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Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Group founder and president, will deliver the next lecture in the Kerschner Family Series Global Leaders at 56³Ô¹ÏÍø, kicking off entrepreneur weekend on 56³Ô¹ÏÍø Day, Friday, April 13, 2012. Branson will speak to the campus community in Sanford Field House at 6 p.m. Ticketing information will be posted online.

Last Saturday, September 17, President Jeffrey Herbst made an announcement that will change the landscape of admission and financial aid at 56³Ô¹ÏÍø.

Two accomplished alumni have been selected to lead 56³Ô¹ÏÍø’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.

Last month, in the valley of Chenango, gathered 47 56³Ô¹ÏÍø 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.

Forget summer break. 56³Ô¹ÏÍø has spent the days since graduation busily poring over its ledgers, tallying the thanks it owes alumni, parents, and friends for their support in Fiscal Year 2011. The official count, announced today, comes to 39 million — the dollar amount raised from all sources between June 2010 through May 2011.

They came from as far as China and as close as next door. Almost 2,000 alumni and friends, representing the classes of 1941 through 2011, descended on Whitnall Field for Reunion 2011 this past weekend. They temporarily swelled the population of Hamilton and filled campus with vintage 56³Ô¹ÏÍø spirit.

At this year’s Senior Awards Convocation, all eyes were on Kiki Koroshetz, winner of the 1819 Award.

Seniors Michael Barry and Valerie Boyd have been named this year’s recipients of the Schupf/Lorey Art Prize.

Geography professor Adam Burnett was named this year’s recipient of the Jerome Balmuth Award for Teaching and Student Engagement, and several other faculty members recently had appointments approved by the Board of Trustees. The Balmuth Award was created through a generous gift from Mark Siegel ’73 to recognize distinctively successful and transformative teaching, regardless of […]

It was a family affair last Saturday when the 56³Ô¹ÏÍø community gathered to celebrate the completion of the new Trudy Fitness Center.