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Percival Everett proved to be a highlight of the 2024 Living Writers series when he gave the first-ever public reading of his new novel, James, in Love Auditorium on Thursday, Sept. 21.

Two academic freedom experts, Keith Whittington of Yale Law School and Ulrich Baer of New York University, made their cases for the role and scope of free speech in higher education during èצӰ��’s 2024 Constitution Day Debate.

This past summer, three èצӰ�� geology students embarked on a once-in-a-lifetime research trip to gather samples from Augustine Volcano in southern Alaska.

Professor Joe Levy and two èצӰ�� students spent time in the Alvord Desert in Eastern Oregon with a NASA team that’s designing a new generation of Mars helicopters with sensors to examine moisture in soil.

Free speech on campus will be the focus of this fall’s 2024 Constitution Day Debate.

èצӰ��’s Case Library is now designated as an official steward of thousands of U.S. presidential documents, effectively opening public access to the University’s collection of presidential writings, addresses, and public remarks dating from 1929–2017 thanks to a new agreement with the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO).

Last spring, local Little Libraries were the focus of a “little activism” project: students donated books by Indigenous authors, informing their decisions with semester-long research.

Michael Fitzgerald, recently retired commissioner at the Madison County Department of Social Services (DSS), has been appointed to serve as Gretchen Hoadley Burke ’81 Endowed Chair in regional studies for the 2024–25 academic year. Fitzgerald brings a wealth of practitioner experience, a deep commitment to community, and a strong relationship with the Upstate Institute and èצӰ��. 

New York Times correspondent David Sanger, a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, visited èצӰ�� on March 26 for a lecture and discussion about his new book.

A team of astrophysicists has found three bright objects that might be “dark stars.”