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Here Alone, an independent film by Rod Blackhurst ’02, won the Tribeca Film Festival’s Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature last week. Entertainment magazine described the production as “a taut, lean, unfussy film about a lone woman surviving in the wild woods of upstate New York.” Meanwhile, Maxim magazine wrote that the “Tribeca film festival proves the zombie […]

An exemplary student and a fierce advocate for LGBTQ awareness and promoting positive sexuality, Providence A. Ryan ’16, a biology and philosophy double major from Schenectady, N.Y., is the 2016 recipient of ���ϳԹ�’s highest student honor, the 1819 Award. The 1819 Award is given annually to one student representing character, sportsmanship, scholarship, and service above […]

Editor’s note: Wondering what’s happening in the classroom at ���ϳԹ�? Here’s a real-time glimpse into academic life on campus — a syllabus from a course underway this semester. FMST 352 “Horror” and the American Horror Film Kevin Wynter, visiting assistant professor of Film & Media Studies TR 2:45–4:00, 105 Little Hall Course description: This course […]

Editor’s note: Wondering what’s happening in the classroom at ���ϳԹ�? Here’s a real-time glimpse into academic life on campus — a syllabus from a course underway this semester. POSC 390 Silent Warfare: Intelligence Analysis and Statecraft Danielle Lupton, Assistant Professor of Political Science MW 1:20-2:35, Persson 133 Course Description: This course introduces students to the […]

With a pair of new books out in 2015 — one a collection of his essays; the other, new poems — poet and English professor Peter Balakian unpacks, among other things, how language can, in his words, “ingest” the violence of history. The author of the New York Times–bestselling The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and […]

Peter Balakian, the Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor in humanities, professor of English, and director of creative writing at ���ϳԹ�, has won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Ozone Journal, his collection of poems published last year by University of Chicago Press. In making the announcement, the Pulitzer committee cited the collection’s […]

Ranissa Adityavarman ’16, an international relations major from Manlius, N.Y., is one of just 30 students nationwide to be named a 2016 Rangel Fellow, which provides financial and professional development support for graduate studies and to help facilitate entry into a career with the U.S. Foreign Service. The Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Program, formed […]

This year’s Konosioni Senior Honor Society charity auction raised a record-breaking amount — more than $32,000 — for local organizations. The 19th annual event, which coincided with Entrepreneurship Weekend on April 8, drew parents, alumni, and students.