Neil Davis Friluftsliv PBL
Neil Davis Memorial PBL - getting ready to go The intention of the inaugural Neil Davis Memorial PBL was to get students away from ski lifts, giving opportunity and attention to appreciating outdoor experiences in a wintery wilderness context. So it seemed somehow fitting that in the weeks preceding the 'Project-based learning' week, we had [...]
Red Cross First Aid PBL
The Red Cross First Aid PBL (project-based learning) is a 12-hour course delivered over three days, organised by the Red Cross First Aid team at the College. The team consists of twenty-three second-years who will have been receiving weekly training for many months. Each year, all the first years participate in the First Aid PBL. Wednesday [...]
Maja Horvath (’15 -’17)
"I was always very interested in music, I don’t know where it came from. I was never forced into it. Before I even had an actual violin I would practice with two pens. My parents never played instruments but growing up we didn’t have a television, so there was always music in my house. I [...]
Welcoming Hans Von Sponeck
It has been a real privilege to welcome Hans Von Sponeck to our campus. Hans worked for the United Nations for more than thirty years and in 1998 was appointed UN Assistant Secretary General. During his service, he worked for the UN Development programme in Ghana, Turkey, Botswana, Pakistan and India. Since his resignation from [...]
Holocaust Memorial Day
Today is Holocaust Memorial Day (27th January). ‘Don’t stand by’ is the theme for Holocaust Memorial Day 2016. The Holocaust and subsequent genocides (for example, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, Darfur) took place because the local populations allowed persecution to take root. Whilst some actively supported or facilitated state policies of persecution, the vast majority stood by silently – at [...]
Elaheh Granov (’00 -’02)
My two years at UWCRCN has deeply affected the way I am and what I do today. Going to a university was not the obvious choice for me when I grew up as a refugee from Iran in a socially disadvantaged neighborhood. But after UWCRCN I chose to study Social Sciences, driven by a curiosity [...]