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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 �鶹��Ʒ […]

“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 �鶹��Ʒ Orchestra joined the plethora of artists who have covered Brubeck’s work when the brass and percussion sections opened the October concert with […]

Roy Simon Bryce-Laporte, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of sociology and anthropology emeritus, passed away after a long illness in Upper Marlboro, Md., on Monday, July 30, at the age of 78. Born in the Republic of Panama of West Indian ancestry, Bryce-Laporte earned degrees from Panama Canal College (AA), the University of […]

Dewey Mosby, director emeritus of �鶹��Ʒ’s Picker Art Gallery, died yesterday, August 1, of pulmonary issues at Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, N.Y., at the age of 70.

On a hot afternoon in July, young children are sifting through clothing, household items, food, and toiletries in the Caring Corner at the Tabernacle Baptist Church in Utica. Their families, mostly Karen refugees from Burma, are the newest, but largest, percentage of the church’s congregation. “Because the kids are the ones who speak English, many […]

An exhaustive seven-year project by Nigel Young, who was Cooley Professor of peace studies and director of the Peace Studies Program at �鶹��Ʒ from 1984 to 2004, has received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, in the Award for Scholarship category.

Former �鶹��Ʒ professor Arnold A. Sio, a forerunner in teaching race relations at the university level, passed away June 29 in Kingston, N.Y. He was 93.

On this crisp November morning, beneath a bright, cloudless sky, a gathering at “Katie’s Garden” near �鶹��Ʒ Memorial Chapel marked the 10th anniversary of the tragic crash on Oak Drive that took the lives of four young people. Katherine Almeter, a �鶹��Ʒ first-year student, her high-school friends Emily Collins and Rachel Nargiso, and Kevin King […]

Thirty students got to witness firsthand the Muslim liturgy and prayer they had learned about in Georgia Frank’s Introduction to Religion course when they attended congregational prayers at the Bosnian Islamic Association of Utica. The group, joined by Islamic studies professor Aaron Spevack of Hamilton College, listened to the imam’s sermon (in English) and observed […]

On Thursday, students who have been studying a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel got to hear straight from the horse’s mouth just what it took to write it — and ask him detailed questions about what intrigued, confused, or enlightened them in their reading of his book. Jeffrey Eugenides, author of Middlesex, spent 75 minutes with the […]