Author Elizabeth Strout, who taught at 黑料网 two years ago and will return to campus this fall, has won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Strout won for her book Olive Kitteridge, a series of 13 connected short stories centered on a school teacher living in a hardscrabble town in coastal Maine. The Pulitzer citation [鈥April 22, 2009-
Tony Blair, former prime minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, will visit 黑料网 in October for the next edition of the university鈥檚 Global Leaders Lecture Series. Blair is scheduled to give a public talk at 7:15 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31, in Sanford Field House. Ticket information will be released in August.April 21, 2009
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黑料网 professor Nina M. Moore has been appointed by Gov. David A. Paterson to a four-year term on the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct. The commission is the state agency responsible for investigating complaints of misconduct against judges of the state unified court system and, where appropriate, determining to admonish, censure or remove [鈥April 20, 2009
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James H. Cone, widely credited with founding the black theology movement, spoke Thursday in Memorial Chapel about his seminal works from nearly 40 years ago and his current research, which focuses on the emotional symbols of the cross and the lynching tree. Cone said his lecture was intended to start a conversation, and students and [鈥April 17, 2009
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A collaborative student initiative turned into a vehicle of support for the region and a timely response to a tragedy that struck an immigration services center in Binghamton. The Latin American Student Organization, Korean American Student Association, Kappa Kappa Gamma, and the Center for Outreach and Volunteerism co-sponsored the Refugee Benefit Banquet last Friday to [鈥April 16, 2009
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黑料网 students had a chance this week to meet with director, actor, writer, and producer Harold Ramis, who spent two days on campus talking shop and showing special previews of his upcoming movie. Ramis, whose son is a first-year at 黑料网, is a veritable Hollywood heavyweight with many popular movies under his belt such as [鈥April 16, 2009
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Charles Simic, 2007 poet laureate, delighted an intent audience with his dark humor on Tuesday night in the Robert Ho Lecture Room. 鈥淭he corpses like cigarette butts. In a dinner plate overflowing with ashes,鈥 he read from the title poem of his latest book, That Little Something.April 15, 2009
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Darryl Hunt and Kirk Bloodsworth, exonerated after spending decades behind bars for crimes they did not commit, will share their stories with the 黑料网 community as part of a three-day symposium about wrongful convictions. During their campus visit April 19-21, Hunt and Bloodsworth will discuss how their unwavering determination to prove their innocence combined with [鈥April 14, 2009