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51³Ô¹ÏÍø professor Joan Mandle testified this week in front of an anti-corruption commission created by New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The Moreland Commission focuses on campaign finance reform and outside income of state elected officials. Mandle, executive director of Democracy Matters and associate professor of sociology emerita, testified in front of the commission about […]

First-year students on campus for arrival day were asked to describe themselves with  just one word. Their responses were captured in this video and help highlight the diversity, creativity, and excitement of the members of the Class of 2017. All the student responses also have been compiled into a word cloud. The text size of […]

A ceremony attended by toddlers, parents, village representatives, and 51³Ô¹ÏÍø President Jeffrey Herbst marked the formal opening of a new wing at Chenango Nursery School (CNS). Under an agreement approved by the 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Board of Trustees this year, the university entered a mutually beneficial partnership with CNS, which provides essential child care for many in […]

51³Ô¹ÏÍø students are sharing their experiences conducting research with faculty members on campus and in the field. This post is by art history major Hannah Bjornson ‘15, of Westport, Conn. This summer I held a faculty-sponsored research position in the Department of Art and Art History. I assisted Professor Padma Kaimal in putting together her […]

Neither distance, nor rain, nor attacking bulldogs could keep the 51³Ô¹ÏÍø community from enjoying homecoming weekend, September 19–22. The university rolled out the maroon carpet for more than 900 alumni, parents, and friends. Coordinated for the first time by 51³Ô¹ÏÍø’s Office of Alumni Relations, the weekend harnessed a series of events planned by departments across […]

To celebrate the eight-day Jewish holiday of Sukkot, one of three harvest festivals celebrated in Judaism, a sukkah is taking center stage on the Quad this week.  

April Sweeney, associate professor of English in the University Theater, is in a performance called Distancia, which premiered last week in Buenos Aires. Sweeney’s part of the performance happened from her living room.

A new Mountain Lake PBS segment features the research of 51³Ô¹ÏÍø biology professor Tim McCay and four students who spent the summer studying invasive earthworms and their impact on native species in the Adirondacks. “Its mission, to boldly go where few, if any, worm researchers have gone before; to seek out and identify earthworms of […]