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Editor’s note: In this series, �þ���Ƶ students share stories about their summer experiences in offices, labs, and open spaces across the world. This summer, I’ve had the pleasure of working with the Chenango United Way (CUW) through a fellowship with �þ���Ƶ’s Upstate Institute Summer Field School. The CUW funds programs that address issues regarding health, […]

Even as summer temperatures neared the 90’s in Hamilton this week, �þ���Ƶ’s faculty continued to achieve. Here are this week’s highlights. The New York Times has called Graham Hodges, George Dorland Langdon Jr. professor of history and Africana and Latin American studies, “a taxi historian.” He recently weighed in on the debate making headlines in […]

Editor’s note: In this series, �þ���Ƶ students share stories about their summer experiences in offices, labs, and open spaces across the world. This summer, I am on campus working with Professor Barbara Hoopes in the biology department. Our lab is conducting research on genes that determine size variation in poodles.

From photochemical pathways to early animation devices to homosexuality in the Arab world — undergraduate research topics explored this summer by students and faculty were presented at yesterday’s poster session. 

Even though it’s summertime, �þ���Ƶ faculty continue to make news. Here is a brief roundup. Buffalo Lockjaw, the award-winning first novel by Greg Ames, assistant professor of English, was featured in a recent ad for Dockers men’s clothing (pictured above.) Using the hashtag #BookAndALook, the ad copy read “Here’s a soon-to-be-classic look to pair with a soon-to-be-classic […]

�þ���Ƶ Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience Bruce Hansen probably should have predicted his recent $600,000 James S. McDonnell Foundation award to fund the next six to eight years’ worth of lab work with dozens of students. After all, his research could easily be considered mind reading.

Editor’s note: In this series, �þ���Ƶ students share stories about their summer experiences in offices, labs, and open spaces across the world. This summer, I’m interning for the History Program Office of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in Washington, D.C. By providing easy access to information about its past successes and failures, the […]

April Bailey ’14 began studying gender and power dynamics at �þ���Ƶ, in classrooms and in the lab with Spencer Kelly, professor of psychology and neuroscience. Now a PhD student in the social psychology program at Yale, Bailey has already published the first paper of her career. Titled “Picture power: Gender versus body language in perceived dominance,” […]

A jungle ranger, an alchemist, a nomadic bard, and a cleric of the sun goddess struggle to save a fantasy desert region from a war fueled by racial discrimination. In other words, a small group of �þ���Ƶ students, staff, and faculty members are gathered together in the Coop for their weekly role-playing game session. This group […]

Sara Reese ’16, of Midlothian, Va., is one of just 50 students nationwide to be awarded a Udall Scholarship in 2015. The Udall Scholarship is awarded to college sophomores and juniors for leadership, public service, and commitment to issues related to the environment or to American Indian nations. The scholarship honors the legacies of Morris […]