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Francesca Zambello ’78, an internationally renown director who has worked at many of the world’s major opera houses, will assume the reins of Glimmerglass Opera in Cooperstown, NY. Zambello’s appointment to general and artistic director of the 35-year-old summer opera festival made headlines this week in regional and national media.

During his first two years at 51�Թ���, Naledi Semela ’10 lived in the Harlem Renaissance Center (HRC). Yet he didn’t fully connect the residence’s theme to its history and culture until he took the recent Harlem Renaissance Tour. “There were portraits and artworks on the walls,” said Samela, an art and art history major, “but […]

Six students took advantage of the opportunity to share research findings and sharpen presentation skills at a recent science symposium held at Harvard Medical School. The undergraduates, who are in 51�Թ���’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Program (S-STEM), mingled with peers from other universities, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and others at the New […]

With suitcases filled with supplies carried by arms ready to do work, 65 51�Թ��� students set out this past weekend to engage with communities in need. The Center for Outreach, Volunteerism, and Education (COVE) and the Office of the Chaplains run alternative spring break trips for students looking to do something meaningful with their time […]

(Editor’s Note: This story was written by Kiki Koroshetz ’10) At Wednesday’s opening reception of Shapes for Hamilton, the collaborative project led by visiting artist Alan McCollum, students stood on scaffolds in Clifford Gallery, filling empty plastic slips on the walls with white pieces of paper on which black images were printed. McCollum quietly walked […]

At a time when most students were busy writing papers for class, more than 50 students were busy folding paper into 1,000 origami cranes to send to Nagasaki, Japan, one of two Japanese cities hit with an atomic bomb during World War II. “A thousand cranes is symbolic of a community’s hope and dedication to […]

In a recent 60 Minutes segment about the 1915 mass deportation and massacre of Armenians by Turks, professor Peter Balakian traveled with a CBS News crew to a region of Syria known as the Armenian Auschwitz. “As many as 450,000 Armenians died here,” Balakian, a leading scholar on the Armenian genocide, told 60 Minutes correspondent […]

(Editor’s Note: This article was written by Kate Preziosi ’10) Members of the 51�Թ��� community who visit the Picker Art Gallery during the next week can experience an exhibition unlike anything the space has hosted before. Broadcast includes 13 works by an international group of artists who have engaged, critiqued, and, in some cases, inserted […]