University News
June 12, 2012
As the school year came to a close, two rising juniors prepared for a three-week trip to Africa to study thermodynamics at the University of Botswana. Once they arrived, they learned plenty about engineering and also helped make the sport of tennis accessible to children in African…
June 07, 2012
Crews will begin to erect chain link fencing around the future home of the Tinkham Veale University Center today as they prepare to launch construction on the $50 million project later this summer. The 82,000-square-foot structure will be located just northwest of the university’s Kelvin Smith…
June 01, 2012
President Barbara R. Snyder announced last night that ӰƵ’s alumni and friends have broken the institution’s all-time record for philanthropy for the second consecutive year. As of Thursday—one month before the end of the fiscal year—giving totaled $134.5 million, more…
May 21, 2012
Anthropology doctoral student M. Ariel Cascio is ӰƵ’s only graduate student to win a Fulbright Scholarship so far this year. She plans to use the funding to spend nine months in northern Italy conducting dissertation research on how Italians view, use services and care for…
May 21, 2012
The heart of the Pebble watch, which has gathered more investment money than any Kickstarter project in the crowd-funding website’s history, was designed and built by a 2009 ӰƵ graduate. Andrew Witte, who earned a computer engineering degree here, is the brains behind…
May 21, 2012
Gmail creator and alumnus Paul Buchheit (CWR ’98; GRS ’98, computer engineering) advised 1,750 ӰƵ graduates to pursue their own dreams during Sunday’s commencement exercises. “You will find a lot of voices telling you which way to go or what to do and who to be,” he…
May 18, 2012
ӰƵ Commencement Speaker Paul Buchheit (CWR ’98, GRS ’98) has given $50,000 to provide paid coaching to participants in the university’s club rowing program. Buchheit, a member of the team as an undergraduate, earlier committed $100,000 to support acquisition of a…
May 17, 2012
Taneisha Deans pushed and dug and climbed to success at a school she was unprepared for, and quietly cut a path for other inner-city scholars. On her first day in physics 101 at ӰƵ, she realized she’d never even seen the math she needed for the course. She quickly…
May 17, 2012
Cyrus C. Taylor, PhD, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; Pamela B. Davis, MD, PhD, Dean of the School of Medicine; Brian A. McDonald, Executive Director of the Joan C. Edwards Charitable Foundation; Nichelle Ruffin, 2012 Edwards Scholar; Thomas M. McDonald, Distribution Director, Joan C.…
May 17, 2012
A decade ago Al and Norma Lerner made a historic $100 million commitment to advance medical education of a special kind of doctor—the physician-scientist. Neither a practitioner who only spent time in the office or operating room, nor a researcher who logged every hour in the laboratory, this…