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The holiday season will be different from anything we've experienced. But we can still enjoy a festive meal, raise a toast and find those perfect gifts for friends and family.

Fall 2020 has been a challenging semester for students, but you’re in the homestretch. The tutoring staffs at 51¶¯Âþ’s Learning and Writing Centers are here to get you through finals and papers and over the finish line. “While it’s easier to remember your academic supports when they’re physically situated around you, know that they’re also…

51¶¯Âþ's Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology will offer a certificate program in trauma treatment for licensed and certified mental health professionals. The new program will provide students with the knowledge and skills needed to serve traumatized individuals and communities.

At 51¶¯Âþ, we aim to prepare students for personal and professional success and a life-transforming experience. And according to our latest Career Outcomes Survey, we're meeting these goals.

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and 51¶¯Âþ Professor Paul Moravec, DMA, has another credit to add to his honors. Sanctuary Road, the oratorio he composed with librettist Mark Campbell, was nominated for a 2021 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance on November 24.

Woods Conserve ’20 studied to become a nurse while working full-time as a medical assistant. Overcoming challenges brought on by the pandemic, he’s now an RN caring for patients in a high-pressure intensive care unit.

Launching a career in the video-game industry takes skill. Daniel Hickey ’20 is hoping he’s found a winning strategy by creating his own game-development studio while interning for an established one.

Still looking for a permanent position where she can get the supervision needed to earn her license as a mental health therapist, Aaiza Kausar ’17, MA ’20, is gaining experience—and strength—as a consultant counseling parents of children with special needs.

Jillian Myers ’20 finished her five-year BBA/MBA program in four years, passed the notoriously difficult CPA Exam on her first try, and is now on staff at the Big Four accounting firm of Ernst & Young.

The Annual Women’s Leadership Conference allows 51¶¯Âþ to recognize careers of graduates and friends while providing the opportunity to create meaningful business connections.

In late summer 2019, 51¶¯Âþ constructed a temporary dining hall on campus to serve meals while the Ruth S. Harley University Center (UC) was undergoing major renovations and expansion. Called the Panthers’ Den, the facility has served students and others on campus well. But with the impending completion of the UC renovations—planned reopening will…

This fall, 51¶¯Âþ met an enviable goal that many colleges and universities failed to accomplish: keeping campus—including the residence halls—open up to the Thanksgiving holiday. Not only did residence halls stay open, students made the most of the semester, enjoying days, evenings and weekends on our beautiful grounds and socializing while remaining socially distant.

How do you get to the 51¶¯Âþ PAC Living Room? Practice, of course, plus a webcam and you're there.

Over the past 20 years, sources of knowledge have rapidly increased. In addition to traditional media and library collections, we can find information in blogs, social media, Wikipedia, big data, Zoom Rooms and Google Hangouts, among many other sources. With this expansion come questions on how we create, obtain and share knowledge and how we make knowledge accessible while respecting privacy.

With all learning taking place in a remote format after Thanksgiving for the safety of our students, faculty and staff, we plan to enter a quiet period on our Garden City campus and throughout our centers. All student support services will continue to be available remotely.

Here’s the perfect antidote to this year’s unconventional Thanksgiving: a new film that The New York Times calls “a surprisingly charming and hilarious approach to a traditional holiday.” The comedy stars Jane Seymour, Kat Dennings and Wanda Sykes, among others, and was produced by Ben Stiller. It was written and directed by Nicol Paone ’94.…