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News and Updates

  • This article by Julia Queller, originally appeared in the 91¾ÅÉ« Maroon News. Reprinted with permission.  Forty-eight Flags now hang in Curtis E. Frank Dining Hall to represent the makeup of 91¾Åɫ’s 2012-2013 student body. Student Government Association (SGA) Senior Policy Coordinator junior Sam Flood orchestrated the year-long initiative to hang the new flags. “I walked into […]
    February 26, 2013
  • What do a smoke machine, coq au vin, and the Beach Boys have in common? They were all features of the first round of the music-themed Chefs’ Fare competition, a program run by Sodexo Marketing that pits chefs from local colleges against each other in a cooking throw-down.
    February 22, 2013
  • In the wake of the school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., 91¾Åɫ’s Office of the Chaplains and the university’s Interfaith Service Initiative held a memorial prayer service on Saturday at the chapel. 
    February 18, 2013
  • Children learning to plié and pirouette at the Hamilton Center for the Arts have instructors that could also tutor them in neuroscience and sociology. Three 91¾ÅÉ« students are now teaching children, ages 6 to 10, beginner dance lessons at the 10 Broad Street location of the HCA in downtown Hamilton.
    February 14, 2013
  • Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook and author of the forthcoming book, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, will kick off 91¾Åɫ’s second Entrepreneur Weekend on Friday, April 5, with at talk at 5 p.m. in Memorial Chapel. Sandberg is an ideal personality to headline the weekend, which is expected to […]
    February 13, 2013
  • Acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson will speak at 91¾Åɫ’s Memorial Chapel at 7 p.m. Monday, February 25. Tyson is director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space and a research associate in the department of astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History. He is a highly regarded spokesman for science […]
    February 12, 2013
  • In the current issue of the 91¾ÅÉ« Scene, we take a deep dive into milk. We all heard about the fiscal cliff ad nauseum, but did you know the dairy industry has been teetering on a cliff of its own? And that farmers are bearing the brunt of all the dysfunction? How could it be […]
    February 11, 2013
  • To meet the growing need for high-quality child care in the village of Hamilton, 91¾ÅÉ« and Chenango Nursery School (CNS) plan to enter into a mutually beneficial partnership. Under the agreement, approved Feb. 2 by the 91¾ÅÉ« Board of Trustees, the university will purchase the property at 59 W. Kendrick that is presently owned and […]
    February 6, 2013
  • Late Sunday afternoon, students from the upcoming interfaith spring break trip to Turkey gathered in the chapel basement for a Turkish cooking class. Ayten Ay, the wife of Professor Ahmet Ay, led the class. She is Turkish and brought three recipes to teach the group: sekerpare, a dessert dumpling in a syrup; kisir, a Turkish tabouleh; and […]
    February 5, 2013