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A new Mountain Lake PBS segment features the research of ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ biology professor Tim McCay and four students who spent the summer studying invasive earthworms and their impact on native species in the Adirondacks. “Its mission, to boldly go where few, if any, worm researchers have gone before; to seek out and identify earthworms of […]

U.S. Rep. Richard Hanna, R-Barneveld, connected with the ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ community Monday, meeting with faculty, administrators, and students, discussing issues ranging from natural-gas fracking to political gridlock and the federal budget sequester. After hearing Michael Hayes, professor of political science, describe ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ’s Washington D.C. Study Group, Hanna immediately handed Hayes a business card and said […]

New international students arrived on campus last week, just a few days before throngs of cars packed Whitnall Field for first-year move-in day Saturday. The pre-Orientation program for international students is designed to help ease the transition for those traveling to Hamilton, N.Y., from outside the United States. Assistant Dean and Office of International Student […]

During the Year of ’13 ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ has been covered by the global media more than ever. From picturesque Hamilton, N.Y., to Perth, Australia, students, faculty, and staff have been featured by major media outlets for their expertise and compelling stories. This month’s Year of ’13 list focuses on a some of the fantastic media coverage, […]

Digistar Users Group members from around the world are now gathered at ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ’s Ho Tung Visualization Lab for their 26th annual conference. Hamilton, N.Y., joins sites in Germany, Japan, Canada, India, and the Netherlands as a conference host for users of the Digistar projection system, the technological heart of ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ’s unique visualization lab.

Summer certainly means pool parties, lazy afternoons, and hot dogs on the grill. At ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ, summer also means time for some serious research. A sampling of about 150 students conducting summer research on campus presented their findings at the Robert H.N. Ho Science Center last week. The research on display spanned a wide range of […]

A July 11 New York Times op-ed, co-authored by ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ President Jeffrey Herbst and Greg Mills, director of the Johannesburg-based Brenthurst Foundation, examines the World Bank’s diminishing role in Africa while encouraging the institution to steer away from investing in poorly run governments. Herbst and Mills last co-authored an op-ed in the Times on July […]

As events rapidly unfold in Egypt, experts at ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ are discussing the groundswell of public dissatisfaction with that country’s democratically elected government, and how the Egyptian population now appears largely in favor of a military coup. Bruce Rutherford, ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ associate professor of political science and director of Middle Eastern and Islamic civilization studies, is intimately […]

¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ graduates have the benefit of a strong liberal arts education that incorporates great internships, student-faculty research, and access to a network of amazing alumni. A new nationwide survey shows they also have the distinction of being very successful. ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ graduates are ranked 13 for highest mid-career salary, tied with Notre Dame, Dartmouth, and Harvard, […]

The nearly nonstop activity behind the window of 20 Utica Street in the village of Hamilton might give the impression that something exciting is afoot at the former Parry’s Hardware store. That impression would be correct. Thanks to the Entrepreneurs of New York Fund (ENY), six fledgling small businesses launched by ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ students and alumni […]