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 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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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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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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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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