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After earning an undergraduate degree from Bowdoin College in 1977 and moving to the Boston area, Edward F. Lawlor spent many mornings searching for a job. Typically, he would then head over to Harvard Square to browse the job openings posted there — and also to catch an afternoon movie. “Easy Rider and Five Easy […]

“I’ve learned to enjoy the process and enjoy the path I’m on, because life is a blur and college is even faster,” he says.

Read profiles of some of the University’s most interesting graduates.

There is no Campus Watch section for this issue of the Record.

Working with Emil Unanue, one of the world’s masters of pathology and immunology, helped him become captivated by the field.

Photo by Joe AngelesThough Rob Collins has a strong passion for art, his passion for helping others is even stronger — he plans to train to become a firefighter.The advertising design major from the School of Art plans to pursue a career as a firefighter after today’s Commencement.

The visual communications major has emerged as an outstanding performer, starring as Laura in The Glass Menagerie, among many other roles.

The next-generation DNA sequencer acquired by the University represents only the second installation of this new instrument anywhere in the world.

The George Warren Brown School of Social Work honored three individuals with Outstanding Alumni Awards at the 2005 Outstanding Social Work Awards Banquet May 12 at the Forest Park Visitor Center. The school also presented an Outstanding Faculty Award to Mark R. Rank, Ph.D., the Herbert S. Hadley Professor of Social Welfare. Outstanding Alumni Awards were presented to the Rev. Cynthia S. Bumb, Ruth Greene Richardson and Frank S. Seever.

Scientists have learned that a temporal “window of opportunity” was critical to their earlier successes in treating diabetic rats with embryonic pig tissues.