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Standing on a platform draped with a ����ý banner, President Rebecca Chopp along with a group of alumni and university friends rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange this morning, officially kicking off ����ý Day. (To watch the event, click here.) From coast to coast and around the world, ����ý faithful are […]

����ý University President Rebecca S. Chopp has been awarded the 2008 Professional Achievement Citation from her alma mater, the University of Chicago. The alumni citation honors Chopp for being a “pivotal figure in the field of higher education and a renowned scholar of religion and culture.”

Triskaidekafanatics unite — Friday the 13th is ����ý Day! The excitement starts at 9:29 a.m. (EST) June 13 in New York City when 13 ����ý alumni will ring the morning bell at the New York Stock Exchange (watch it live here). ����ý fever will certainly sweep the globe, as alumni wear ����ý garb to work, […]

Vic Mansfield, a longtime professor of physics and astronomy who helped lead an insightful workshop during the recent campus visit by the Dalai Lama, died Tuesday after a two-year battle with lymphoma. He was 67. Mansfield joined the ����ý faculty in 1973, armed with a doctorate in theoretical astrophysics from Cornell University and burning interests […]

It was early, 9 a.m. on Friday, but not too early for ����ý alumni to jump into a discussion about beliefs and explore the question: Does God exist? It seems that some things, like an evocative classroom discussion with a faculty member, never change at ����ý. Associate professor of philosophy David Dudrick led the conversation […]

(Note: These are remarks delivered by Lesley Stahl at ����ý University’s 187th commencement, May 18, 2008) Thank you. Well first of all I’m so sorry that you’re all wet and cold. I’m watching you put on your ponchos; I hope that makes it a little better. So now I am a member of the Class […]

“Nothing is wasted.” That was the slogan of this year’s annual campus salvage operation organized by ����ý’s Center for Outreach, Volunteerism, and Education (COVE). Volunteers collected items that ����ý students either donated or left behind after moving out of residence halls. They are then given to nonprofit organizations in the greater Hamilton area and in […]

At a time when many small-town movie houses have gone dark, the Hamilton Theater — once on the brink of closing — is thriving now more than ever. The movie theater remains a fixture of Hamilton in an era of mega-multiplexes and Netflix, according to The Post-Standard (Syracuse).