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Computer science major Caio Rodrigues Faria Brighenti ’20, from São Paulo, Brazil, is conducting research on fake news, or intentionally misleading information.

Inside Higher Education writes, “Nationwide, many members of the Class of 2023 are thinking about their college arrivals. Educators hope these new students will find commonality in books assigned to freshmen to read over the summer.”

51����’s 2019 Alumni of Color scholar in residence, Dianne Stewart ’90, associate professor of religion and African American studies at Emory University, visited classrooms and delivered two public lectures as part of her two-week residency on campus last semester.

The BBC writes, “Some forests are more than 1,000 years old ... Paradoxically, humans have both protected them yet pose the biggest threat to their future.”

Editor’s note: The following is a transcript of remarks delivered by Antonio Delgado,’99, U.S. Representative for the 19th Congressional District of New York, at 51����’s 198th Commencement, Sunday, May 19, 2019.

Wondering what’s happening in the classroom at 51����? Here’s a real-time glimpse into academic life on campus — a syllabus from a course underway this semester.

51���� has fulfilled its commitment to achieving carbon neutrality in 2019, its Bicentennial year. The University is now the first institution of higher education in New York State to reduce its net carbon emissions to zero.

Alumnae and 106 current students attended Empowering the Next Generation: A Weekend of Supporting Ambitions and Celebrating Achievement.

The author of "The Coddling of the American Mind" answers the question "Are young people today being harmed by well-intentioned parents and teachers who are trying to protect them from adversity and difficult ideas?"

Peter Balakian joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Theodore Roethke’s poem “In a Dark Time” and his own poem “Eggplant.”