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Hartwick’s Russo Receives Fifth Grant in Two Years from Autism Research Institute
Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology Dr. Anthony (A.J.) Russo has received another grant from the Autism Research Institute in the amount of $5,260 to continue his studies on the roles of biomarkers in the etiology of autism. Read full text

Stephen L. Green ‘59 Student Paper Competition Winners Announced
On May 9, 2013, The Stephen L. Green American Governance Award Presentation was held in the Eaton Lounge of Bresee Hall on the Hartwick College campus. During this time, five contest winners were announced including Rio Dhat '14, Ed Newman '15, Daniel Dunn '13, Carrie Gauthier '13, and John Stuligross '13. Read full text

Hartwick Commencement Events Planned for May 23-25
Next Saturday, May 25, Hartwick College will celebrate the Class of 2013 during the College's 82nd Commencement exercises. Faculty, staff, family, and friends will gather at 11:30 a.m. on Elmore Field to recognize graduates' achievements throughout their time spent at Hartwick College. Read full text

Hartwick’s Pine Lake to Hold Field Day for K-12 Students
Hartwick College’s Pine Lake Institute for Environmental and Sustainability Studies will soon hold a TAP-US (“Think, Act, Protect the Upper Susquehanna River”) Field Day, with events focused on learning about the regional watershed on Friday, June 7, 2013. The day’s activities will take place from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Hartwick College's Pine Lake Environmental Campus located at 1894 Charlotte Creek Road in Oneonta, NY. The event, which is designed for kindergarten through 12th grade teachers and students in the Upper Susquehanna River basin, is free and open to the general public. School bus travel to the event will be subsidized upon request. Read full text

Hartwick Students Put Best Work on Display for Showcase 2013
On Friday, May 10, Hartwick College's 6th annual Student Showcase featured more than 250 presentations, exhibits, performances, and discussions of student work. As participants put their best work of the 2012-13 academic year on display during this day-long event, the community gathered to celebrate student scholarship and achievement that covered 188 topics and spanned the academic divisions of Arts & Humanities, Physical and Life Sciences, and Social and Behavioral Sciences. Read full text

Honors Convocation Tradition Lives on at Hartwick College
Hartwick College honored more than 170 students and faculty members yesterday evening during the College's annual Honors Convocation ceremony in Lambros Arena, Binder Physical Education Center. President Dr. Margaret L. Drugovich and members of the Hartwick College community gathered to honor and congratulate the recipients of awards granted by academic departments and programs, as well as by several staff departments. Read full text

Hartwick Partnership with Guiding Eyes for the Blind Continues to Flourish
For nearly 20 years now, puppies have been spotted throughout the Hartwick College campus. Not only are these dogs adorable, but they are also part of the incredible, life-changing organization: Guiding Eyes for the Blind. Read full text
Hartwick Receives Grant from the Dean M. Graham Foundation
Hartwick College has received a grant from the Dean M. Graham Foundation in the amount of $3,600. With the funding, Kayla Murphy '14, a student in Hartwick's biotechnology program, will assist Professor of Biology Dr. Stanley Sessions this summer with research on organ regeneration in salamanders. Read full text

“Out of the Barrio” Lecture to be Presented at Hartwick
Hartwick College will soon host a lecture titled "Out of the Barrio." The speaker, Stephanie Elizondo Griest, has mingled with the Russian mafia, polished propaganda in China, and danced with rumba queens in Cuba, and now she will speak at Hartwick. The talk will be held at 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 9 in Shineman Chapel on the Hartwick College campus. The event is free and the public is invited to attend. Read full text

Hartwick Education Students to Paint Flower Pots in Downtown Oneonta
Hartwick College student members of the Society for the Enrichment & Education of Children (Education Club) will host a free mini flower pot painting event from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 11 at the Oneonta Farmers' Market, Muller Plaza, Main Street, Oneonta. The event is free and open to the public. Read full text

Hartwick’s Wellman to Wrap Up Faculty Lecture Series
Assistant Professor of Psychology Dr. Justin A. Wellman will present a talk titled "Understanding the Dark Horse of Personality: When Will the Pessimist Win?" during this year's final Faculty Lecture Series event. The talk will be held at 4 p.m. on Friday, May 3 in Bresee Hall's Eaton Lounge on the Hartwick College Campus. The event is free, and the public is invited to attend. Read full text

Hartwick Students to Participate in Otsego County Chamber Logo Project
Students at Hartwick College, including those in Associate Professor of Art & Art History Joseph Von Stengel’s Art 216 Digital Art & Design II: Digital Print Media class, will soon be participating in a logo design project for the Otsego County Chamber (OCC). Read full text

