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Two accomplished alumni have been selected to lead Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø’s Board of Trustees. Denis F. Cronin ’69 was elected chair, and Robert A. Kindler ’76 was named vice chair during the group’s June meeting.

A Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø liberal arts education leads to successful careers, a recent survey shows. A study by PayScale provides concrete evidence that Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø graduates fare very well when considering salaries. The school was ranked ninth overall for median mid-career salaries in a survey of more than 1,000 undergraduate colleges and universities.

Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø President Jeffrey Herbst is among a group of university presidents who are visiting Israel this week. The presidents from around the nation consulted with the trip’s sponsor, Project Interchange, on the program that runs from July 4 -11.

Shortly after announcing her agenda that she hopes will focus New York State’s manufacturing efforts on clean energy and technology, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) stopped at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø to talk to youths about their critical roles in science.

Forget summer break. Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø has spent the days since graduation busily poring over its ledgers, tallying the thanks it owes alumni, parents, and friends for their support in Fiscal Year 2011. The official count, announced today, comes to 39 million — the dollar amount raised from all sources between June 2010 through May 2011.

Last Thursday, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø received a Second Nature Climate Leadership Award in the Baccalaureate category from the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC). At the organization’s Climate Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C., John Pumilio, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø’s sustainability coordinator, and Lyle Roelofs, provost and dean of the faculty, accepted the award on the university’s behalf.

Golfers such as Chip Beck, Andy Bean, Bobby Wadkins, and Syracuse native Jim Roy will be playing at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø’s Seven Oaks Golf Course on Monday for a chance to qualify for the U.S. Senior Open.

The prestigious Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, which is being held this week at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø, is offering free public screenings of two films at 9 tonight at the Hamilton Movie Theater.

(Editor’s Note: Marilyn Hernandez-Stopp ’14 visited China as part of the university’s Benton Scholars Program and writes about her experience.) Now that I am back home, I’ve had a chance to reflect on my trip to China and attempt to readjust to the time difference! For the last week that I was in China, the […]

They came from as far as China and as close as next door. Almost 2,000 alumni and friends, representing the classes of 1941 through 2011, descended on Whitnall Field for Reunion 2011 this past weekend. They temporarily swelled the population of Hamilton and filled campus with vintage Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø spirit.