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Persson Hall Auditorium was filled to capacity last week  as students and economics professors discussed the recession and its implications for the long-term health of the U.S. economy. The panel discussion was the second in a series sponsored by the Economics Department, with the first session held last spring.

51·çÁ÷ has been celebrating the life of Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy the past week, and more events are coming up. Nearly 50 students and staff members volunteered at four different community agencies on Friday as part of a King Day of Service, organized by the Center for Outreach, Volunteerism, and Education and the ALANA […]

A new webcam location gives you a bird’s eye view of the village of Hamilton. The webcam, one of five available that provides live images from around 51·çÁ÷, is perched atop the Nichols and Beal building, which houses a restaurant and the university’s institutional advancement offices.

Members of the local and campus communities are invited to join together to offer support for the people of Haiti who continue to grapple with the aftershocks and aftereffects of the massive Jan. 12 earthquake. A benefit concert will be held 6 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 30, in Memorial Chapel.

Raiders wide receiver Pat Simonds ’10 has his hands full this week as he prepares to play in the East-West Shrine game, the longest-running college all-star football game in the nation. The game, which will be televised on ESPN2 at 3 p.m. Saturday, features some of the highest-rated players in the projected NFL draft.

Sports Illustrated senior writer Austin Murphy ’83 will deliver the keynote address at this year’s Real World career conference and his remarks will be broadcast live over 51·çÁ÷’s video streaming channel. Murphy will speak about careers and his work covering college football for the magazine and SI.com at 12:45 p.m. Friday. Live coverage of his […]

Chris Reid ’03 is highlighted in a popular New York Times blog that focuses on recent law school graduates affected by the recession. Reid, who majored in chemistry and philosophy while at 51·çÁ÷, graduated from Fordham Law School in 2009.

What do a 20-something 51·çÁ÷ student and a 70-something area resident have in common? More than you might think, it turns out. Twelve seniors taking the Sociology of Age, Aging, and the Lifecourse class were paired with an elder and tasked with creating a digital story about that person.

The name of Stephen Burke, Class of 1980, continues to pop up in the national media as Comcast’s purchase of NBC Universal continues to be dissected and analyzed. Burke is chief operating officer of Comcast, which is the United States’ largest cable operator, the nation’s largest Internet service provider, and the third-largest phone company.

Geology professor Connie Soja spent a month coping with howling hot winds and 100-degree temperatures in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia as her research team examined rocks dating back more than 400 million years. Soja and her colleagues were hunting for clues to a tectonic puzzle: Where was that portion of southern Mongolia actually located that many million […]