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After the paper on Tolstoy has been turned in and the research notes on reverse micelles have been typed up, some students just want to use a different part of their brain for a different purpose for awhile. So they strategize and ponder world domination by playing Risk or Axis & Allies, or release their […]

Justin Cronin is the author of the widely praised novel-in-stories Mary and O’Neil, which won the 2002 PEN/Hemingway Award and the Stephen Crane Prize, both for best debut fiction of the year. In the third episode of the podcast series ����Ӱ�� Conversations: Writers and their Craft, Cronin talks about the success of his book and […]

Tickets for the Dalai Lama’s lecture at ����Ӱ�� will be made available starting Thursday (March 20). As part of the university’s Global Leaders Lecture Series, sponsored by ����Ӱ��’s Parents’ and Grandparents’ Fund, the Dalai Lama will give a talk at Sanford Fieldhouse from 3 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, April 22. Thanks to the generosity […]

Joanne Race Borfitz of Norwich, N.Y., will join ����Ӱ�� as associate vice president of community relations and auxiliary services starting April 7. Borfitz fills a new position created to manage ����Ӱ��’s relationship with and investments in local and regional communities. She will also oversee the primary auxiliary operations of the university. “Joanne is a […]

The ����Ӱ�� rugby football club today departed New York City for a nine-day trip to Ireland. It is the club’s second tour of Ireland – its maiden voyage was in 2004. Since then, the club has enjoyed tremendous success, making the “Elite Eight” in the Northeast Rugby Union in 2004 and again last fall in […]

For spring break this year, nine ����Ӱ�� students will roll up their sleeves and dig in to help others — literally. Accompanied by Daniel Mandell, assistant director of the COVE, the group will head to the Dominican Republic this Friday to plant vegetable gardens and lead educational sessions on nutrition for the community of El […]

Campus was buzzing today about the blizzard that hit Sunday. No, not the lake-effect-snow kind of blizzard, but rather the hundreds of students and fans who donned white T-shirts to watch the men’s basketball team beat Bucknell to advance to the Patriot League championship game. More than 1,300 fans jammed Cotterell Court to watch the […]

The thrill is definitely not gone for Ken Schanzer. As president of NBC Sports for nearly 10 years, he says he has “one of the greatest jobs on the planet.” As an alumnus from the Class of 1966, he says his love of ����Ӱ�� — a place of “magic and miracles” — is as strong as […]

Within minutes of walking into New York City’s Soho House on Wednesday night, the club was abuzz with ����Ӱ�� alumni exchanging stories — a few good laughs as well — about their days back in Hamilton. Then, it was time to get down to business. More than 100 ����Ӱ�� alumni from the classes of ’85 […]

Students gathered in the O’Connor Campus Center last week to engage in formal political discussion as part of a mock Democratic caucus. With tensions running high between the Democratic presidential hopefuls, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama, students hoped the caucus process would help them better understand the candidates and their platforms.