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Community Service

  • The news has been inundated with stories about refugees — in the United States and abroad. With a burgeoning refugee community in Utica (approximately one-fourth of the population is made up of refugee families), which is located less than 30 miles from the ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ campus, students and professors are finding ways to help.
    September 30, 2015
  • When Rev. Gay Clark Jennings ’74 was a student in ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ’s first graduating class of women, she was part of historic change. A varsity volleyball player, she pressed the university’s president for equal medical benefits for female athletes under Title IX; investigated grocery store price gouging in Madison County’s poorest areas; and marched against the […]
    May 18, 2015
  • Today is ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ Day of Impact. There is still time to register at ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ.edu/DayofImpact. Below is a list of some of the 1,500+ events that are happening today.  View them all here. Abigail Gilman ’19, an incoming first-year student registered and wrote: “For my first ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ Day (Class of 2019!) I will be donating blood for the […]
    March 13, 2015
  • ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ President Jeffrey Herbst and Hamilton Mayor Margaret Miller spoke about the cooperation that led to the introduction of natural gas to the campus and community. (Photo by Dylan Crouse '15)
    A renovated heating plant that for the first time will use natural gas as a fuel option will significantly reduce the university’s carbon footprint and provide increased flexibility for heating campus in the years ahead. In about two weeks, after a series of diagnostic tests, the university will deploy two new boilers that replaced three […]
    October 29, 2014
  • Giving back to the community often involves application of old-fashioned elbow grease, but sometimes it’s also a good game of kickball accompanied by a big smile and laughter. A new video captures a few moments during an August 21 day of service in Utica in which nearly 40 first-year students pitched in to help nonprofit […]
    September 14, 2014
  • ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ introduced its sixth professional network on April 1 during a reception at the Longview Gallery in Washington, D.C. The Common Good Network, representing alumni across the nonprofit and public service sectors, is the fourth network launched this academic year, following on the heels of finance, digital media and technology, and health and wellness. The […]
    April 7, 2014
  • Don’t let the cold keep you at home this week! Here’s some of the events going on around campus. Recently, Typhoon Haiyan devastated the Philippines, wreaking havoc on the Filipino people. With millions homeless and in need the ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ community has been chipping in to help the relief effort. Phi Delta Theta is sponsoring a […]
    December 8, 2013
  • This is an excerpt from an article by John Williams ’10  about his 2 1/2 years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Suriname. It appears in the autumn ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ Scene. Surrounded by impenetrable walls of tropical rainforest, perched in the stern of my dug-out canoe, I paddle leisurely downriver one early morning. Ligorio, a remote […]
    November 6, 2013