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Thursday, May 17, 2012

 
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‘First Year’ book: a criminal and a Rhodes Scholar

The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates is the 2012-13 selection for the First Year Reading Program. The book focuses on two men with the same name who grew up in similar Baltimore neighborhoods. One is a convicted murderer; the other a Rhodes Scholar. The book provides a shared intellectual experience for incoming students.

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Marion Crain named vice provost

Marion G. Crain, JD, the Wiley B. Rutledge Professor of Law and a Faculty Fellow in the Office of the Provost, has been named vice provost, announced Edward S. Macias, PhD, provost, executive vice chancellor for academic affairs and the Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences.

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Outstanding Graduate Tingting Wu: Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts-Architecture

Tingting Wu, the Record’s Outstanding Graduate in architecture from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, has a strong interest in blending natural wilderness with cultural wildness. A native of Shanghai, China, she creates architecture at the intersection of art and landscape.

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Portion of Throop Drive to close May 28

A section of Throop Drive that runs in front of Eliot Hall on the north side of the Danforth Campus will close beginning Monday, May 28, for the construction of Knight and Bauer halls for the Olin Business School. Throop will remain closed to both vehicular and pedestrian traffic until construction is completed in early March 2014.

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Medical students write health-care handbook

School of Medicine students Nathan Moore and Elisabeth Askin collaborated to produce a clear, concise guide to the U.S. health-care system called the Health Care Handbook. The book is a topical overview of the system, aimed primarily at health professions undergraduate and graduate students.

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5-7 p.m. Thursday, May 17

Opening Reception for Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design Year-End Show

Opening reception for YES 3.0: Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design Year-End Show, presented by the Graduate Architecture Council. Exhibit on view May 13-21 and features work of graduating architecture, landscape architecture and urban design students. Steinberg Hall Gallery. (314) 935-6200.

Announcements

Campus Circulator rerouted this summer

Due to the closure of Forsyth Boulevard and Throop Drive for construction this summer, the Campus Circulator will follow a revised route on the Danforth Campus beginning Tuesday, May 22. Under the new route, the circulator still will run throughout the Danforth Campus.

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Three set track & field school records

Seniors Erica Jackey and Elizabeth Phillips and sophomore Anna Etherington set school records for track & field May 10-11. Jackey became the first athlete in school history to break 17 minutes in the women’s 5,000-meter run, with a school-record time of 16:57.38. Phillips broke Jackey’s school record in the 1,500 with a time of 4:25.88. Etherington added 14 centimeters to her own school record in the pole vault with a clearance of 4.01 meters.

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