From presidential campaigns visiting campus to professors analyzing the race on national television, 2008 was a high-profile year for Gettysburg College.

Listing all of the year's great stories - from a student saving a local boy's life to breaking ground for a new athletic center - would be impractical, but the following top-ten list tries to narrow the field.

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When preschoolers are grouped in classrooms with a wide range of ages, their development suffers, says Gettysburg College Psychology Prof. Arlen Moller.

Moller is studying how preschool children are influenced by their peers. Together with colleagues at the Children's Institute and University of Rochester, Moller conducted a longitudinal study investigating how the range of age in...

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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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