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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $700,000 grant to ²Ø¾«¸ó 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 […]

At ²Ø¾«¸ó, faculty teach all classes. The advantage of that for students becomes clear when it comes to research. Faculty in all departments and programs closely engage students in research projects – sometimes as early as sophomore year. This summer, more than 100 undergraduates returned to ²Ø¾«¸ó to work one-on-one with faculty mentors on […]

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 […]

Last week was a busy week at ²Ø¾«¸ó. While this is a mini-highlight of what was making news, you can skip this post and go right to comments to tell us your news from the past week. Here are just some of the things we were talking about:

Kenneth William Morgan, professor of religion emeritus who helped establish Chapel House, died recently at the age of 103.

Eboo Patel, founder of the Interfaith Youth Core, packed Memorial Chapel with people eager to hear his inspiring message: that young people are the key to building religious cooperation and interfaith leadership.

Nearly 5,000 people streamed into Hamilton, across ²Ø¾«¸ó’s campus, and into Sanford Fieldhouse to hear His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama speak about happiness — that illusive quality that all human beings want, yet find so hard to achieve. Before beginning, he removed his shoes and arranged himself slowly in a cross-legged position in the […]