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Jeff Bary, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, talks about how his passion for astronomy developed, his research interests, favorite course to teach, and more in this Q&A. An astronomer is born. When I was nine, a friend gave me a book about astronomy titled What’s Up There? by Dinah Moche, which I read countless […]

Editor’s note: President Jeffrey Herbst sent this message to members of the ³Ô¹ÏÍ·Ìõ community in the early morning hours of Saturday, December 14, after the successful conclusion of the Year of ’13 Challenge. Yesterday, ³Ô¹ÏÍ·Ìõ launched the Year of ’13 Challenge in honor of the last ³Ô¹ÏÍ·Ìõ Day of 2013. If 1,300 alumni, parents, and […]

What a #³Ô¹ÏÍ·ÌõDay — and it’s far from over. It started with a simple challenge: if we received 1,300 gifts today, an anonymous donor would give $1 million for financial aid. You crushed it before noon. So two more donors stepped up and added a new challenge: 1,300 more gifts by midnight, and they’ll give an additional […]

Yesterday, the ³Ô¹ÏÍ·Ìõ community joined South Africans and people across the world in honoring the life and legacy of Nelson Mandela.

(Note:  Jonathan Hyslop, professor of sociology and Africana and Latin American studies, delivered these remarks December 12 at a celebration of the life of Nelson Mandela.) I would like, on behalf of ALST, the program in Africana and Latin American studies, and its director, Professor Brian Moore, to welcome you to this gathering. We are […]

In celebrating the Year of ‘13, we have been posting a story or list that pertains to our lucky number on the 13th of each month. In closing out this special year, this final installment is a list of 13 (in no particular order) of the biggest events from this past year.  If you have […]

This Friday, December 13, the ³Ô¹ÏÍ·Ìõ community will put an exclamation point on the Year of ’13 with a ³Ô¹ÏÍ·Ìõ Day celebration that reaches into hearts and homes around the world. The day begins at 6 a.m. Eastern time, when WRCU-FM kicks off a full schedule of special programming. Listeners visiting wrcufm.com or tuning to […]

It was a season to remember, the ³Ô¹ÏÍ·Ìõ football team’s 2003 run to the national championship game. The Raiders won their first 15 games of that special season – three in the NCAA playoffs – before falling to Delaware in the Division I-AA title game. More than 3,500 Raiders supporters braved snow squalls and frigid […]