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“Revolutions per Minute,” an innovative Chinese sound-art exhibition being organized at ���Ĵ�ý by Wenhua Shi, assistant professor of art and art history, was featured today in the New York Times Arts Beat blog. The post also will appear on Mar. 4 in print as an Arts, Briefly, item.

Do you want to flex your creative muscles and have a chance to become the next YouTube sensation? Then join other students and take part in the ���Ĵ�ý 48-Hour Film Challenge. No experience is necessary for this weekend competition that will result in the accepted entries being screened at Hamilton Theater in the village and […]

Buildings develop personalities over time. Lathrop Hall, built in 1905, has a long, rich history and its share of quirks and secrets (some that are now revealed!). A mainstay of the Academic Quad, the building has undergone a major personality change. Those entering for the first time will be amazed at the renovated classroom and […]

Five hundred feet above the ground. A street corner in Harlem. These are just two of the many places “Beyond ���Ĵ�ý” that students have been in recent weeks. The program, jointly funded by the university and ���Ĵ�ý alumni, enables students to apply classroom material to situations and locations beyond campus boundaries. Each semester, about a […]

Douglas A. Hicks, provost and dean of the faculty, announced the selection of Anja Chávez as director of university museums for ���Ĵ�ý, effective May 1. She will direct the Picker Art Gallery and Longyear Museum of Anthropology, as well as the university’s envisioned Center for Art and Culture.

Donald L. Berry, Harry Emerson Fosdick Professor of philosophy and religion emeritus, who introduced one of the nation’s first college courses to explore the implications of the Holocaust for Jewish and Christian theology, passed away on Tuesday, January 15, at home in Hamilton, N.Y. He was 87 years old. Berry, who retired from the ���Ĵ�ý […]

���Ĵ�ý students taking The Land of Israel extended study course visited historic Beit Guvrin, January 3. Students participated in an archaeological dig, toured the site, and took part in a study session about the Bar Kochba revolt. The group is led by Steven Kepnes, Murray W. and Mildred K. Finard professor in Jewish studies and […]

Students in extended study courses left for Israel and Egypt this week to further explore concepts developed in their classrooms during the fall semester at ���Ĵ�ý. Both courses, Living Egypt and The Land of Israel, focus on deep historical understanding of culture in the respective countries, and how the past has influenced where each nation […]

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $700,000 grant to ���Ĵ�ý for use over four years, to support a new program of Mellon Sophomore Residential Seminars. The initiative will create a series of courses — to be offered every year for a substantial number of sophomores — in which students will live and study […]

“Blue Rondo a la Turk” starts at the 6:40 mark Jazz aficionados around the world are mourning the death yesterday of composer, pianist, and bandleader Dave Brubeck. Just this fall, the ���Ĵ�ý Orchestra joined the plethora of artists who have covered Brubeck’s work when the brass and percussion sections opened the October concert with […]