Skidmore College News

Abigail B. Crocker of Hallowell enrolled this fall at Colby College. The graduate of Hall-Dale High School is the daughter of Dan and Christy Crocker of Hallowell.

Santoferrara performs with SSYO For the third consecutive year, Solvay High School junior trumpeter, Gabriella Santoferrara has been selected by audition to perform as a member of the Syracuse Symphony Youth Orchestra.

Amanda Werner, Class of 2011 was recently named to the Skidmore College Thoroughbred Society.

Despite expectations of an economic turnaround, Skidmore College announced that it would lay off 30 to 70 employees to help balance the budget for the 2011 fiscal year.

The jury in the fraud trial of former Senate majority leader Joseph L. Bruno, returning from a five-day Thanksgiving break, completed their second day of deliberations Monday without reaching a verdict.

Skidmore College has earned a dubious distinction: Eyesore of the month. That title was bestowed on the school's Arthur Zankel Music Center by James Howard Kunstler, a local resident and author who chronicles what he sees as the decline of architecture in America.

Howard Healy, former editorial page editor of the Times Union, has been named coordinator of The Sage Colleges' new Professional Writing Program, which offers courses in a variety of fields, including freelance, technical and grant writing, as well as editing.

Denis Desjardins wants to stand out from the pile. In about a year, his resume will be deep in a stack on someone's desk.

This is college application season for a lot of teenagers, an apt time to pose questions to Sandy Baum, a former professor at Skidmore College and an economist at the College Board.

Quantum fluctuations in space, science, exploration and other cosmic fields... served up regularly by MSNBC.com science editor Alan Boyle since 2002.

The State University of New York experienced its biggest enrollment increase in history this year.

Anna Irene Shorenstein and Jonathan George Plise were married Sept. 6 at a home in Watsonville.

Elisabeth H. Saxe of Fairfield has been appointed Director of Institutional Advancement at Westport Country Playhouse, in Westport, Connecticut, effective December 7. She returns to the historic theater after serving as its Development Director from 2001 to 2005, during which time she orchestrated a highly successful $30.6 million campaign to ...

He was most recently affiliated with Northwestern Medical Center in St. Albans. Felsted received his bachelor's degree from Iowa State University and attended medical school at Des Moines University earning his doctor of osteopathy.

Local philanthropists William Dake and Susan Dake have donated $3.9 million to the Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region in Albany, N.Y., to establish a donor-advised fund.

Twenty years after its fall on Nov. 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall still evokes a variety of painful images.

Dr. J's writing combines her love of jazz with her fascination with psychology; she enjoys focusing on where they intersect -- in the celebration of the individual spirit.

An elite group in higher education just got a bit more crowded: the $50,000 club.

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The effects of "Paranormal Activity" continue to ripple outward. Micah Sloat, who plays the video-savvy male half of the movie's tormented couple, has signed with Innovative Artists for agency representation.