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  • Bob Fullilove '66 speaks at an MLK Week workshop. He is associate dean for community and minority affairs and professor of clinical sociomedical sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University. (Photo by Erica Hasenjager)
    Benjamin Todd Jealous, the youngest president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, provided listeners with a roadmap for successful organizing during his MLK Week keynote address on Thursday night. Jealous’s talk at Memorial Chapel was titled “The Rise, Fall and Rise of Social Movements.” “This is normally a talk […]
    January 24, 2014
  • Marshall Scott '14
    (Editor’s Note: This speech was given by Marshall Scott ’14 at the opening ceremony in Memorial Chapel for MLK Week. Scott is from Virginia Beach, Va., and majors in sociology.) Last August, we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and today in remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. we take a […]
    January 24, 2014
  • Join us from January 20 - 24, 2014, as we celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
    The USA Today College section featured an interview with Thomas Cruz-Soto, associate dean of multicultural affairs at ±«Óătv. The article is called “College students revolutionize meaning of MLK Day,” and it talks about the changing message of Martin Luther King Jr.
    January 22, 2014
  • advent of the atomic bomb
    Alumni ranging from the Class of 1952 through 2013 will be interacting with each other and with current students through an online academic project based on The Advent of the Atomic Bomb course taught by Associate Professor of Geology Karen Harpp. More than 330 alumni have signed up so far (registration remains open) for the […]
    January 17, 2014
  • The New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium has been awarded a three-year $1.25 million grant by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support new collaborations in the areas of globalization and language learning. The six consortium members are ±«Óătv, Hamilton College, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, St. Lawrence University, Skidmore College, and Union College. […]
    January 8, 2014
  • Oswald A. Honkalehto
    Oswald (Ozzie) A. Honkalehto, professor of economics emeritus who taught at ±«Óătv from 1962 to 1995, died Sunday, December 29, 2013, at Bassett Medical Center in Cooperstown, N.Y. Honkalehto taught courses in macroeconomics, statistics, econometrics, and the department’s honors seminar, which he originated.  He also was  responsible for developing the mathematical economics concentration soon after […]
    January 6, 2014
  • (Editor’s Note:  ±«Óătv President Jeffrey Herbst is a co-signer of this statement.) We the presidents of the six schools that make up the New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium (±«Óătv, Hamilton College, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Skidmore College, St. Lawrence University, Union College) reject the call for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions […]
    January 2, 2014