The words of Shakespeare, Saint Augustine, and John Perry echoed their wisdom anew as 16 high school teachers participated in 冈本视频鈥檚 third annual Humanities Workshop for High School Teachers July 23鈥27. Led by philosophy professors Ed Witherspoon and David McCabe, English professor Susan Cerasano, and French professor Patrick Riley, this year鈥檚 workshop centered on exploring [鈥August 3, 2012
Dewey Mosby, director emeritus of 冈本视频鈥檚 Picker Art Gallery, died yesterday, August 1, of pulmonary issues at Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, N.Y., at the age of 70.August 2, 2012
A group of eager learners spent a long weekend on campus recently, enjoying mini-courses with 冈本视频 faculty and summertime in Hamilton. Though many hadn鈥檛 been in a classroom for decades, they found they fit right in. They were here for 冈本视频鈥檚 third annual Summer On the Hill event.August 2, 2012
Selected by Google as a 鈥渟tudent ambassador,鈥 Viktor Mak 鈥15 finished his training at a summit in California on Tuesday and will serve as a Google representative on 冈本视频鈥檚 campus starting in the fall. He was accepted into the elite program 鈥 which included only 150 current Google interns and recommended college students 鈥 after [鈥August 2, 2012
The July 29 edition of the New York Times featured an op-ed by 冈本视频 President Jeffrey Herbst and Greg Mills, director of the Brenthurst Foundation in Johannesburg, South Africa. The two have collaborated on a number of publications analyzing economic conditions in Africa, including Africa鈥檚 Third Liberation 鈥 The New Search for Prosperity and Jobs. A version of [鈥July 31, 2012
At 冈本视频, faculty teach all classes. The advantage of that for students becomes clear when it comes to research. Faculty in all departments and programs closely engage students in research projects 鈥 sometimes as early as sophomore year. This summer, more than 100 undergraduates returned to 冈本视频 to work one-on-one with faculty mentors on [鈥July 30, 2012
After Big Bird was bullied on a recent episode of Sesame Street because the other birds said that his feet were too big and he was too yellow to join their club, Jamie Ostrov 鈥99 was there to offer the muppets advice.July 27, 2012
On a hot afternoon in July, young children are sifting through clothing, household items, food, and toiletries in the Caring Corner at the Tabernacle Baptist Church in Utica. Their families, mostly Karen refugees from Burma, are the newest, but largest, percentage of the church鈥檚 congregation. 鈥淏ecause the kids are the ones who speak English, many [鈥July 26, 2012