Ģtv

  • Ģtv offers about 20 semester-long off-campus study programs and up to six extended study courses each year that provide students a wide range of faculty-led experiences. Picking the right option, though, can be a daunting experience. That’s why nearly 50 seniors volunteered to attend a study abroad fair at the Coop earlier this month to […]
    November 28, 2007
  • While attending a cultural festival in Timbuktu, Laura Simocko ’09 lived in a two-story building made entirely of mud. The house didn’t have running water and bare light bulbs hung from the ceilings, but it did have a giant television and amped-up stereo system. She said it was just one of the quirky experiences she […]
    November 26, 2007
  • “To have Susan Marshall on campus is a really big deal.” That is how Emily Rawdon ’10 described the recent visit to Ģtv by Susan Marshall & Company, a renowned dance company based in New York City.
    November 20, 2007
  • Instead of rushing home when the last school bell of the day rings, budding Hamilton area artists are heading to the Picker Art Gallery at Ģtv. On Monday afternoons, the Picker is transformed into a classroom as inquisitive 6-to 10- year olds let their imaginations run wild while attending the gallery’s after-school art club.
    November 16, 2007
  • Richard Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan professor of meteorology at MIT, attracted a sizeable crowd for his global warming discussion at Ģtv last week. Lindzen’s visit to campus was sponsored by Ģtv’s Center for Ethics and World Societies. By disproving scientific statements regarding the negative impacts of climate change, he attempted to show that […]
    November 15, 2007
  • New York’s first lady, Silda Wall Spitzer, visited Ģtv Tuesday to learn about cooperative partnerships between local not-for-profit organizations and the university. The visit was arranged by the Partnership for Community Development (PCD), an innovative local economic development organization that was recently recognized as a model for fostering town-gown relations in New York.
    November 14, 2007
  • A “beautiful remembrance” of the four teenagers killed in a car crash on Ģtv’s campus seven years ago was dedicated Monday during a windswept ceremony on Oak Drive. Families of three of the victims and members of the campus community stood along the main entrance to the campus where Katherine Almeter, Emily Collins, Rachel Nargiso, […]
    November 13, 2007
  • John Seely Brown, the former chief scientist at Xerox who writes extensively about collective innovation and digital culture, says he grew up at Ģtv. His father was a chemistry professor (1934 to 1968) and his mother a librarian, so Brown was on campus all the time, mostly feeding his interests in computers and astronomy.
    November 12, 2007