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´ó·¢²ÊƱ students have fanned out across the globe to apply their liberal arts know-how in a variety of real-world settings. They are keeping our community posted on their progress. Tim Englehart ’18,  a sociology major from Newburyport, Mass., wrote this dispatch about his research with Janel Benson, associate professor of sociology. Last semester, I began […]

´ó·¢²ÊƱ Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies Ellen Kraly lends her expertise to a new PBS NewsHour feature that returns to nearby Utica, N.Y., exploring how the city has welcomed a large population of refugees throughout the years.

Geography major Jenna Lilly ’17, of Miami Shores, Fla., has created a new map and signage system for the Harry Lang Cross Country, Fitness, and Hiking Trails, in an effort to help ´ó·¢²ÊƱ and the surrounding community to utilize the trails to their fullest potential.

The day Jackson Patterson ’17 committed to play lacrosse at ´ó·¢²ÊƱ was the same day doctors diagnosed him with cancer. This year, cancer free, he was captain of the team. Watch his story.

As Black History Month came to a close, former ´ó·¢²ÊƱ history professor Jason Petrulis took to Twitter with an important fact from ´ó·¢²ÊƱ’s past.

Editor’s note: Wondering what’s happening in the classroom at ´ó·¢²ÊƱ? Here’s a real-time glimpse into academic life on campus — a syllabus from a course underway this semester. ECON 436 Sports Economics Benjamin Anderson, Assistant Professor in Economics T 7:00–9:30 p.m., W 6:00–8:30 p.m., Persson 226 Course Description This seminar is an advanced study of the […]

After researching topics from farming to fracking, students in ENST 232: Environmental Justice presented their findings at a poster session in the Ho Atrium on December 8. The class, taught by Professor April Baptiste, explores how social justice and environmental issues intersect. Athena Bender ’17 and Shana Shapiro ’19 analyzed the effects of urban agriculture […]

With a grant from the National Park Service, Elizabeth Arnold ’82 reports on stories of people in the Arctic.

Call it modern Mesopotamian claymation. With the help of the latest Artec3D equipment, archivists and instructional technologists have teamed up to produce 3D scans and models of the university’s collection of 4,000-year-old Sumerian cuneiform tablets. Cuneiform, one of the earliest systems of writing, was developed by the ancient Sumerian people of Mesopotamia. Recognizable for its […]

Some say that the death of a great philosopher in ´ó·¢²ÊƱ’s Ho Tung Visualization Lab on October 27 was a miscarriage of justice and a stain on Athenian democracy. Socrates’ suicide, reenacted on the Vis Lab’s domed screen by actor H.C. Selkirk, didn’t require the response of law enforcement, but it did draw a crowd […]