Campaign News
- Skidmore’s Speech and Expression on College Campuses Symposium explored some of the most challenging topics of the day and offered a positive model of dialogue and democracy in action.
- Skidmore College recognized eminent alumna, trustee, and donor Billie Tisch ’48 by naming its ambitious new science center in her honor.
- Skidmore is recognizing the alumna's leadership and service by naming the largest single academic project in College history in her honor.
- Serena discusses her faculty-student summer collaborative research at CIS and how the space is fueling new ways of learning in the sciences at Skidmore.
- Skidmore College conferred 570 degrees to the Class of 2021 during in-person Commencement Exercises that celebrated graduates’ perseverance during a challenging senior year.
- As we look forward to celebrating the post-grad careers and adventures of our 2021 graduates in the coming months and years, several already have some exciting news to share.
- Learn how her participation in Schupf summer collaborative research created a pathway for internship opportunities and a foundation for her future goals.
- Chemistry major Heather Ricker ’22 has been awarded a Barry Goldwater Scholarship, the most prestigious scholarship in the United States for undergraduates in STEM fields.
- In a socially distanced, outdoor ceremony held in late March, Skidmore officially celebrated the completion of the Center for Integrated Sciences’ North Wing and becoming one step closer to achieving the full vision for the College’s CIS initiative.
- Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and its worldwide economic impact, members of Skidmore’s Class of 2020 are finding fulfilling success and demonstrating remarkable achievement in pursuing employment, education and other opportunities after graduation.
- More than 27,000 donors support life-changing opportunities for students while making the campaign the largest fundraiser in the College’s history.
- More than seven years ago, Skidmore embarked on Creating Our Future: The Campaign for Skidmore to provide for students and help them achieve lives of meaning and purpose, to capitalize on the College’s incredible momentum and to continue building resources for the future.
- Creative signage for the Tang Teaching Museum’s new exhibition “Energy in All Directions” benefited from state-of-the-art equipment from the IdeaLab: The Skidmore College Makerspace.
- The first phase of Skidmore’s Center for Integrated Sciences (CIS), the largest single academic initiative in College history, has been completed and is open for the fall semester.
- As Skidmore works to meet today’s short- and long-term challenges, Creating Our Future: The Campaign for Skidmore continues to provide resources to build a creative, collaborative and community-centered present and future for the College.
- Skidmore’s new building, the Annex, is now open and is home to new classroom spaces as well as the Physics, Geosciences and Environmental Sciences and Studies departments.
- The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College has received a $1.5 million grant from the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund.
- Kimberley A. Frederick is project director for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute grant, which promotes innovative approaches to the teaching of chemistry.
- The spring 2020 issue of Scope magazine, a biannual showcase of Skidmore College’s people and programs, is available now.
- Skidmore extends the current fundraising campaign until December 31, 2020 to provide the opportunity for continued support through today’s challenges as we work to create more for Skidmore students.
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