Nahal Zamani To Present Hardy Chair Lecture
Nahal Zamani will soon present the second 2013 H. Claude Hardy Chair in Sociology Lecture. Zamani, the Advocacy and Program Manager for Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) Government Misconduct and Racial Justice division, will share her lecture titled "Advocating for Change: Dismantling Discriminatory Policing Practices/Dismantling Stop and Frisk." Read full text
2013 Campus Beautification Set for Friday, May 3
Hartwick College will host its annual Campus Beautification Day this Friday, May 3. Students, faculty, and staff volunteers are invited to work on projects across Oyaron Hill from 1-4 p.m. Read full text

Elizabeth Greco '14 Wins Anna Sonder Prize of the Academy of American Poets
The Hartwick College Department of English and Theatre Arts is pleased to announce the winner of the 2012-13 Anna Sonder Prize of the Academy of American Poets: Elizabeth Greco ‘14. Greco took home the prize for her poem, "Girl." Read full text

Pine Lake to Host Annual Eco Art Festival
In an ongoing celebration of Earth Day, Hartwick College's Pine Lake Environmental Campus will soon host an Eco Art Festival. The events will begin at 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 4, and are scheduled to continue through noon on Sunday, May 5. The event is free and the public is invited to attend and partake in earth-friendly activities throughout the weekend. Read full text

Wick Athletic Association Hosts 10th Annual Wine & Beer Tasting Reception & Benefit Auction
The Hartwick College Wick Athletic Association (WAA) will host its annual Wine & Beer Tasting Reception & Benefit Auction at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 9 at Stella Luna Ristorante, 58 Market St. in Oneonta. Read full text

Hartwick to Unveil Notable Alumni Wall During “Alumni at the Forefront” Event
The inaugural class of "Hartwick Alumni at the Forefront" will be inducted during a presentation at 8 a.m. on May 11, 2013 in the lobby of Yager Hall on the Hartwick College campus. During this event, which is free and open to the public, Hartwick administrators will unveil the notable alumni wall and recognize the alumni featured. Read full text
Hartwick Hosts “Making and Managing Change in the Inevitable Unknown” Panel
On May 11, 2013, Hartwick College will host a panel discussion titled "Making and Managing Change in the Inevitable Unknown," welcoming back four notable Hartwick College alumni for the occasion. Read full text

Hartwick Student Edward Newman ’14 Selected to Exhibit Pinhole Photography
Hartwick Student Edward Newman '14 was recently selected to exhibit his pinhole negative print "Artroom Skyline" in a pinhole photography exhibit. The show, which will take place at the RayKo Photo Center in San Francisco, California, will run from April 28 to May 25, 2013. Read full text

Hartwick’s Lacy Receives National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend
Professor of History and History Department Chair Dr. Cherilyn Lacy has received a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend, which provides $6,000 for two months worth of full time work. The funding will be used toward Lacy's project: "Total War and Civilian Health in France 1914-1918." Read full text
Hartwick Plans May 4 Open House for High School Juniors
Hartwick College will host an Open House program on May 4, 2013 geared toward current high school juniors who are interested in becoming part of Hartwick's Class of 2018. Read full text

Hartwick’s Kuzminski to Host Roundtable Discussion on Why Money Matters
Dr. Adrian Kuzminski, resident scholar in Philosophy at Hartwick College and author of forthcoming book, The Ecology of Money: Debt, Growth, and Sustainability (Lexington Books), will soon chair a roundtable discussion on "Why Money Matters: How Modern Finance Created the Modern World, for Better and Worse." The event will take place in the Farrington Room of Dewar Hall on the Hartwick College campus at 5 p.m. on Wednesday May 1, 2013. The discussion is free and the public is encouraged to attend. Read full text

Hartwick’s Travisano Named 2013 Guggenheim Fellow
Dr. Thomas J. Travisano, professor of English at Hartwick College, has been named a 2013 Guggenheim Fellow in the category of "Creative Arts - Biography." Now in its 89th year, the annual award given by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, is among the most distinctive and prestigious honors an artist or a scholar can achieve. Read full text

Awards Presented at Hartwick’s Annual Peep Show
Peep fans hailing from the Hartwick and Oneonta communities alike gathered on Friday, April 5 in the foyer of the Anderson Center for the Arts to partake in the College's annual "Peep Show." To celebrate the arrival of spring and the unique confection, all members of the college and surrounding communities were welcome to create a work of art representing, interpreting, defacing, mocking, celebrating, or analyzing the infamous marshmallow treat. This year's event was sponsored by the Department of Art and Art History at Hartwick College and Hartwick's student art organization, ARTistocracy. Read full text

Honors Convocation Tradition to Continue at Hartwick on May 8
Honors Convocation 2013 will be held at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, May 8 in Lambros Arena, Binder Physical Education Center. At this time, President Dr. Margaret L. Drugovich and members of the Hartwick College community will convene to honor and congratulate the recipients of more than 170 awards granted by academic departments and programs, as well as by several staff departments. Read full text

Hartwick Completes Project Funded by National Endowment for the Humanities Grant
In 2010, Hartwick College received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in the amount of $6,000. The grant, implemented in the spring and summer of 2011, funded a visit by a professional conservator who surveyed the audio materials within the college archives and then wrote an extensive report on their condition, including recommendations for their preservation and care. Read full text

