A "food gap" in the United States leaves some 36 million people "insecure" about where their next meal is coming from, without access to healthy food, and at increased risk for obesity and diabetes, author and activist Mark Winne said Sept. 30 at Gettysburg College.

Winne, former executive director of the Hartford Food System in Connecticut and the author of...

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There is a direct link between today's "culture wars" and the famed Lincoln-Douglas debates of 150 years ago, a Gettysburg College professor argued in an op-ed in the Christian Science Monitor.

Tensions surrounding morality and politics reflect "a battle between two basic concepts of deomocracy itself: between democracy as a process and democracy as purpose," w...

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Gettysburg students benefit from close collaboration with professors, often resulting in joint publications in scientific journals. Students also enjoy hands-on use of advanced equipment that most institutions reserve for graduate students. Facilities include a proton accelerator, electron microscopes, a DNA sequencing instrument, a planetarium, an observatory, a nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer, and laboratories dedicated to plasma physics, optics, psychology, and child development.

Majors, Minors, & Programs

Ranging from Argentina to Zimbabwe, Gettysburg College offers nearly 200 off-campus study programs. Opportunities run from year- and semester-long programs at universities around the world to internships at major companies to dual-degree programs with a variety of prestigious institutions. Nearly half of Gettysburg students take part in at least one off-campus programs by the time they graduate.

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Approximately half of the campus's 2,600 students are involved with community service at any given time. Opportunities range widely, from volunteering for a day at the local homeless shelter to spending spring break cleaning up hurricane damage in New Orleans. Other spring and winter break "immersion" trips include providing meals and outreach to people living with AIDS in New York City or helping with grassroots community development projects like school construction in Nicaragua.

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The arts are central to the Gettysburg experience. Students participate in a wide variety of performance ensembles, including the Orchestra, Concert Choir, Wind Ensemble, and Marching Band. In 2004 the College's Sunderman Conservatory was founded, which offers a major in music performance. The fully renovated Majestic Theater offers a professional venue for stage performances, and the Owl & Nightingale Players theatrical club is one of the most active organizations on campus. Courses in the visual arts attract students in record numbers, and student work is exhibited regularly. There is also a writing program, which guides students in the craft of both fiction and non-fiction.

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