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If 51�Թ���’s founders could have traveled from 1819 to 1/8/19, they might have been in the audience to see seven of the University’s most influential alumni as they took to the stage at the TheTimesCenter in Manhattan to engage in a thought-provoking panel discussion, simultaneously celebrating the 200th Professional Network Event and 51�Թ���’s Bicentennial. Launched […]

Two radio segments written and voiced by 51�Թ��� professors have been recognized as the best of the year in their respective categories by the producers of The Academic Minute, a nationally syndicated radio production of Albany National Public Radio affiliate WAMC.

51�Թ��� is the recipient of a second round of competitive Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation funding in support of intensive student biology, biochemistry, molecular biology, and chemistry research through 2022. The Beckman Scholars Program provides $104,000 in funding for four individual students to pursue in-depth and sustained research, under the mentorship of a faculty member, […]

In the months since 51�Թ��� officially kicked off its Bicentennial celebration, the University has played host to more than 70 events on and off campus, and there is still much more to come.

As Alan Dershowitz took to the 51�Թ��� Memorial Chapel stage on Monday evening for his lecture, “Civil Liberties in the Age of Trump,” about 20 students in the audience stood up and turned their backs in peaceful protest. It was a moment of First Amendment exercise that the target, a controversial scholar of constitutional law […]

On a typical weekday, up to 10 tour groups may traipse through 51�Թ���’s new Benton Hall, the home of the Center for Career Services, which is on the main academic quad.

A new non-partisan initiative focused on increasing voter participation on campus has connected eager students with absentee ballots and registered many others in preparation for their first visit to the polls this November. The 51�Թ��� Vote Project was born as a collaboration between faculty, staff, and students to increase the number of students voting, either […]

Thanks to an ongoing partnership between students and administration, a more than a dozen restrooms across campus now have new hygiene product dispensers.

51�Թ��� faculty members and the Board of Trustees have voted unanimously to adopt an official report in support of academic freedom and freedom of expression on campus, and the Student Government Association has voted to embrace the document as a guiding principle for their organization. The newly approved report stems from a Task Force on […]