Go BEHIND THE SCENES with Bing scientist Adriane Lam on her first-ever research trip to Antarctica! ❄️🐧🇦🇶 tinyurl.com/3az48s28

Congratulations to Nicholas Kanaar from the Writing Initiative, who received the Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Teaching! The award recognizes his outstanding contribution to student learning and pedagogical excellence.

Apply today for donor-funded scholarships at binghamton.academicworks.com! The deadline for 2026-27 scholarships is May 3. For scholarships that require financial need, please complete a FAFSA application.

Harpur junior Jesse Findling's run on "American Idol" ends at the top 12. Read more: bit.ly/4tB4X3E

Visitors to the Binghamton University Art Museum are usually asked to look closely at the artwork on display – but not touch. A collaboration with the Fabrication Lab is changing that by using 3D scanning and printing technology to create tactile replicas of artwork. tinyurl.com/5cd5p4er

Economics lecturer Amarendra Sharma published "Reexamining Okun's Law using State Level Panel Data from Mexico" (co-authored with Oscar Cardenas and Lhakpa Sherpa) in the journal EconoQuantum.

PhD student Lisa Compo's poem "False Aubade" won first runner-up for Palette Poetry's 2025 Nature Poetry Prize. She also has recent poems in Sugar House Review and Tusculum Review. Great work!

An April 10 screening presented by the Binghamton University Cinema Department will provide public access to rarely screened experimental films sourced from archives not typically available outside specialized academic or institutional contexts. Learn more: bit.ly/4cqbWqa

Associate Professor of English Jennifer Stoever recently published “Making Parking Ramps Dance: Flexibility, Reciprocity, and Community Building in the Binghamton Historical Soundwalk Project” in Public Humanities: Engaging Community, Empowering Civic Discourse, and Reshaping Academia.

One Pulse, a multicultural dance showcase, will give the Binghamton University community a chance to experience global cultures firsthand — and even taste them with free ethnic food offered after the show. The event will be held at 4 p.m. April 11. Learn more here: tinyurl.com/8cm74dtu

Congratulations to Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology Michael Little, Professor of History Donald Nieman, and Associate Professor of Linguistics and French Linguistics Yulia Bosworth, who received awards for articles they’ve written for The Conversation! Read more: tinyurl.com/5n83d9pv

Binghamton University will honor award-winning author & journalist M. Gessen with The Nadia Rubaii Memorial Award at 4:30 pm April 10 in the First Floor Atrium at the University Downtown Center at this year’s Frontiers of Prevention Conference. The event is free & open to the public. bit.ly/47EqWy8

A team of biologists used datasets both old and new to discover how flight periods of moths in Ithaca, N.Y., have changed over the past century. Learn more: tinyurl.com/casrktwh

Jeanette deCuba, a doctoral candidate in Earth Sciences, became a mentor to undergraduates experiencing research at sea for the first time. Learn more: tinyurl.com/yc8ne384

The Kaschak Institute for Social Justice for Women and Girls is offering Binghamton students multiple opportunities to learn about gender–responsive climate action such as attending conventions, working on projects and gaining hands-on experience in the field. Read more: tinyurl.com/pauv5ax9

Associate Professor of Judaic Studies and History Dina Danon’s focuses on Jewish people living outside of the West, specifically the Sephardi communities who lived in the Islamic world. Learn more: tinyurl.com/5prkzay9

This Harpur scientist is afraid of spiders, but he keeps a tarantula in his office! Find out why in the latest edition of Desktop Discoveries: tinyurl.com/4p7bezvf

On Oct. 3 and 4, the Translation Research & Instruction Program (TRIP) will host the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies’ regional workshop.

Applications are now being accepted for the Stephen David Ross University and Community Projects Fund at Binghamton University. Ross, distinguished research professor emeritus, established the fund to advance working partnerships between the University and the community. tinyurl.com/4yepmdax

Digital and Data Studies director Gregory Hallenbeck delivered the keynote address at DH Utah, sharing his expertise with digital humanities professionals and scholars at this regional conference. Learn more: dhutah.org

Congratulations to Art History alum Paulina Banas, PhD ’16! Now an assistant professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, she recently published the book Visualizing Egypt: European Travel, Book Publishing, and the Commercialization of the Middle East in the Nineteenth Century.

One Pulse, a multicultural dance showcase, will give the Binghamton University community a chance to experience global cultures firsthand — and even taste them with free ethnic food offered after the show. The event will be held at 4 p.m. April 11. Learn more here: tinyurl.com/8cm74dtu

Yes! Harpur junior Jesse Findling made American Idol's top 14. Get the recap and see what's next: tinyurl.com/3e8d3nba

Assistant Professor of Theatre Madeline Harts presented at two significant conferences. At the Musical Theatre Educators' Alliance National Conference at San Diego State University, she introduced singing journals as a new pedagogical tool for musical theatre education.

GO JESSE! 🎤 Bing junior Jesse Findling returns to American Idol at 8 p.m. ET tonight! Make sure to vote during the show at americanidol.com/vote

Wow! Two recent short films by Assistant Professor of Cinema Sofia Theodore-Pierce will screen at Courtisane Festival in Ghent Belgium, April 1-4. The festival explores the relations between image and world, aesthetics and politics, experiment and engagement through moving image and performance.