Hartwick’s Titus Gives Roxbury Students an Edge in Science Olympiad
Since 1995, Hartwick College Professor of Geology Dr. Robert Titus has been going above and beyond his time spent in the classroom at Hartwick by volunteering at the Roxbury Junior and Senior Central Schools in Roxbury, New York. Year after year, Titus returns to the small school district in the western Catskills to serve as an advisor in order to assist students with their participation in the annual New York State Science Olympiad. Read full text

Mohawk Installation Artist Alan Michelson to Visit Hartwick
Hartwick College will soon welcome installation artist Alan Michelson, who will give a lecture on his recent projects and works. The lecture is free and the public is encouraged to attend. The event, sponsored by the Richard L. Haan Fund in Native American Studies, the 2012-2013 Campus Theme "Tools for Life," and the Department of Art and Art History, will be held Thursday, April 11 at 7 p.m. in the Anderson Center for the Arts Theatre on the Hartwick College campus. Read full text

Logan Adsit ‘11 To Present Hardy Chair Lecture at Hartwick
Recent Hartwick College graduate Logan Adsit '11 will present the 2013 H. Claude Hardy Chair in Sociology Lecture at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 17 in the Anderson Center for the Arts Theatre on the Hartwick College campus. Adsit, who graduated from Hartwick College with a bachelor's degree in sociology, will offer a lecture titled "The Impact of Gas Hydrofracking: Voices from the Southern Tier." The event is free and the public is invited to attend. Read full text

USCTI at Hartwick Issues National Call for Nominations of Buffalo Soldiers’ Families
The United States Colored Troops Institute for Local History and Family Research (USCTI) at Hartwick College has issued a call for communities nationwide to identify extended families of the famed "Buffalo Soldiers," a collective name for the four African American regiments of the U.S. Army, e.g., Ninth and Tenth Cavalries and the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Infantries, who were organized after the Civil War and remained in service to World War II. It was common for any African American soldier in World War II to be identified by the public as a Buffalo Soldier. Read full text

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Marilynne Robinson Concludes Hartwick Writers Series
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson will read from her work at Hartwick College on Thursday, April 18, 2013. She will conclude the 2012-13 “Four Writers Who Changed the World” series, which has featured three other award-winning writers renowned in the arts, humanities, and sciences. Read full text

Hartwick College 2014 January Term Application Period Open
The 2014 Off-Campus January Term (J Term) Program application submission period is officially open. The 2014 line up of programs currently includes a choice of 22 courses to 18 countries, providing a view of the world through 18 different Hartwick disciplines. Read full text

Inspirational Speaker, Author John Robinson to Deliver Lecture at Hartwick
The Hartwick College Faculty Committee on Diversity and Campus Climate and LEADs, the student organization focused on Leadership, Education, and Awareness for Disabilities, will soon host internationally-acclaimed inspirational speaker and author John Robinson. The event will take place on Thursday, April 4, at 5 p.m. in the Celebration Room of Shineman Chapel House on the Hartwick College campus, and is free and open to the public. Read full text

Hartwick’s Russo Receives Grant from Autism Research Institute
Hartwick College Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology Dr. Anthony (A.J.) Russo has received a grant from the Autism Research Institute (ARI) in the amount of $4,500. Russo will use the funds to continue his studies on the roles of biomarkers in the etiology of autism. Read full text

Call for Submissions to Hartwick’s Annual "Peep Show"
What is more representative of Spring than the oozy, gooey, sugary, marshmallow Peep? Wick’s annual Peep Show! This year’s sweet event will be held on Friday April 5 in the Foyer of Anderson Center for the Arts on the Hartwick campus. Read full text
Hartwick’s Balogh-Brunstad to Present Next Installment in Faculty Lecture Series
Assistant Professor of Chemistry Dr. Zsuzsanna Balogh-Brunstad will present a talk titled "Where Minerals Meet Life: Fungal Weathering and Potassium Acquisition" during this month's Faculty Lecture Series event. The talk will be held at 4 p.m. this Friday, March 15 in Bresee Hall's Eaton Lounge on the Hartwick College Campus. The event is free, and the public is invited to attend. Read full text

Hartwick College Announces New Construction and Renovation Project
Hartwick College has announced plans to renovate the Dewar Union building. The $3.4 million dollar, 14,800 square-foot construction project will include a revitalization of the current Stack Lounge and the addition of a new, state-of-the-art exercise facility. Read full text

Hartwick College Theatre Reinvents Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”
The Hartwick College Departments of Theatre Arts and English will soon present a strikingly original and unique production of William Shakespeare's "The Tempest," as directed by Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts Malissa Kano-White. For the first time in the history of the Hartwick Theatre program, large puppet characters will be integrated into the production with live actors, creating an unforgettable performance. Read full text
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