A group of European and non-European students organized the "European Students Association" (ESA) in 2005. The goal of the ESA is to welcome and assist the incoming European students, and to bring together the European community with other international communities at Binghamton University through a variety of cultural activities. ESA warmly welcomes all students to their events, Europeans and non-Europeans.

Contact Information:

President: Alper Ecevit; Vice-President: Polya Ilieva; Treasurer: Andrey Dolgikh; Events Coordinator: Heike Sichtig; or, e-mail the ESA.

Now in its eleventh year, Writing by Degrees (WBD) is a conference/writers' retreat created by and featuring solely graduate creative writing students nationwide. Since its inception, WBD has grown to be an annual three-day meeting place for some of the most exciting work by graduate creative writers. Panels on pedagogy, theory in the creative writing classroom, the process of editing and submitting work, and the creative writing job market, have turned WBD into more than merely a showcase for national graduate literary talent. WBD features keynote poets, fiction writers, essayists, and critics from all theoretic and aesthetic backgrounds. Past speakers have included Lee K. Abbott, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Steve Almond, Jo Ann Beard, Lydia Davis, B. H. Fairchild, Sascha Feinstein, Judith Harris, Timothy Liu, Sena Jeter Naslund, Vijay Seshadri, Neil Shepard, Michael Steinberg, plus Binghamton University's very own award-winning faculty, including poets Liz Rosenberg, Ruth Stone, and Maria Gillan, and novelists Jaimee Wriston Colbert and Jack Vernon. The conference is held in Binghamton, New York, in association with Binghamton University.