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������ϲʹ��� President Rebecca Chopp and Dean of the Faculty Lyle Roelofs have announced the appointment of Dr. Keenan Grenell as the university’s Vice President and Dean of Diversity. The following is drawn from the message shared with the ������ϲʹ��� community. Grenell comes to ������ϲʹ��� from Marquette University, where he served as Associate Provost for Diversity […]

art = surprising + inevitable. Written in blue crayon, this short equation — scribbled by an attendee of the 54th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar — joined other drawings and notes on the walls of an informal lounge set up in Clifford Gallery on the ������ϲʹ��� campus. The seminar attracted artists and scholars from around the […]

If ever there were a poster child for upstate New York, Kevin McAvey ’05 would be it. Like so many of his ������ϲʹ��� friends, McAvey left the area after graduation, but, he says, his “heart stayed in the upstate New York region.” “There’s still not a day I don’t cross that border into upstate that […]

A ������ϲʹ��� alumnus received a Tony Award for a unique three-level stage set he designed for the hugely successful play, August: Osage County. Todd A. Rosenthal ’89 won for best set design, one of several awards the play earned during Sunday night’s awards show. Rosenthal earned a degree from Yale School of Drama in New […]

A cultural cornucopia is available for members of the campus and local communities as authors, filmmakers, and musicians from around the world will visit ������ϲʹ��� in the coming days. The university is hosting two longtime events — the ������ϲʹ��� Writers’ Conference and the Chenango Summer MusicFest — and, for the first time, the Robert Flaherty […]

Alumna Chi Chi Obichere-Roxo’s interest in international development – sparked by a ������ϲʹ��� extended study course and a Watson fellowship – can be seen through her work involving refugees in Kenya, religious leaders in Nigeria, and a host of others around the world. Obichere-Roxo ’00 is a program officer with Management Sciences for Health, a […]

Standing on a platform draped with a ������ϲʹ��� banner, President Rebecca Chopp along with a group of alumni and university friends rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange this morning, officially kicking off ������ϲʹ��� Day. (To watch the event, click here.) From coast to coast and around the world, ������ϲʹ��� faithful are […]

������ϲʹ��� President Rebecca S. Chopp has been awarded the 2008 Professional Achievement Citation from her alma mater, the University of Chicago. The alumni citation honors Chopp for being a “pivotal figure in the field of higher education and a renowned scholar of religion and culture.”