In the International Monetary Fund a Good Samaritan or a bad actor? A cause of protest in democracies, the IMF’s economic liberalization is welcome in autocracies, according to recent research involving Distinguished Professor of Political Science David Cingranelli. Read more: tinyurl.com/2esh3h7h

Associate Professor of English John Kuhn won the American Society for Theater Research’s prestigious Barnard Hewitt Award for his first book, Making Pagans: Theatrical Practice and Comparative Religion in Early Modern England.

History graduate student Youngin Jang received the William F. Holmes Award for best paper delivered at the annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association by a graduate student or junior faculty member.

Art & Design lecturer Kari Varner has a solo exhibition, "Flatland," at Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, Nebraska, through April 7.

The achievements of Binghamton’s doctoral candidates were highlighted during the University’s 2026 Graduate Student Excellence Awards ceremony and reception, held March 26 in the University Union. Learn more about our amazing doctoral students: tinyurl.com/6knkryy3

School of the Arts founding director Christopher Robbins completed a MacDowell fellowship to plan the next stage of the American Riad, a public art and housing justice installation in Detroit. Learn more about this fascinating project and its origins in a thinktank in Morocco: tinyurl.com/mr28n9rw

Join SOARJAM from 7 to 9 p.m. tonight, March 26, in the Chamber Hall! Join students across disciplines in a live, collaborative art action. Come to watch, or participate; we’ll help you find ways to join in and create live. No prior experience required.

Founded by artistic director and composer Hippocrates Cheng, East Asian Music in the Contemporary World starts its New York tour on April 13. Learn more: tinyurl.com/ymptvf2c

On Passover, some Sephardic Jews revisit not only the story of their ancestors, but also their Ladino language. Check out this piece in @The_Conversation by Associate Professor of Spanish and Linguistics Bryan Kirschen: tinyurl.com/3p6ezskh

Think your student org is the smartest? Prove it at B-SMART's annual Brain Games! Join us Thursday, 4/9, 7–8:30 p.m. in the Mandela Room. Register or get info at bit.ly/26brain-games. Hosted by the Binghamton Student Managed Adderall Research Team.

Congratulations to Psychology Professor David Werner, who co-authored paper with elite alcohol researchers from across North America in the journal Alcohol, Clinical and Experimental Research.

Congratulations to Associate Professor of Art History Jeffrey Kirkwood, who published a new text in the collected volume Reckoning with Everything, edited by Bernhard Siegert and Benedikt Merkle for Meson Press. The publication is available for open-source download here: tinyurl.com/4mnysawz

Alum Dante Di Stefano, PhD ’15, will publish his latest poetry collection, Heartland Errata, with Etruscan Press in November 2026. Looking forward to it!

The National Science Foundation Energy Storage Engine in Upstate New York, which aims to transform upstate into America’s battery tech capital, will receive $45 million over three years for the second phase of the program. Learn more: tinyurl.com/mryujy5f

A special edition of the Binghamton University Undergraduate Research journal focuses on human rights. The peer-reviewed research papers were produced by Professor Alexandra Moore’s Source Project stream. Read more: tinyurl.com/4c4h54x6

May 5 is the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit (MMIW2S) peoples. On March 24, the Division of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion & the Multicultural Resource Center will host a day of events to shine a light on this issue. tinyurl.com/4v7be9v2

We've got two groups presenting growth-related research at #AABA2026 today! These were their term projects for our Growth and Development course this fall. Go check the posters out ! @harpurcollege.bsky.social

On Friday, March 20, as the rain started falling as if it was waiting for its cue, the annual “Stepping on the Coat” tradition was held on the Spine at Binghamton University, just outside the upper level of the Union near the clock tower. Learn more about this annual tradition: tinyurl.com/3r548wuv

PhD candidate Suzanne Richardson will publish her debut poetry collection, The Want Monster, with Curbstone with Northwestern University Press in Fall 2027. Her essay "Drifting in Albuquerque" was published in the Fall 2025 issue of Strip Mall Magazine, out of the CalArts MFA program. Great work!

Congratulations to English Professor Olivia Holmes, who was invited to give a lecture on Italian medieval author Giovanni Boccaccio at the University of Salerno, Italy, and also spoke at a high school in the nearby town of Battipaglia.

Congratulations to integrative neuroscience major Riya Saraiya! The undergraduate is the first author of an article published in the journal Neurology on air pollution as a potential contributor to Parkinson’s disease. Stay tuned for a future story on Riya.

SOARJAM returns on March 26! This evening of interdisciplinary improvisation across the arts runs from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Chamber Hall, and is open to all. Come to watch or participate. Click for rehearsal signups: tinyurl.com/52zp8d2a

A review of 280 scientific studies shows that natural selection isn’t just a matter of individual “fitness,” but can also occur in groups. Binghamton University has been a center for the foundational research on multilevel selection since 1988. Read more: tinyurl.com/58b6efzv

🔋Nobel laureate Stan Whittingham gives us a close-up look at the battery he helped invent in Desktop Discoveries! Watch: tinyurl.com/2n3cdet3