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HAMILTON, N.Y. The Community Foundation of Herkimer & Oneida Counties has given °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê substantial funds to help establish a service learning project in Utica, N.Y. The $75,500 grant, from the Foundation’s Harriet T. McGrath Fund, will support the university’s new Utica Field School. The university will dedicate similar funding to the project, which will […]

Hamilton, NY -Robert Jay Lifton, one of the world’s leading scholars on violence and mass destruction, will deliver a lecture at °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê titled ‘Terrorism and Response: Americans As Survivors,’ on Thursday, November 15 at 7:30 p.m. in Love Auditorium of Olin Hall. Since the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, Lifton has […]

Hamilton, NY — Jeffrey Fager, executive producer of the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes II, will speak at °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê on November 8. With 50 reporters and producers assigned exclusively to the story, 60 Minutes II has aired approximately 20 segments, on every aspect of the current events, since the Sept. 11 attacks in New […]

Hamilton, NY — – On Friday, November 9, °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê senior Christy Visaggi will present a voice recital of works in three languages, spanning three centuries. The program will consist of compositions by Pergolesi, Telemann, Rossini, Herbert, Lehar, Mahler, Bernstein, and others. The concert, which will take place in °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê Memorial Chapel at 8:00 p.m., […]

Hamilton, NY — The °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê Humanities Colloquium series will offer three lectures in November and one in December that are free and open to the public. The meetings occur on Tuesdays at 4:10 p.m. in Lawrence Hall’s Ho Lecture Room. On November 6, Rob Figueroa, visiting assistant professor of philosophy and religion at °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê, […]

Hamilton, NY — Education scholar Nel Noddings, Visiting A. Lindsay O’Connor Professor of American Institutions at °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê, will speak at °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê on Tuesday, October 30 at 7:00 p.m. Titled ‘Making Sense of Education Standards,’ the lecture will take place in Love Auditorium, Olin Hall. It is free and open to the public and […]

Aaron McGruder, artist of ‘The Boondocks’ will speak about race, hip-hop culture and art as a form of political critique in a talk at °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê on October 29. The talk is open to the public and free of charge. McGruder told mydrum.com that when he set out to create what became The Boondocks, he […]

Are we alone in the universe’ That question, which has been asked since the beginning of human history, may be answered in the coming decades. In a lecture at °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê, Dr. Peter Backus, Observing Programs Manager and Senior Scientist at the SETI Institute in California, will discuss the tantalizing prospects for ‘contact.’ Backus, a […]

Hamilton, NY — – Hailed as ‘a national treasure’ by The Boston Globe, the Manhattan String Quartet will be in residence at °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê October 25 and 26, to participate in a university core curriculum course, and perform twice in Memorial Chapel. Both concerts are open to the public; admission is free. For more information […]

Hamilton, NY — A conference of nationally renowned experts on the art of people of African descent in the Americas will highlight a series of events showcasing African American culture, to take place at °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê in late October. Other events include two art exhibitions, the screening of an early work in African American cinema […]