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One of �Ա���Ƶ’s most storied rivalries will be renewed this fall when the Raiders football team travels to Syracuse for a Sept. 25 contest at the Carrier Dome. “It’s quite an opportunity for us,” Raiders coach Dick Biddle told The Post-Standard newspaper on Wednesday. “Obviously, we’ll have our hands full.”

Raiders wide receiver Pat Simonds ’10 has signed a rookie free agent contract with the Philadelphia Eagles, giving him a chance to realize his dream to play in the National Football League. The Eagles announced Monday that Simonds was among the 11 undrafted players who they signed to free agent contracts.

With his second senior thesis nearly complete and a myriad of research and leadership experience on his impressive resume, Conor Tucker’s latest quest for knowledge takes him to Oxford, England. Tucker recently received the Paul J. Schupf ’58 Fellowship for two years of study at the University of Oxford, where he will read for a […]

The future of farming and food will be the topic of a panel discussion on campus that is open to the public and also will be webcast live for those who can’t attend. The discussion will be held 4:30 p.m. Thursday in Love Auditorium, and the live webcast, available to anyone with an Internet connection, […]

More than 60 students and community members recently gathered for the annual HomeRun 5K and half-marathon, which raised more than $1,300 for Madison County’s Habitat for Humanity chapter. Organized by �Ա���Ƶ’s own Habitat for Humanity group, which is entirely student-led, the road race was held April 10, an unseasonably cold and windy day. The event […]

John Chaklader ’03 and Michael Tringali ’04 will be at The Barge Canal Coffee Co. on Thursday to talk about their new enterprise, the Shapna Project. Shapna’s mission is to “eradicate poverty one village at a time at home and abroad” using sustainable practices in the sale of tea and coffee.

Augusten Burroughs, who chronicled his unusual childhood in his 2002 memoir Running with Scissors, delivered a candid keynote address at �Ա���Ƶ’s fifth annual Big Gay Weekend. His messages ranged from developing inner strength (“What you need is not more confidence, you need to subtract whatever it is that prevents confidence, and that is caring too […]

�Ա���Ƶ student-athlete Ethan Cox has been named the 15th recipient of the BNY Mellon Wealth Management Hockey Humanitarian Award. The award is given out annually to college hockey’s finest citizen – a player that embraces humanitarian efforts that help out a community, a certain philanthropy, or a cause. Cox was named the winner Friday evening […]

The university’s Debate Society recently hosted its first-ever worlds-style tournament that drew participants from around the world and from around the country. The International Intervarsity Debate Tournament received high grades from both participants and judges.

 �Ա���Ƶ’s youngest leadership donors put the university’s “hello” tradition to good use during a networking luncheon with the Board of Trustees on March 26. The event was sponsored by the Presidents’ Club specifically for its student membership.