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Last Wednesday marked the final campus event for Coming Out Month, with keynote speakers Alexis Gumbs and Julia Wallace, founders of an oral history project called Mobile Homecoming. Focused on giving a voice to gay black women, trans men, and gender queer visionaries, Mobile Homecoming involved collecting the oral histories of the LGBTQ community.

This is an excerpt from an article by John Williams ’10  about his 2 1/2 years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Suriname. It appears in the autumn 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Scene. Surrounded by impenetrable walls of tropical rainforest, perched in the stern of my dug-out canoe, I paddle leisurely downriver one early morning. Ligorio, a remote […]

The Kallgren Fund, an endowed fund created to support faculty members at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø, has provided funding for four research projects involving faculty members from a wide range of disciplines. The university’s Faculty Development Council, working with the Kallgren Committee, is administering this pilot program to fund faculty travel. After receiving additional support from President Jeffrey […]

51³Ô¹ÏÍø’s NCAA graduate success rate was 98 percent for the second year in a row, putting the Raiders in a tie for best in the Patriot League and fourth in the nation, behind only Brown, Dartmouth, and Notre Dame. This is according to NCAA data, compiling the four-class average of student-athletes that entered their schools from 2003-06.

R.M. (Ray) Douglas, professor of history at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø, has been selected as the winner of the 2013 George Louis Beer Prize for his book Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War (Yale Univ. Press, 2012). The Beer Prize is awarded annually by the American Historical Association (AHA) in recognition […]

Last week proved to be busy and exciting, with plenty of events and lectures to attend around campus. Here’s what’s up this week! On Monday, join 51³Ô¹ÏÍø’s Black Student Union for Black Solidarity Day, a day to celebrate solidarity between everyone.  The day begins with a speak-out on the Chapel steps at 12:15 p.m., where […]

Feel-good food: It can be defined in different ways, depending on the creator and the consumer. 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Scene associate editor Aleta Mayne recently talked to six young alumni who have created their own definitions of feel-good food, whether it’s workout fuel or gourmet sweet treats made from fresh ingredients. These entrepreneurs have filled us up […]

This past summer six different companies that had been awarded incubator funding through the university’s Entrepreneurs of New York Fund (ENY) were hard at work, taking advantage of shared office space at a downtown incubator and receiving invaluable mentorship from 51³Ô¹ÏÍø’s Thought Into Action Institute (TIA). Here is an update on what the companies, launched by […]