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During its spring meeting, the ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ University Board of Trustees approved a series of appointments to endowed professorships, effective July 1, 2021.

Assistant Professor of Educational Studies Ashley Taylor has been named the ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ University Phi Eta Sigma Professor of the Year for 2021.

Nancy Ries, professor of anthropology and peace and conflict studies, is this year’s recipient of the Jerome Balmuth Award for Teaching.

Provost and Dean of the Faculty Tracey E. Hucks ’87, MA ’90 will take a sabbatical during the 2021–22 academic year to complete several significant research projects.

Professor Kiko Galvez and colleagues patented a new tech that decodes messages encoded in beams of light that could be the future of the telecom industry.

²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ’s administration and faculty are drawing on national best practices and creating their own innovative approaches to increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion in tenure-stream hiring.  

Join Professor of Mathematics and LGBTQ Studies Ken Valente and Head of Special Collections and University Archives Professor Sarah Keen as they discuss a multi-year digital history project focused on the legacy of LGBTQ students and activism at ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ. 

²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ researchers have found that collaborations between municipalities and colleges may be the key to future climate action planning efforts across rural parts of New York State.

Professor Ahmet Ay and colleagues took a deep dive into a group of genes in zebrafish to figure out why they — and other genes like them — are paired in the genome.

Join Associate Professor of Biology Engda Hagos, who grew up in the Tigray region and still has family there today, to learn more about this conflict and the humanitarian crisis being left in its wake. Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Director of Women’s Studies Susan Thomson also joins the episode to help provide historical background and current geopolitical context to the ongoing situation in this all new episode of 13.