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Geography professor Adam Burnett was named this year’s recipient of the Jerome Balmuth Award for Teaching and Student Engagement, and several other faculty members recently had appointments approved by the Board of Trustees. The Balmuth Award was created through a generous gift from Mark Siegel ’73 to recognize distinctively successful and transformative teaching, regardless of […]

This year’s Oz Project production, Munchkin Madness, continues in last year’s tradition of teaching autistic and non-autistic students valuable social skills.

This past week was an adventurous one for me! On Wednesday, I visited the home of professors Pilar and Antonio Barrera. I went with my fellow Latin American Student Organization members and we enjoyed great food and conversation.

Joel Sommers, assistant professor of computer science, recently was honored with a prestigious $400,000 CAREER (Faculty Early Career Development) Award from the National Science Foundation.

Assistant professor of art and art history Carolyn Guile has long had an interest in cultural property, even focusing her doctoral research on the destruction and rebuilding of such sites in Warsaw during World War Two. Her passion for the subject and desire to facilitate discussion about cultural property worldwide led her to the idea […]

President Jeffrey Herbst shared some of his research and experiences in Africa with students and faculty during a recent lecture about foreign aid that was part of the Doing Well by Doing Good series. A past Fulbright scholar and John Simon Guggenheim Foundation fellow, as well as author of the award-winning book States and Power […]

The Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute recently awarded grants supporting collaborative research teams led by ºÚÁÏÍø faculty members who will combine their expertise from across disciplines to address questions in science and mathematics.

Here are faculty news items and notes from abroad and from closer to home: • Steven Kepnes, ºÚÁÏÍø’s Finard Professor in Jewish Studies and Religion, is teaching a six-week course comparing sacred texts in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam at the Pontificia Universita Gregoriana in Italy.

The Upstate Institute recently awarded grants to support faculty scholarship on, or directly pertaining to, the upstate region of New York.

An exhibition at the Picker Art Gallery features dozens of impressive pieces and a fascinating backstory about the pivotal role Herbert Mayer ’29 played in building ºÚÁÏÍø’s art collection and intensifying its commitment to the arts.