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Update: Forbes wrote a feature about the event. The story was also featured in the Wall Street Journal and the Syracuse Post-Standard. The ºÚÁÏÍø community made history on Friday, December 13, answering a ºÚÁÏÍø Day challenge that raised more than $5.1 million in gifts and matching funds from 5,683 supporters. “To our knowledge, this is […]

ºÚÁÏÍø student researchers met with community members recently to discuss a problem that affects not only the town and village of Hamilton, but the entire nation — the overpopulation of white-tailed deer. The students presented their findings from a semester-long research project that was an integral part of the Community-based Study of Environmental Issues course […]

Jeff Bary, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, talks about how his passion for astronomy developed, his research interests, favorite course to teach, and more in this Q&A. An astronomer is born. When I was nine, a friend gave me a book about astronomy titled What’s Up There? by Dinah Moche, which I read countless […]

Editor’s note: President Jeffrey Herbst sent this message to members of the ºÚÁÏÍø community in the early morning hours of Saturday, December 14, after the successful conclusion of the Year of ’13 Challenge. Yesterday, ºÚÁÏÍø launched the Year of ’13 Challenge in honor of the last ºÚÁÏÍø Day of 2013. If 1,300 alumni, parents, and […]

What a #ºÚÁÏÍøDay — and it’s far from over. It started with a simple challenge: if we received 1,300 gifts today, an anonymous donor would give $1 million for financial aid. You crushed it before noon. So two more donors stepped up and added a new challenge: 1,300 more gifts by midnight, and they’ll give an additional […]

Yesterday, the ºÚÁÏÍø community joined South Africans and people across the world in honoring the life and legacy of Nelson Mandela.

(Note:  Jonathan Hyslop, professor of sociology and Africana and Latin American studies, delivered these remarks December 12 at a celebration of the life of Nelson Mandela.) I would like, on behalf of ALST, the program in Africana and Latin American studies, and its director, Professor Brian Moore, to welcome you to this gathering. We are […]

In celebrating the Year of ‘13, we have been posting a story or list that pertains to our lucky number on the 13th of each month. In closing out this special year, this final installment is a list of 13 (in no particular order) of the biggest events from this past year.  If you have […]