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�Ա���Ƶ seniors Shae Frydenlund and Jennifer Rusciano are two of 40 students awarded the prestigious Thomas J. Watson Fellowship for a year of exploration around the world.

Alternative spring break trips proved beneficial not only for the organizations where �Ա���Ƶ students volunteered their time and efforts, but for many of the students themselves. The Center for Outreach, Volunteerism, and Education and the Office of the Chaplains organized several trips for students looking to do something meaningful with their time away from campus.

Catherine Cardelús’s passionate interest in tropical biodiversity — one that takes her to rain forest canopies 150 feet above ground — sprouted from a college course in plant biology. Cardelús, assistant professor of biology, was so intrigued by a professor’s lecture about rain forest diversity that she felt compelled to see it firsthand. So fresh […]

Two highly regarded filmmakers will visit campus this week, presenting four films over four nights and meeting with students in several classes. James Benning and Sharon Lockhart, who both just returned from the Berlin Film Festival, will personally present each of their films at the 7 p.m. screenings at Golden Auditorium, Little Hall. The films […]

 Whether you tend to see cups as half-empty or half-full, one measure remains constant: Student fees only cover 67 percent of the �Ա���Ƶ experience.

Francesca Zambello ’78, an internationally renown director who has worked at many of the world’s major opera houses, will assume the reins of Glimmerglass Opera in Cooperstown, NY. Zambello’s appointment to general and artistic director of the 35-year-old summer opera festival made headlines this week in regional and national media.

During his first two years at �Ա���Ƶ, Naledi Semela ’10 lived in the Harlem Renaissance Center (HRC). Yet he didn’t fully connect the residence’s theme to its history and culture until he took the recent Harlem Renaissance Tour. “There were portraits and artworks on the walls,” said Samela, an art and art history major, “but […]

Six students took advantage of the opportunity to share research findings and sharpen presentation skills at a recent science symposium held at Harvard Medical School. The undergraduates, who are in �Ա���Ƶ’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Program (S-STEM), mingled with peers from other universities, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and others at the New […]