The inaugural recipient of the Nadia Rubaii Prize is Maria Ressa, a journalist who
won the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for her reporting on an authoritarian regime in the
Philippines. In April, Ressa was keynote speaker at I-GMAP’s 2023 Frontiers of Prevention
meeting, an international gathering at Binghamton of atrocity prevention scholars,
practitioners and policymakers. Image Credit: Jonathan Cohen.
Donors EXCELERATE faculty and student excellence.
Anthropology graduate student Brian Keeling films himself during a Digital Storytelling
Workshop on campus in August 2022. Image Credit: Jonathan Cohen.
New digital scholarship center to open in 2025, enhanced by donors.
The Office of International Education and Global Initiatives, in Old Champlain, administers
education abroad and international exchange programs and supports the University’s
internationalization efforts. Image Credit: Jonathan Cohen.
Donors expand local to global learning.
Ioana Tiu presents her research on “Utilizing Deepfake Technology to Protect Children”
during the First-year Research Immersion program’s poster session at the Innovative
Technologies Complex in December 2021. More than 500 first- and second-year students
from all 10 FRI streams participate in the poster session each year. Image Credit: Jonathan Cohen.
Donors ensure student research doesn’t have to wait.
Graduate assistant Rebecca Zajac of the Fleishman Center takes Kevin Chen’s photo
during the center’s LinkedIn Photobooth event in November 2021. Image Credit: Jonathan Cohen.
A new career success initiative is accelerating student potential. Full story
You can make history at Binghamton
Mariko Hashimoto, lecturer in the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies of
Harpur College of Arts and Sciences, teaches Advanced Japanese Reading and Composition
II, in the Classroom Wing in February 2022. Image Credit: Jonathan Cohen.
Bequest would establish first endowed professorship in Harpur.
Luise-Charlotte Kappe with her students (from left to right) James Beuerle ‘93, MA
‘95, PhD ‘99; Viji Thomas, PhD ‘10; and David Garrison, MA ‘89, PhD ‘95, MS ‘03, at
Binghamton in 2018. Image Credit: Provided.
New graduate-student fellowship will provide crucial support.
Emergencies don’t wait — neither do you
Charles P. Pfleeger and Shari Lawrence Pfleeger ’70, LHD ’00, after a bike ride in
Washington, D.C., in August 2014. Image Credit: Reid Silverman.
Immediate-use scholarships help students keep going.
When you support student potential ... you give opportunity
Thomas Holland '24, recipient of the S. H. Ho Foundation, David and Martha Ho, MA
’78 Family Scholarship. Image Credit: Jonathan Cohen.
“With this scholarship, it will be one more student who can break out and get a great
education and degree. Who knows, there could be a future Nobel Prize recipient!” —
David Ho
The lives you change by giving — one alumna’s inspiration to give back
Geraldine MacDonald ’68, MS ’73, LittD ’17. Image Credit: Jonathan Cohen.
“People for a long time didn’t understand that an education from a state university
was as powerful as from any other university in the country. I give money to make
sure that doesn’t change.” — Geraldine MacDonald ’68, MS ’73, LittD ’17
