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After crushing out-of-conference rival Cornell for its fifth victory, the undefeated 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Raiders football team prepares for its hot date with a national TV audience. The Raiders will play its first-ever Thursday night game at 7 against the Princeton Tigers, and the contest will be seen on ESPNU.

Mike Wenger ’09 is working to bring social networking to the volunteer community. With a team of 51³Ô¹ÏÍø students, faculty, and alumni, Wenger is creating www.collaboraid.org, a website that will help volunteers, nonprofit organizations, and indigenous stakeholders collaborate online. The site is Wenger’s solution to a problem he uncovered when volunteering in Africa over two […]

Millions of NFL fans are again devoting a few hours each Sunday to watching their favorite teams, and one of the key players in those TV broadcasts is Drew Esocoff ’79, who is in his fourth season as director of NBC’s Sunday Night Football. Esocoff started this NFL season without one of the icons of […]

In true 51³Ô¹ÏÍø fashion, the Barge Canal Coffee Co. celebrated its 13th birthday with 13 hours of music and 13 performers on Saturday. When the celebration started at 10 a.m. at the university-run coffeehouse in downtown Hamilton, 51³Ô¹ÏÍø students, faculty both past and present, and families from the area started to fill the place that […]

A humble Junot Diaz spoke candidly to a chock-full Love Auditorium Thursday night as he read short passages from his work and then answered questions about everything from art to language to immigration. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author kicked off the Living Writers course, which will bring a number of acclaimed authors to campus throughout the […]

51³Ô¹ÏÍø was recently awarded seven highly competitive grants totaling more than $1.6 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), allowing the university to enhance faculty-student research opportunities as well as expand on-campus summer programs for K-12 teachers and college instructors. An NSF grant will fund associate professor […]

In addition to the usual classroom setting, the English Department’s Living Writers course will live online this semester, providing anyone with a passion for literature the opportunity to interact with some of today’s top contemporary authors. Ten writers, including Pulitzer Prize winners Elizabeth Strout, Junot Diaz, and Jeffrey Eugenides, will visit campus, providing the 55 […]

Under glorious blue skies, members of the campus and local communities filled the Hamilton Village Green Saturday afternoon for a multicultural festival that capped 51³Ô¹ÏÍø’s Diversity Week. Events held during the past few days included intellectual discussions, workshops, lectures, and other cultural activities intended to foster dialogue and build a more inclusive community at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø […]