Top stories of 2017
The year gave us many reasons to love Skidmore
Oprah Winfrey at Commencement, Paul Simon teaching and performing on campus, important faculty research, the annual Freirich Business Plan Competition and alumni thriving in the entertainment and media industries (including Emmy nominations) were among Skidmore's biggest stories of 2017. [Read more]
Collegial collaboration
MDOCS lecturer creates Amazon Video series
When screenwriter Nicole Coady, a member of Skidmore's documentary-studies faculty, started creating a TV series for Amazon Video, she hired Skidmore students and alumni to work in crafts from writing to wardrobe. The cast of The Adventures of Snow White and Rose Red includes Amina Theis '17, above, as Cinderella.. [Read more]
Alumni news reports, from travels to jobs to weddings to babies, are always on view at the Class Notes site.
Skidmore's dining services team earned another gold medal in the American Culinary Federation competition, held on campus at the end of January.
The This is Skidmore podcast kicks off its fourth season with Associate Professor Erica Bastress-Dukehart and three of her students who completed the course "The Quest."
Ephraim Asili: Jazz Salt, part of the Elevator Music series, is a multimedia installation featuring sampled musical tracks that celebrate the music and poetry of black Americans while confronting 20th-century racial politics. It runs through May 20.
Skidmore gatherings are slated in the coming weeks from LA to Florida to Maine, including performances by the Bandersnatchers, above.
In honor of President’s Day this month, we share this photo from Ian Sattler ’99. You can request your own Skids and share your pictures using #SkidsOnTheLoose or by emailing them to alumni@skidmore.edu. You might see your photo here!
A wild overtime win over RIT on Big Green Scream Day has the women's basketball team in first place with two games to play.
Go where hoodoos, slot canyons, arches, buttes and mesas fill vast horizons with impossible beauty and learn about the Americans of "Red Rock Country" who shaped our nation's history, October 1–10.
Upcoming campus events include the 2018 Juried Skidmore Student Exhibition, Ensemble Connect Feb. 16, Porter Classical World Lecture Feb. 20, Dover Quartet (above) Feb. 24, Making Democracy Work series Feb. 27 and Beijing Guitar Duo March 1.
Skidmore's Athletics Hall of Fame invites nominations until April 2 to induct the fastest, winningest, best Thoroughbreds from all eras.
Recent accomplishments by alumni from the classes of 2009, 2005, 2002, 1987, 1983 and 1978, including Laughing Gull Chocolates founder Lindsay Tarnoff '05.
As a service to classmates, here is a listing of deceased alumni and their online obituaries that Skidmore has recently learned of.
