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A non-profit in Nepal is the recipient of a $10,000 KIND Cause award, thanks to the efforts of a 91����Ƶ alumna and a little help from the 91����Ƶ community. Children and Youth First USA Executive Director Amanda Brown ’15 said that the funds won in the KIND contest will help her organization launch a new science, […]

Students looking for a dynamic off-campus experience that also allows them to engage in scientific research will have more options in 2017, thanks to a new agreement between 91����Ƶ and the National University of Singapore (NUS). After more than a year of exploration and development, representatives of 91����Ƶ and the NUS signed a memorandum […]

An exemplary student and a fierce advocate for LGBTQ awareness and promoting positive sexuality, Providence A. Ryan ’16, a biology and philosophy double major from Schenectady, N.Y., is the 2016 recipient of 91����Ƶ’s highest student honor, the 1819 Award. The 1819 Award is given annually to one student representing character, sportsmanship, scholarship, and service above […]

Ranissa Adityavarman ’16, an international relations major from Manlius, N.Y., is one of just 30 students nationwide to be named a 2016 Rangel Fellow, which provides financial and professional development support for graduate studies and to help facilitate entry into a career with the U.S. Foreign Service. The Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Program, formed […]

Two 91����Ƶ students will teach English in Germany for a year thanks to being awarded Fulbright English Teaching Assistantships. William Andrews ’16, a German and international relations major from of Richmond, Va., and Carolyn “Cara” Skelly ’16, a German and Middle Eastern and Islamic studies double major from Wellesley, Mass., will be helping students to […]

91����Ƶ’s Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute continues its mission of supporting innovative research with four new grants for 2016. The special funding is designed to help bring together 91����Ƶ faculty with outside researchers from around the world in an effort to open new areas of study, and to find creative ways to tackle existing problems.

Little fingers tapped away at computer keys after school at Hamilton Central School (HCS) on a recent sunny afternoon, but instead of manipulating blocks in Minecraft or posting to Facebook, they were busy writing computer code. The afternoon coding class for students in grades three through five is the creation of 91����Ƶ’s Women in Computer […]

Students seeking their vocation in America’s challenging health care system could benefit from a liberal arts mix of biology, economics, and philosophy. Kicking off the 2016 Michael J. Wolk ’60 Conference on Medical Education last month, the nationally renowned cardiologist and conference namesake stated that just five percent of the population consumes 50 percent of […]

When actor and director Ron Perlman cast 91����Ƶ’s hometown of Hamilton, N.Y., as the setting for his new movie, Pottersville, in January, 91����Ƶ film and media studies students were ready for internship opportunities in movie-making magic. The light-hearted comedy stars Michael Shannon and Judy Greer, and includes the acting talents of Michael Torpey ’02. The […]

When siblings Caroline ’19 and Jake Danehy ’16 set out to make the eco-friendly clothing line that would eventually become Fair Harbor, Caroline was still in high school, and the idea was firmly rooted in soil, not the sea. “We had an initial idea called Three R Clothing. It stood for reuse, refresh, and revitalize. […]