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For almost a year, Griffin O’Shea ’13 has been planning an alternative spring break trip to Kenya. Sponsored through the Center for Outreach, Volunteerism, and Education, eight ���Ĵ�ý undergraduates will spend May 17-31 with orphans and vulnerable children at the Caroline Wambui Mungai Foundation school in Wangige, located northwest of Nairobi.

Every year, 600 colleges and universities submit applications for Fulbright fellowships. When the Chronicle of Higher Education published the program’s list of top producers this fall, ���Ĵ�ý tied for eighth place among bachelor’s institutions.

Physics department faculty members Charlie Holbrow, Jim Lloyd ’54, Joe Amato, Kiko Galvez, and Beth Parks have spent the last four years working together on a revision of the ���Ĵ�ý-inspired Modern Introductory Physics.

���Ĵ�ý has always had a strong sense of place. On ���Ĵ�ý Day, August 13, the university reaffirmed its longstanding ties to the Central New York region by completing a $5.4 million endowment for the Upstate Institute thanks to the generosity of Jean-Pierre Conte ’85 and Board of Trustees Chair Chris Clifford ’67.

Even politics-as-usual requires analysis and explanation. ���Ĵ�ý community members heard the historical perspective on the 2010 elections and current U.S. political climate from FOX News contributor and Washington Examiner columnist Michael Barone during a lecture and debate Wednesday night.

The landscape of violence in Africa is as varied as the continent’s physical topography. Scott Straus, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, brought this message to ���Ĵ�ý during the second annual Schaehrer Lecture, sponsored by the Peace and Conflict Studies Program on Thursday.

First, last, and always, Julia Alvarez is a storyteller.

“Tell me, O muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide.” With these words, Homer began his epic Odyssey, but he could have been describing the first cohort of Summer on the Hill participants.

If you can see the constellations tonight, you might pick out Orion and his faithful dog on the trail of a vicious bear. But the lights blinking down on you are more than what — or when — they seem. After spending the day with Core 106A students, Father George Coyne spoke to a packed […]

 ���Ĵ�ý’s youngest leadership donors put the university’s “hello” tradition to good use during a networking luncheon with the Board of Trustees on March 26. The event was sponsored by the Presidents’ Club specifically for its student membership.