Recent News
Welcoming New Faculty for the New Term
The new academic term is underway at Elmira College and, in addition to new students, the College welcomed several new faculty members. Doc McAlister Billingsley joins Elmira College as an assistant professor of anthropology, following previous teac...
Sep 19, 2019, 2:27pm EDT
Athletics Announces Inaugural Hall of Fame Class
The Elmira College Department of Athletics has officially announced its inaugural Hall of Fame class, which will be inducted on Friday, November 15, as part of EC's Athletics Alumni Weekend. Elmira's first-ever Hall of Fame class spans the decades a...
Sep 18, 2019, 3:18pm EDT
Longwell Ceramic Piece Included in Rosenfield Collection
A ceramic piece by Professor Chris Longwell, lecturer of art and art history, is included in The Rosenfield Collection of ceramic art recently acquired by the Everson Museum in Syracuse, NY. The collection, which includes nearly 3,000 ceramics pieces,...
Sep 18, 2019, 1:17pm EDT
Women's and Gender Studies to Host Women's History Lecture
The Elmira College Women's and Gender Studies Program will host their first event of the 2019 fall academic year on Tuesday, September 17 at 5:30 p.m. in Peterson Chapel, Cowles Hall. The event, a lecture by Dr. Myra Glenn, Elmira College professor of ...
Sep 16, 2019, 11:45am EDT
The Twilight Zone Play Draws On Iconic Show
Acclaimed author and playwright, Mark Dawidziak, and his Largely Literary Theatre Company co-founder, Sara Showman, will perform a one-act play, "Everything I Need to Know I Learned in The Twilight Zone," based on episodes of the popular television ser...
Sep 13, 2019, 9:45am EDT
New Year Brings New Programs, New Excitement
Students are back on campus and the 2019-2020 academic year is in full swing. With the new academic year come new accolades, programs, and faces at Elmira College. In its just-released 2020 BEST COLLEGES rankings, U.S. News & World Report ranked E...
Sep 12, 2019, 11:26am EDT
Elmira College to Add Men's & Women's Wrestling Programs
Elmira College Director of Athletics Renee Carlineo announced Wednesday morning the addition of men's and women's wrestling as intercollegiate programs that will begin competition during the 2020-21 academic year. The teams expand Elmira's varsity spor...
Sep 11, 2019, 11:10am EDT
Routledge Companion Reviewed by Los Angeles Review of Books
The Los Angeles Review of Books recently published a long review of The Routledge Companion to Literature and Economics, a collection of essays co-edited by Elmira College Assistant Professor of American Literature & Mark Twain Studies, Dr. Matt Seybol...
Sep 10, 2019, 10:48am EDT
U.S. News & World Report Names Elmira College "Best Regional College"
In its just-released 2020 BEST COLLEGES rankings, U.S. News & World Report ranked Elmira College sixth among the Best Regional Colleges in the Northeast and second among Best Value Colleges in the Northeast. "We are honored to once again be included...
Sep 9, 2019, 12:13pm EDT
Gannett-Tripp Library to Host Live Reading of "Mark Twain's Niagara"
On Friday, September 20, award-winning author Zachary Schwartz will read from his graphic novel, "Mark Twain's Niagara," at 6:00 p.m. in the Tripp Lecture Hall of Elmira College's Gannett-Tripp Library. Following the reading, Schwartz will do book sign...
Sep 6, 2019, 3:22pm EDT