- Skidmore's Schick Art Gallery and Tang Teaching Museum have announced their schedules for the holiday week and early January.
- The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery will present a conference titled "The College Museum: A Collision of Disciplines, a Laboratory of Perception" Friday and Saturday, April 7 and 8.
- Nationally recognized hurricane impact researcher Robert Young, associate professor of geosciences at Western Carolina University, will discuss "Atlantic Hurricanes: Hot New Science, Same Old Policy," when he delivers the Lester W. Strock Lecture in Geosciences this month.
- "Has Civil War Memory Divided or United America?" Yale University scholar David W. Blight will answer the question when he gives the inaugural Tad Kuroda Lecture at Skidmore Friday, April 7.
- The fall athletic seasons are winding down with post-season bids on the line this weekend for several teams.
- Words, a performance group that uses words and music to foster positive change, returns to Skidmore for a fifth straight year for a concert at 9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 3, in Filene Recital Hall.
- Gregory Howard Williams, president of the City College of New York and author, will lead a lecture and discussion on campus Wednesday, Sept. 20. His talk is scheduled to begin at 5:30 p.m. in Gannett Auditorium of Palamountain Hall.
- Wayne Higby, a contemporary ceramic artist recognized by the American Crafts Movement as a "genuine living legend," will present the 2006 Rosanne Brody Raab Lecture Wednesday, Nov. 1, on campus.
- Booker Prize-winning novelist Margaret Atwood will deliver the Frances Steloff Lecture at Skidmore College at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 2, in Gannett Auditorium of Palamountain Hall.
- Jeff Treuhaft '91, vice president of digial content services at VeriSign, will be the keynote speaker at the inaugural meeting of the Skidmore Business Network-San Francisco (SBN-SF) Chapter.