Alan Koslow’s weekly guide to Capital Region campus events, with Nobel economist Claudia Goldin, the Sagrada Família architect and more.

A former Glens Falls editor’s play about his newsroom is having its world premiere at theREP in Albany.

Lithuania’s government says it is weighing a memorial at the former Vilnius Jewish cemetery site rather than allowing commercial development.

An 18-year-old Minnesota man was arrested after allegedly buying an AK-47-style rifle from an undercover FBI agent to attack the mall on Oct. 24.

Ben-Gurion University and RPI launch a $500,000 research partnership on civilian safety technologies, funded by siblings Melisa and David Gerber.

A new online course pairs close reading of a Yiddish memoir with hands-on writing exercises over four Tuesday evenings on Zoom.

A columnist argues that ordinary Israelis and a relief crew foiled a suspected suicide hijacking, and that the skies remain dangerous.

Richard and Alice Toll, GE Aerospace and the Proctors Collaborative will be honored at the Schenectady JCC gala on Nov. 12.

Congregation Agudat Achim’s 48th annual Carrot Festival returns to its Schenectady grounds Oct. 11 with food, music and family activities.

Sally DeLaney Goldberg will speak about her memoir, 457 Franklin Street, at the Temple Israel Men’s Club breakfast on Oct. 18.