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This article by Julia Queller, originally appeared in the ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ Maroon News. Reprinted with permission.  Forty-eight Flags now hang in Curtis E. Frank Dining Hall to represent the makeup of ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ’s 2012-2013 student body. Student Government Association (SGA) Senior Policy Coordinator junior Sam Flood orchestrated the year-long initiative to hang the new flags. “I walked into […]

What do a smoke machine, coq au vin, and the Beach Boys have in common? They were all features of the first round of the music-themed Chefs’ Fare competition, a program run by Sodexo Marketing that pits chefs from local colleges against each other in a cooking throw-down.

In the wake of the school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ’s Office of the Chaplains and the university’s Interfaith Service Initiative held a memorial prayer service on Saturday at the chapel. 

Children learning to plié and pirouette at the Hamilton Center for the Arts have instructors that could also tutor them in neuroscience and sociology. Three ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ students are now teaching children, ages 6 to 10, beginner dance lessons at the 10 Broad Street location of the HCA in downtown Hamilton.

Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook and author of the forthcoming book, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, will kick off ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ’s second Entrepreneur Weekend on Friday, April 5, with at talk at 5 p.m. in Memorial Chapel. Sandberg is an ideal personality to headline the weekend, which is expected to […]

It’s only February, but the Year of ’13 has already offered many ways to remember and celebrate ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ. As promised, on the 13th of every month we will post a story or list pertaining to our lucky number. Here are 13 of the many high-profile speakers and special guests who have visited campus over the […]

Acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson will speak at ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ’s Memorial Chapel at 7 p.m. Monday, February 25. Tyson is director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space and a research associate in the department of astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History. He is a highly regarded spokesman for science […]

In the current issue of the ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ Scene, we take a deep dive into milk. We all heard about the fiscal cliff ad nauseum, but did you know the dairy industry has been teetering on a cliff of its own? And that farmers are bearing the brunt of all the dysfunction? How could it be […]

To meet the growing need for high-quality child care in the village of Hamilton, ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ and Chenango Nursery School (CNS) plan to enter into a mutually beneficial partnership. Under the agreement, approved Feb. 2 by the ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ Board of Trustees, the university will purchase the property at 59 W. Kendrick that is presently owned and […]

Late Sunday afternoon, students from the upcoming interfaith spring break trip to Turkey gathered in the chapel basement for a Turkish cooking class. Ayten Ay, the wife of Professor Ahmet Ay, led the class. She is Turkish and brought three recipes to teach the group: sekerpare, a dessert dumpling in a syrup; kisir, a Turkish tabouleh; and […]