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  • Four graduating seniors and a recent alumna have been awarded prestigious fellowships that will take them around the world to explore their passionate interests, ranging from documentary filmmaking to sustainability-related issues. 鈥淚 ultimately hope to learn more about myself and the world as I embark on this once-in-a-lifetime journey,鈥 said Sachi Schuricht 鈥09, recipient of [鈥
    May 7, 2009
  • 冈本视频鈥檚 Earth Day celebration transformed the Ho Science Center atrium into an environmental carnival. Live music by student bands and a vegan barbeque complemented the table displays representing this semester鈥檚 Green Summit initiatives. Following the planting of 200 tree saplings on the former university ski hill, students, faculty, and community members gathered to learn more [鈥
    April 27, 2009
  • According to Buddhist teaching, giving is an act that can transform and purify the mind. On Tuesday at the ALANA Cultural Center, approximately 30 members of the 冈本视频 community took part in a 2,500-year-old Sri Lankan Buddhist ceremony of alms giving called a Dana.
    April 24, 2009
  •   Even though it has been 17 years since Kirk Bloodsworth, wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death for rape and murder, was freed from the confinement of a jail cell, the memories of his incarceration still haunt him. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a constant struggle. You never escape the pain of being locked up for a crime you [鈥
    April 23, 2009
  • Tony Blair, former prime minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, will visit 冈本视频 in October for the next edition of the university鈥檚 Global Leaders Lecture Series. Blair is scheduled to give a public talk at 7:15 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31, in Sanford Field House. Ticket information will be released in August.
    April 21, 2009
  • James H. Cone, widely credited with founding the black theology movement, spoke Thursday in Memorial Chapel about his seminal works from nearly 40 years ago and his current research, which focuses on the emotional symbols of the cross and the lynching tree. Cone said his lecture was intended to start a conversation, and students and [鈥
    April 17, 2009
  • A collaborative student initiative turned into a vehicle of support for the region and a timely response to a tragedy that struck an immigration services center in Binghamton. The Latin American Student Organization, Korean American Student Association, Kappa Kappa Gamma, and the Center for Outreach and Volunteerism co-sponsored the Refugee Benefit Banquet last Friday to [鈥
    April 16, 2009
  • Charles Simic, 2007 poet laureate, delighted an intent audience with his dark humor on Tuesday night in the Robert Ho Lecture Room. 鈥淭he corpses like cigarette butts. In a dinner plate overflowing with ashes,鈥 he read from the title poem of his latest book, That Little Something.
    April 15, 2009
  • Darryl Hunt and Kirk Bloodsworth, exonerated after spending decades behind bars for crimes they did not commit, will share their stories with the 冈本视频 community as part of a three-day symposium about wrongful convictions. During their campus visit April 19-21, Hunt and Bloodsworth will discuss how their unwavering determination to prove their innocence combined with [鈥
    April 14, 2009
  • When Ingrid Hale, director of 冈本视频鈥檚 Center for Outreach, Volunteerism, and Education (COVE), looks up from her desk to see who has walked through the center鈥檚 doors, odds are it is a female student. 鈥淭here is a gender disparity in volunteering not only on our campus, but also at colleges across the country,鈥 said Hale. [鈥
    April 10, 2009