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Could students from the Rochester City School District (RCSD) be instrumental in NASA’s goal to send humans to Mars before the anticipated asteroid event in 2029?

Kevin Militello, professor of biology, has been awarded a grant of nearly $460,000 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The award will, in part, help fund undergraduate researchers who will work in Militello’s lab looking for new drug targets in the parasite that causes African Sleeping Sickness.

Last week, �鶹��ý�Ŷ� chefs prepared potato salad for an employee year-end luncheon with garlic scapes harvested from the college’s own learning and experimental garden as the star ingredient.

Geography faculty members David Robertson and Stephen Tulowiecki ’09, have received an NSF grant to study 200 years of environmental and cultural changes in eastern US white oak forests.

As part of its environmental sustainability efforts, the Center for Community expanded its student recycling program to college off-campus residents this spring.

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.

Randy French '83, a science teacher at �鶹��ý�Ŷ� Central School, journeyed to Antarctica last year, made possible by a Grosvenor Teaching Fellowship from the National Geographic Society. He was one of a handful of educators selected from among hundreds of applicants for a 13-day trip around the Antarctica peninsula.

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

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.

As a senior political science major and a public administration minor, Daniel Ruiz has taken advantage of �鶹��ý�Ŷ�’s numerous opportunities to attain more hands-on experience with his major.

Cuban speakers and experts on the ever-changing country are on campus today and tomorrow for an interdisciplinary symposium on contemporary Cuba.

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

At �鶹��ý�Ŷ�'s eGarden, faculty, staff and students are sowing the seeds of ingenuity and better earth practices. Now they have the added power of electricity in the barn.

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

�鶹��ý�Ŷ�'s Relay for Life is one of the most successful in the country. This year, students will try to break a new fundraising record on April 8.

�鶹��ý�Ŷ�'s annual April commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy will feature panel discussions with Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) activists Jennifer Lawson, Karen Spellman, and Freddie Greene Biddle. The Civil Rights era activists will take part in panel discussions on April 3 & 4.

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.

The Peace Corps was always on my radar, but it wasn’t until after I took Humanities II in Nicaragua as a junior through �鶹��ý�Ŷ� that it became a very real plan for after graduation. The trip forever changed my outlook on the world, and the path that I saw myself taking in the future.

One perspective I gained is to know that it's ok when things don't work out as you planned. You simply use that experience and learn from it. And, perhaps the outcome is actually something better or more effective than what you originally planned.

I learned so much that it's hard to say what the one most valuable lesson was.

When I introduce myself in Senegal, I tell people my name is Mata Dia, the name my host family gave me when I began my Peace Corps service as a Community Economic Development volunteer. In America, I’m better known as Jessica Kroenert, adventure seeker, dog enthusiast, and �鶹��ý�Ŷ� grad, class of 2015.

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

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.

When their land in the Ecuadorian Amazon was opened for oil drilling, the First People of Sarayaku fought back - and have won in the highest international courts to protect their land and the ecosystem’s resources.