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Somehow, hearing the story of my fellow students packing up what normally takes me at least one carload into two 50-pound suitcases is different from actually living it. Today, I am on my way to London for the semester. England: birthplace of Shakespeare and Harry Potter. I am an aspiring English teacher, so the London […]

The twists and turns and trials and tribulations of the economic crisis are forcing government officials to reshape policies on a day-by-day basis in ways that have not been seen in decades, says economics professor Nicole Simpson. While there now seems to be agreement that new regulations are needed to address the crisis, government officials […]

Students taking part in an extended study course in Mexico are soaking up information during guided tours through museums and ancient ruins while producing data of their own as they conduct field work for °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê professor Anthony Aveni. The 11 students have already visited Mexico City’s National Museum of Anthropology and History and the ruins […]

Students often are asked to put their thoughts on paper. In an Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies course, they also were asked to put their thoughts on MP3 audio files. The end result of this collaborative project was 31 episodes of the Marginalized Conflict Podcast Series, which are available here or on iTunes. In […]

Gary Carrion-Murayari ’02 will play a key role in the 2010 Whitney Biennial, the signature survey of contemporary American art by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. Carrion-Murayari Carrion-Murayari, 28, a senior curatorial assistant at the Whitney, will serve as the associate curator, working with Francesco Bonami, 53, an Italian-born curator […]

Thanks to a $45,000 grant from the Community Foundation of Herkimer & Oneida Counties, °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê’s Upstate Institute will develop and implement a program that provides free legal services to local low-income residents who are filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. In conjunction with the Legal Aid Society of Mid-New York, Inc., a not-for-profit law office […]

Most days on the Academic Quad, you’ll find students carrying backpacks and occasional care packages from home. On Tuesday, though, you would have seen volunteer geology students carefully toting two large fossils: a mastodon tusk that is more than 10 feet long and approximately 200 pounds and a whale jaw bone that also tips the […]

As Paul Ridley ’05 flies from New York City to the Canary Islands today (Dec. 10), he will be looking down on the ocean that he’ll be rowing across in a solo transatlantic expedition that ends in Antigua. On Dec. 20 Ridley will embark on the 2,950-mile journey in the hopes of raising more than […]