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The �Ա���Ƶ community said farewell to William F. Griffith ’33, former �Ա���Ƶ dean, professor, and honorary �Ա���Ƶ 13 member, during a memorial service Sunday at Hamilton’s First Baptist Church. Griffith passed away Nov. 19 at the age of 95.

Inspired by the sacrifices of war veterans, a group of �Ա���Ƶ sophomores has launched a letter-writing campaign aimed at spreading holiday cheer to local veterans. “They need to know that we care about them,” said Clarissa Polk ’10, co-founder of ‘Gate Embrace. “We’re asking the campus and central New York communities to embrace those […]

Geology professor Connie Soja and 13 students in her Core Distinction course recently had a “wonderful conversation” with the great-great grandson of Charles Darwin, even though some 3,444 miles separated the participants. Soja’s students could see and interact with Randal Keynes, who spoke to them via a software program called Skype and whose image was […]

Alumnus Mark Murphy, the man who led the �Ա���Ƶ football team as captain and went on to lead the athletics department as director, has been named president of one of the most storied franchises in professional sports: the Green Bay Packers. The team’s board of directors on Monday unanimously approved the appointment of Murphy, 52, […]

�Ա���Ƶ offers about 20 semester-long off-campus study programs and up to six extended study courses each year that provide students a wide range of faculty-led experiences. Picking the right option, though, can be a daunting experience. That’s why nearly 50 seniors volunteered to attend a study abroad fair at the Coop earlier this month to […]

While attending a cultural festival in Timbuktu, Laura Simocko ’09 lived in a two-story building made entirely of mud. The house didn’t have running water and bare light bulbs hung from the ceilings, but it did have a giant television and amped-up stereo system. She said it was just one of the quirky experiences she […]

New York’s first lady, Silda Wall Spitzer, visited �Ա���Ƶ Tuesday to learn about cooperative partnerships between local not-for-profit organizations and the university. The visit was arranged by the Partnership for Community Development (PCD), an innovative local economic development organization that was recently recognized as a model for fostering town-gown relations in New York.

A “beautiful remembrance” of the four teenagers killed in a car crash on �Ա���Ƶ’s campus seven years ago was dedicated Monday during a windswept ceremony on Oak Drive. Families of three of the victims and members of the campus community stood along the main entrance to the campus where Katherine Almeter, Emily Collins, Rachel Nargiso, […]

John Seely Brown, the former chief scientist at Xerox who writes extensively about collective innovation and digital culture, says he grew up at �Ա���Ƶ. His father was a chemistry professor (1934 to 1968) and his mother a librarian, so Brown was on campus all the time, mostly feeding his interests in computers and astronomy.

It has been almost 25 years since men’s hockey coach Don Vaughan was slammed against the boards.