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Maggie Dunne’ 13 was featured in a recent web article about her unflagging commitment to assisting children at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

While most people know that ³Ô¹ÏÍ·Ìõ’s undergraduate population has become increasingly international, it may come as a surprise that so many young people, in their formative middle school and high school years, travel across oceans to come to campus.

As the debt-limit debate went into hyperdrive after news of a deal filtered out of the nation’s capital on Sunday night, ³Ô¹ÏÍ·Ìõ economics professor Thomas Michl urged political leaders to tone down the demagoguery and focus on the real issue at hand: creating jobs.

Robert Simpson ’97 has been chosen by N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo to help lead a new organization tasked with better coordinating economic development opportunities in central New York.

Two accomplished alumni have been selected to lead ³Ô¹ÏÍ·Ìõ’s Board of Trustees. Denis F. Cronin ’69 was elected chair, and Robert A. Kindler ’76 was named vice chair during the group’s June meeting.

A ³Ô¹ÏÍ·Ìõ liberal arts education leads to successful careers, a recent survey shows. A study by PayScale provides concrete evidence that ³Ô¹ÏÍ·Ìõ graduates fare very well when considering salaries. The school was ranked ninth overall for median mid-career salaries in a survey of more than 1,000 undergraduate colleges and universities.

Former ³Ô¹ÏÍ·Ìõ 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.

Last month, in the valley of Chenango, gathered 47 ³Ô¹ÏÍ·Ìõ alumni, parents, and friends. Leaving behind jobs, bills, and Glee reruns, they became students again, taking classes with some of the university’s leading professors during Summer on the Hill, June 22-26.