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Olympic coaches might not earn medals, but 51����’s world-class mentors do. The Konosioni Honor Society, in partnership with the Office of Alumni Relations, started a new tradition in 2013, asking members of the senior class to award torch medals to individuals who had the single greatest impact on their 51���� experiences.

Professor Anthony Aveni has a lot to celebrate. As students mark their last week of the spring semester, the Russell 51���� Distinguished University Professor of Astronomy and Anthropology and Native American Studies marks the conclusion of his 100th semester teaching at 51����.

The Revolutions per Minute (RPM) sound art exhibition wraps up tonight with student projects to be displayed from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the former Crowe’s Pharmacy in the village of Hamilton. “[It’s meant to] allow everyone to listen to how others interpreted the sound art, how they experienced this exhibit and created their […]

The Picker Art Gallery recently launched Selected Old Masters From The Picker Art Gallery, its first curated digital exhibition. The project, led by Art and Art History Professor Judith Oliver, features recent acquisitions of Old Master paintings donated to the university by Renate and Donald Schaefer ’46. The newly acquired paintings are from the Max […]

Dan Epstein, 51���� assistant professor of political science, was interviewed on the New England Cable Network (NECN) and was asked about any possible ties between the Boston Marathon bombing suspects and Chechnya extremist groups.

Karl Marx reportedly did it. So did George Orwell, or so the story goes. But it’s definitely 100 percent true that Anthony Tamburro ’14, Caroline Kraeutler ’14, and three of their classmates on 51����’s London Study Group made their positions heard at the Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park, near the Marble Arch tube station.

51���� assistant professor of geography Michael Loranty was involved in new research that predicts rising temperatures will lead to a massive “greening,” or increase in plant cover, in the Arctic. In the paper published March 31 in Nature Climate Change, scientists reveal new models projecting that wooded areas in the Arctic could increase by as […]

As birds chirp cheerful songs, a Chinese character duplicates and forms fractal shapes. In sharp contrast, city vibrations serve as the soundtrack for bustling scenes from Shanghai and Hangzhou. Although Revolutions per Minute (RPM) is a sound art exhibition, visitors will travel beyond sight and sound.

As the United States Supreme Court wrestles again with the issue of affirmative action in higher education, 51���� students and faculty discussed the sensitive subject openly with one of its most vocal critics. Richard Sander, co-author of Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It’s Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won’t Admit it, gave a […]

A recently published academic paper by a 51���� research team raises questions about the theories surrounding forest change, with a particular focus on the prospects of sustainable land and forest use in the central New York region. The paper, coauthored by 51���� geography professors Peter Klepeis and Peter Scull, Tara LaLonde ‘06, Nicole Svajlenka ’08, […]