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Photo by Kevin LowderThe Midnight Breakfast May 6 in Wohl Student Center provided students with a fun way to take a break from studying for finals.

In a move to bolster its already impressive literary archive of poet James Merrill (1926-1995), University Libraries recently purchased 240 additional letters, manuscripts, rare books, signed first editions and other items from Christie’s auction house. The items came from the estate of Jonathan Goodwin, a book collector who was a neighbor of Merrill’s in Stonington, […]

Fall highlights include prominent scientists and colloquia on the environment; many lectures are part of the Sesquicentennial celebration.

“Key to the Cure” is a new women’s cancer initiative to raise funds to combat breast, ovarian, uterine and cervical cancers.

Photo by Mary ButkusThe campus community reflects at a memorial gathering in Graham Chapel two years after the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001.

The musical is a fast-paced, quick-witted story of well-meaning wise guys and the women who suffer their antics.

Peter S. Hovmand, Ph.D., Deborah M. Megivern, Ph.D., Carolyn Kornfeld Lesorogol, Ph.D.,

Photo by David KilperHardware developed by John Lockwood scans for viruses and worms that are transmitted over a network and filters out unwanted data.John Lockwood and graduate students in his laboratory have developed a hardware platform called the “Field-programmable Port Extender.”

And winning a St. Louis interiors awards was the University’s Small Group Housing, designed by local firm Mackey Mitchell Associates.

Everett Mendelsohn, one of America’s foremost historians of science, will deliver the Thomas Hall Lecture as part of the Assembly Series at 4 p.m. Nov. 13 in Rebstock Hall, Room 215. His talk is titled “Dolly and the Historians: Science, Politics and Ethics of Cloning.” Mendelsohn is professor of the history of science at Harvard […]