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New research by Suann Yang, assistant professor of biology, examines the interactions of mistletoe, a parasitic plant, host trees and two species of birds that disperse the mistletoe seeds.

James W. Ratigan, a 71-year-old retiree from Friendship, N.Y., is not one to remain idle. And now that he has a �鶹��ý�Ŷ� bachelor’s degree in hand, it’s unlikely that idleness will ever be an issue.

�鶹��ý�Ŷ� alumna Molly Smith Metzler made it clear to the graduates in the Class of 2017 today that life likely will not go the way they think it will but encouraged them to treat setbacks as “the stuff that will give you a wonderful and interesting life story, one that you get to write and star in.”

A childhood/special education major's class project on Earth Day resulted in a group of children learning about how recycling benefits the environment.

Four students from The State University of New York at �鶹��ý�Ŷ� have received a 2017 Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence.

�鶹��ý�Ŷ� faculty member Douglas Owens has received a Fulbright German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) award to attend the summer academy in Leipzig for U.S.-American faculty in German Studies.

Anne Pellerin, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, and Amber Charlebois, chemistry department lecturer, have received a Consortium for High Achievement and Success (CHAS) faculty grant of $6,500 for a pilot project to build a tiered mentoring program for undergraduate women and underrepresented minorities in STEM fields at �鶹��ý�Ŷ�.

Two faculty members in the Department of Geography have received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Research in Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) award of $232,099 for a collaborative research project to assess the environmental and human drivers and the cultural dimension of changes in oak forests in the eastern United States.

A �鶹��ý�Ŷ� VentureWorks team won second place and two others received awards of recognition in the finals of the New York State Business Plan Competition in Albany April 28. �鶹��ý�Ŷ�’s teams were among 103 from 60 colleges and universities in the statewide competition.

�鶹��ý�Ŷ�’s School of Business has received a five-year extension of its business accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). Such accreditation by the AACSB International Board of Directors is the hallmark of excellence in business education and has been earned by less than five percent of the world’s business schools.

Two �鶹��ý�Ŷ� students, senior Alex McGrath and sophomore Annie Renaud, have won highly competitive Critical Language Scholarship awards for Russian this year among a field of national candidates.

�鶹��ý�Ŷ� students will be involved in a daylong campus celebration April 25 by presenting their creative and scholarly endeavors during the college’s 11th annual GREAT Day. For the first time since its inception, more than 1,000 students will showcase their work with presentations, performances and exhibits.

In the peaks of the Canadian Rockies, students in this geography class immerse themselves in culture and explore how communities work.

All five student teams from �鶹��ý�Ŷ�’s VentureWorks entrepreneurship program are advancing to the NYS Business Plan Competition in Albany April 28.

Two �鶹��ý�Ŷ� seniors, a graduate student and an alumna have been awarded highly competitive U.S. Fulbright Scholarships for 2017-18 to participate in the English Teaching Assistant (ETA) Program. Another student was selected as an alternate.

The State University of New York at �鶹��ý�Ŷ� will be inducting 87 students into the college’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa this spring, prompted by their recent election by the college’s faculty. Phi Beta Kappa is the nation’s oldest and most widely known academic honor society. Students from both the junior and senior classes are selected each spring for membership into the organization.

Two �鶹��ý�Ŷ� students have received prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships for 2017. Juniors Jeffrey Doser, a biology/mathematics double major from Penfield, N.Y., and Lara Finnerty-Haggerty, a biology major from Brooklyn, N.Y., were among the 240 recipients.

Maria Gershuni '17 recently won the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges (COPLAC) David J. Prior Award for an essay in which she shared her perspective of the value of a liberal arts education and how her experience at �鶹��ý�Ŷ� has helped shaped who she is.

Assistant Professor of Political Science Karleen West’s research on indigenous reactions to oil development in Ecuador has earned national attention in two publications.

For the second time and in consecutive years, a �鶹��ý�Ŷ� undergraduate has won a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship and is now headed to MIT.

Gillen D’Arcy Wood, professor of environmental humanities at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, will deliver the 14th Annual American Rock Salt Lecture April 6 at 7:30 p.m. in Newton Hall 202. The lecture, titled “Frankenstein’s Weather: The Year Without a Summer, 1816,” is free and open to the public.

Red Hook, Brooklyn, was once a struggling neighborhood and is changing dramatically. It is now the college’s newest learning space.

Stacey M. Robertson has been appointed to serve as �鶹��ý�Ŷ�’s new provost and vice president for academic affairs. She is currently the dean of the College of Arts and Humanities at Central Washington University (CWU).

Senior Nick Duran embraces his multiple passions through leadership roles, on and off the �鶹��ý�Ŷ� campus.

Assistant Professor of Anthropology Melanie Medeiros is getting ready to celebrate the release of her book, Marriage, Divorce and Distress in Northeast Brazil: Black Women's Perspectives on Love, Respect and Kinship.