanding Service Award.

Professor Ajit Singh from Queens' College, Cambridge discusses globalization and industrial revolutions in India and China.

The world premiere concert of “Corale II per Margaret, per quartetto d’archi e orchestra d’archi” composed by Professor Paul Glass will be performed by the Stradivari-Quartette with orchestra and conducted by Christof Escher in Zurich, September 18, 2007.

The collaboration of Franklin College with two Lugano Institutes for the Study of Anthropology announced June 13, 2007.

New Graphic Design Center Dedicated on North Campus

New Library on North Campus

Commemoration Ceremony on May 12, 2007

Franklin students make news while protecting the local environment.

Ten students chosen

Lugano March 29-31,2007

WorldCat is the largest, most accessible library catalog on earth.

Dr. Willem Peppler, Franklin trustee, funds new program.

Comprised of over 137 artifacts, the exhibition represents the largest collection of the site’s materials to be displayed outside of Italy.

Franklin Professors Caroline Weidmer and Sara Steinert Borella of the Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies area became intrigued when a petition brought before Swiss Parliament concluded that child custody regulations discriminated against men.

In 2004, while Dr. Ahron Bregman interviewed a former Israeli Prime Minister for BBC, the Prime Minister got an idea. “The tapes were still rolling, and the Prime Minister stopped, he said, ‘I need you,’” describes Dr. Bregman. “He noticed that I remembered what he did not. I could fill in the blanks. When you do a documentary for BBC, you have to know the story. By the time I spoke with the Prime Minister, I had spoken to all of his aids and watched many hours of relevant footage. He could see I really knew his story,” he explains, “and so he asked me to help him with his book.”

Professor Christopher Matthews is nominated again for the prestigious Pushcart Prize in Poetry.