Princeton fellow explores link between biology, political science
Adaptability isn’t just important to evolutionary biology, said Dominic Johnson on Monday; it is important consider in political science, too. History becomes more predictable when it’s viewed through...
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Students sang along in English and Chinese Monday night as they learned about the impact of Western culture on the Chinese theater. The lecture, “Musical Theatre in China”, was a family affair as two...
View ArticleAttorney advises on patent law
Students went to the engineering building Thursday evening seeking legal advice and aeronautical knowledge. Patent attorney Leland D. Schultz framed the lecture through the story of the Wright...
View ArticlePolitical Analyst discusses game-changing moments
While many political analysts look for the game-changers of the 2012 presidential election, one professor at George Washington University said it was just more of the same. John Sides, an associate...
View ArticleUPDATING: Obama to visit Binghamton University
Doors will open at 10:30 a.m. Friday for President Obama’s town hall-style talk at the Binghamton University Old Union. Students, faculty and staff interested in attending can enter their names in a...
View ArticlePresident visits Binghamton University in upstate tour
In response to a climbing national student debt paired with a discrepancy between college loans and post-graduate income, President Barack Obama developed a proposal to better align college costs with...
View ArticleObama unveils plan to cut college costs
During his two-day bus trip around upstate New York and northern Pennsylvania last week, which included a town hall-style event at Binghamton University, President Barack Obama unveiled a new plan to...
View ArticleNorth Korean refugee recounts escape
The atrocities that occur in North Korea can sometimes seem like fiction from halfway across the globe, but for Chulryong Seo they are a harsh reality. Seo, a 24-year-old North Korean refugee, spoke on...
View ArticleResident assistants excite audience with science
A small crowd gathered Friday evening at Hinman Dining Hall for a lighthearted showcase of a topic many college students find mysterious and daunting: physics. Resident assistants Margarita Kraynova...
View ArticleEvoS talks links Neandertals to modern man
According to one professor, the average person could have more in common with a Neandertal than with their great-great-grandparents. Trenton Holliday, professor of anthropology at Tulane University,...
View ArticleProfessor Gary Truce researches real-life ghost stories
For many, ghosts and spirits are the stuff of Halloween and haunted houses. For Gary Truce, they are his area of academic expertise. Students, faculty and visitors filled the Institute for Advanced...
View ArticleFormer UN speaker talks international affairs
For a speaker used to the White House and United Nations Headquarters, 1979 alumnus Eric Schwartz still appeared at home in Binghamton University’s Watters Theater. “It’s a joy to be back, I remember...
View ArticleLt. Colonel discusses motivations of women and children suicide bombers
A former lieutenant colonel in the Israeli Defense Forces visited Binghamton University to take students into the minds of suicide bombers. Anat Berko, a lecturer at the International Institute for...
View ArticleRabbi Avraham Weiss talks gender balance in Orthodoxy
Founder of the first institution to ordain Orthodox Jewish women as clergy, Rabbi Avraham Weiss spoke Thursday about bringing both male and female spiritual leaders into the Jewish community. May 2009...
View ArticleProfessor connects allele with different flower colors
Jay Sobel, an evolutionary geneticist who joined Binghamton University’s biological sciences department this year, was this week’s speaker for Biology 451: Current Topics in EvoS. “I am fascinated by...
View ArticleUnited Nations representative talks spy tales
After avoiding wiretaps and spies in Syria, Pakistan and Nigeria, Ambassador Joseph Melrose let students listen in on his experiences as at the United Nations and U.S. Foreign Service. “I find these...
View ArticleCuban professor discusses origins of slave trade
After retracing hundreds of miles of slave voyages, Jorge Felipe González traveled hundreds of miles from Cuba to Binghamton to explain his research. González, from the Fundación Fernando Ortiz in...
View ArticleSpeaker researches Korean family trees
While some Korean natives may claim to be able to trace their family history back to royalty, professor Eugene Y. Park of the University of Pennsylvania’s Korea Foundation said that genealogy may not...
View ArticleDigital poetry fuses art and literature
While a picture is worth a thousand words, there is no accounting for art made from words. As part of the Harpur College Dean’s Workshop in Visual Culture series, or VizCult, Jeroen Gerrits, an...
View ArticlePanelists recount life with HIV
Women Empowered Support Protect Educate Advocate and Know at Binghamton University (WE SPEAK BU) held their third annual “It Can’t Happen to Me” discussion panel Thursday in the University Union, where...
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