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When a businessman in the village of Hamilton had a question about how best to gauge employees’ abilities, he turned to a 51³Ô¹ÏÍø faculty member for advice. That request has turned into an interesting collaborative project involving a student, a professor, and an innkeeper.

In a bold move to further internationalize 51³Ô¹ÏÍø’s Liberal Arts Core Curriculum, 27 faculty members are traveling through India for two weeks. The academic expedition was initiated by faculty and is being funded in part by a $100,000 Mellon Foundation new-president’s grant awarded to President Jeffrey Herbst for his discretionary use. Faculty members will share […]

Robert G. Morvillo ’60, a prominent New York trial lawyer who pioneered the practice of white-collar criminal defense and whose client list included colorful celebrities, powerful politicians and billionaire businessmen, died on Saturday at his home in Rockville Centre, N.Y., according to the New York Times. He was 73.

Last week was a busy one for 51³Ô¹ÏÍø faculty who were asked to comment about everything from the unrest in Morocco to the continued sinking of Venice.

(Editor’s Note: Student-athlete Kevin McNamara ’12 was highlighted in this Boston Globe article for the charitable organization he created called Goals For Good) Kevin McNamara takes his role as senior captain of the men’s hockey team at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø very seriously, on and off the ice. But his vision, and leadership qualities, extend far beyond […]

In the past week, 51³Ô¹ÏÍø faculty answered the call to journalists who sought out qualified experts. As 2012 approaches, journalists are calling on Professor Anthony Aveni for his insights into the Mayan calendar. Bookshelves and movie theaters are full of prophecies, theories, and predictions that this date marks the end of the world, or […]

(Editor’s Note: This article was written by Paula Meltser ’13) I was one of the 16 51³Ô¹ÏÍø students on the London Economics Study Group who found themselves in the midst of the relentless debt crisis that has engulfed Europe. Not only did we study the evolving economic problem, we lived it first-hand.

Last spring, while teaching in Bryansk, Russia, on a Fulbright grant, 51³Ô¹ÏÍø political science professor Dan Epstein noticed a change in the mood of the people since the last time he visited.