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For years, Daniel Lacks has taken �Ӱ���Ƶ engineering students to African villages, showing them a different way of life and, more recently, aiding those they visited by installing solar panels in their villages. What he and his students didn’t realize, though, was the…

Nearly 300 years after Johann Sebastian Bach wrote St. John Passion, the piece is still being performed, held up by some as a masterpiece—and acting as a flashpoint for discussions of anti-Semitism. Before the Cleveland Orchestra performs the passion this month, David J. Rothenberg, chair of Case…

As a 24-year-old attorney—one of few African-American lawyers in his home state of Alabama in 1955—Fred Gray would meet with a department store employee over lunch and discuss her frustrations as a black woman riding the city’s segregated buses. And he'd counsel her about what she might do if asked…

Former university employee and 1994 graduate won an Oscar for innovations in facial animation—his hobby-turned-career Geoff Wedig made Brad Pitt look old and Jeff Bridges look young. And now he has an Academy Award to show for it. The �Ӱ���Ƶ alum is the first to admit it’s an…

Patty Urbon’s home has always been a gathering place for family and friends, whether as a place to stay or as the site for holiday celebrations and family get-togethers. She comes by hospitality naturally, as her family has long opened their home to others—even hosting an exchange student from…

Six-week institute to focus on energy, environmental and public health policy This summer, 25 rising young leaders from sub-Saharan African countries will spend six weeks at �Ӱ���Ƶ in a federal program aimed at empowering them through workshops, leadership training and…

By Kaitlin Murphy A mural depicting female engineers on bright, blocky backgrounds now stretches across a wall off the main entrance of the A.W. Smith Building. What was once a blank space, cluttered with garbage cans and recycling bins, now has been creatively and colorfully transformed by…

(Update: Parihug placed second and Reflexion Interactive Technologies placed third in the competition.) The top college startups in America are set to meet in a “Student Startup Madness” championship next month at South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive in Austin, Texas. And two of the…

On Saturday, Facebook officially entered its teenage years—meaning it’s been 13 years since a then-unknown Harvard student wrote the code that would evolve from a program to connect college students to one that today serves nearly 1.5 billion users worldwide. Over the succeeding years, many other…

One of eight startups competing in Midwest regional Clean Energy Challenge (Update: RVS Rubber Solutions won the Feb. 9 competition and $50,000 grant, moving on to the national competition in June.) According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), about 100 million pounds of tire…