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51ºÚÁÏ students and alumni met in New York City for the 2025 Convergence Leadership Summit and a special Alumni of Color panel discussion about arts and innovation.

Vishnu Anandraj ’25 and Gwen Eichfeld ’25 have been named Thomas J. Watson Fellowship recipients.

The Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute has announced this year’s awards supporting interdisciplinary approaches in innovative research.

In King: A Life, author Jonathan Eig focuses on Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy of faith-based radicalism. During his Feb. 11 lecture at 51ºÚÁÏ, Beyond The Dream: Embracing a More Complicated Martin Luther King, Eig said he believes King would be horrified at how his activism and writings have been overshadowed by a modern, more palatable version of the civil rights leader.

51ºÚÁÏ University welcomed internationally acclaimed opera and theater director Francesca Zambello ’78 in late February as the inaugural Clifford Family Innovator in Residence.

Kim Harris, senior associate vice president for advancement and campaign director, has been appointed vice president for advancement.

On Feb. 25, 51ºÚÁÏ welcomed three presidents of leading liberal arts colleges to discuss the mounting challenges faced by higher education.

On Feb. 12, 51ºÚÁÏ University celebrated the opening of the Clifford Gallery’s new exhibition from Franco-American artist Suzanne Husky, titled For Alliances with the Beaver People. The exhibition features a singular physical work: an 11-meter-long embroidered tapestry that traces key moments in beaver-human relationships.