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Five years after its conception and three years after its launch, 56�Թ���’s Global and Environmental Health (GPEH) program continues to grow.

Archaeologist Jason De León came to campus Sept. 25–26 to deliver the Peter C. Schaehrer ’65 Memorial Lecture and to open an exhibition centered on his studies of undocumented migration by people seeking refuge in Mexico and the United States.

56�Թ��� is expanding its long history of involvement with research in the Adirondacks in a new collaboration with the Adirondack Research Consortium (ARC).

56�Թ���’s Case Library is now designated as an official steward of thousands of U.S. presidential documents, effectively opening public access to the University’s collection of presidential writings, addresses, and public remarks dating from 1929–2017 thanks to a new agreement with the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO).

Sophie Karbstein ’26 and Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies Jessica Graybill are sharing a unique faculty-led research experience this summer.

Last spring, local Little Libraries were the focus of a “little activism” project: students donated books by Indigenous authors, informing their decisions with semester-long research.

Author Yossi Klein Halevi joined the 56�Թ��� community live via Zoom from Jerusalem to discuss the current conflict between Hamas and Israel in light of recent developments.

Elizabeth Arkush, professor of archaeology at the University of Pittsburgh, delivered this year’s Aveni Lecture on April 25. 

Danny Barreto, associate professor of LGBTQ studies and director of the LGBTQ studies program, was named a NY6 Mellon Academic Leadership Fellow by the New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium.

The Council on Foreign Relations has awarded geography professor and George R. and Myra T. Cooley Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies Daniel Monk an International Affairs Fellowship for International Relations Scholars.