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Ambassador Ido Aharoni, consul general of Israel, visited campus recently to talk about his Middle East politics as well as his nation’s leadership in business innovation. At �Ա���Ƶ, both subjects always draw a crowd.

Francesca Zambello ’78 started her first opera company when she was a student at �Ա���Ƶ. In an interview in today’s New York Times she talked about collaboration, learning to fail, and having the “leadership gene.” The interview appeared in the Corner Office Column which features top executives on the challenges of leading and managing.

When the Zen-style rock garden was created outside the Ho Science Center, as subtle homage to the heritage and beliefs of Robert H.N. Ho ’56, no one anticipated that it would one day be part of the first exhibition of Chinese sound art in the world.

In higher education circles, the term “mismatch” has come to define an unintended consequence of affirmative action: bright and promising minority students do not necessarily benefit  when they are steered to elite schools for which they are typically less-prepared than their majority classmates. The interdisciplinary debate — involving economists, sociologists, educators, lawyers, and politicians — will come […]

Weatherproof speakers, iPads and iPods, video projectors and monitors, headphones, a telescope, and 64 chanting machines are among the equipment being set up on campus and in the village of Hamilton, as artists and technicians prepare for Revolutions Per Minute (RPM), the first survey exhibition of Chinese sound art to be shown inside or outside […]

�Ա���Ƶ student and alumni entrepreneurs are invited to put their mouths where the money is. Applications are now being accepted for the first round of awards from the university’s new Entrepreneurs of New York fund (ENY). The ENY fund was recently established to grow and advance for-profit and not-for-profit ventures that “have the potential to solve […]

“Revolutions per Minute,” an innovative Chinese sound-art exhibition being organized at �Ա���Ƶ by Wenhua Shi, assistant professor of art and art history, was featured today in the New York Times Arts Beat blog. The post also will appear on Mar. 4 in print as an Arts, Briefly, item.

Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook and author of the forthcoming book, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, will kick off �Ա���Ƶ’s second Entrepreneur Weekend on Friday, April 5, with at talk at 5 p.m. in Memorial Chapel. Sandberg is an ideal personality to headline the weekend, which is expected to […]

Last weekend, �Ա���Ƶ’s Board of Trustees voted unanimously in favor of the construction of a new $37.8 million, 97,000-square-foot athletic facility, contingent on the receipt of $25 million in gifts. So far, commitments toward the project total $20.8 million from alumni, families, and friends. The new facility will be adjacent to Reid Athletic Center, and feature […]

To meet the growing need for high-quality child care in the village of Hamilton, �Ա���Ƶ and Chenango Nursery School (CNS) plan to enter into a mutually beneficial partnership. Under the agreement, approved Feb. 2 by the �Ա���Ƶ Board of Trustees, the university will purchase the property at 59 W. Kendrick that is presently owned and […]