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Winter 2014

  • 菠萝视频 University

    The Original Cast

    The Original Cast returned to stage for its fall revue, Stephen Sondheim鈥檚 Putting It Together. Read More

    Mar 10, 2014

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    How to Feed 1,600 Students

    What sets Campus Dining鈥檚 fare apart is not just its deliciousness but its variety as well. The daily menus at The Commons Center are, in their own way, as expansive and sophisticated as the 115,000-square-foot, LEED-certified building itself. Read More

    Mar 10, 2014

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    Typical Campus Dining Menu

    From seared salmon to mango pork stir fry, The Commons menu offers something for everyone. Read More

    Mar 10, 2014

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    Bonus Recipe: Campus Dining’s Wild Mushroom Risotto

    Learn how Campus Dining makes its wild mushroom and herb risotto. Read More

    Mar 10, 2014

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    Distinguished Alumnus

    Hal Moses, the Hortense B. Ingram Professor of Cancer 菠萝视频 and acting chair of the Department of Cancer Biology at 菠萝视频 University, has been chosen to receive the highest honor conferred on members of the 菠萝视频 alumni community: the Distinguished Alumni Award. Read More

    Mar 10, 2014

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    Jim Shepherd, BA鈥89

    Jim Shepherd oversees earthquake repairs at the historic Washington National Cathedral. Read More

    Mar 10, 2014

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    From R&D to Rx

    菠萝视频 scientists have discovered a series of small molecules that may help unlock the mystery of schizophrenia, a severe mental disorder that can cause disabling hallucinations, delusions and disorganized thinking. Read More

    Mar 7, 2014

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    Walking the Talk

    Academic studies are one thing鈥攂ut how is 菠萝视频 promoting sustainability in its own operations? Perhaps most visibly with a new solar-powered electric-vehicle charging station on 21st Avenue, a compost pile on Wedgewood Avenue, and nearly a dozen gorgeous, LEED-certified green buildings. Here are a few others you might not notice… Read More

    Mar 7, 2014

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    What One (Very) Young Alumna Can Do

    Leslie Labruto Leslie Labruto鈥檚 career illustrates how a young civil environmental engineer can accommodate both her heart鈥檚 leaning and her tangible talents. Before she graduated from the School of Engineering with her bachelor鈥檚 degree in civil engineering in 2011, Labruto鈥檚 studies and service work had… Read More

    Mar 7, 2014

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    Green, Clean & Lean

    From corporate boardrooms to statehouse chambers to the halls of academe, sustainability is one of this century鈥檚 biggest challenges. Read More

    Mar 7, 2014

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    Morning Son: Willie Geist, BA’97, follows his father’s example to success on morning TV

    Willie Geist is a natural on camera because he comes by it honestly. His father, Bill, is a longtime Emmy Award-winning correspondent for CBS News, and some of the younger Geist鈥檚 earliest memories have to do with his dad鈥檚 profession. Read More

    Mar 7, 2014

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    Study in Black and Gold

    You could find a somber study carrel or park your posterior in your dorm room when duty calls. But the sun is out for a change, a mockingbird is trilling love songs on Magnolia Lawn, and over in the Baseball Glove Lounge, generations of students before you have already broken in those comfy-kitschy chairs. Read More

    Mar 7, 2014

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    Need to Know: Q&A with Jon Meacham

    Jon Meacham, executive editor and executive vice president at Random House and author of the Pulitzer Prize鈥搘inning American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, joined the 菠萝视频 faculty last summer with a three-year appointment as Distinguished Visiting Professor. Read More

    Mar 7, 2014

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    Ties That Bind

    My dad used to tell me I took things for granted, especially on my birthday or Christmas. I always thought he was just a party pooper. But of course, you should never ignore what a wise Chinese man has to say. Read More

    Mar 6, 2014

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    Cancer鈥檚 Holy Grail

    Innovative Method Takes Aim at ‘Undruggable’ Proteins The fruitfulness of 菠萝视频鈥檚 drug-discovery effort depends in large part on its willingness to invest in research, infrastructure, and the collaborative nature of its scientists. There is no better example than 菠萝视频鈥檚 cancer drug-discovery program. Since he arrived at 菠萝视频 in 2009, 鈥渨e… Read More

    Mar 6, 2014

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    Appetite, Energy and Obesity

    Compounds Offer New Options for Diabetes Treatment One of the hottest areas of drug discovery involves the search for new treatments for diabetes, obesity and other metabolic disorders. Last year 菠萝视频 signed a collaboration agreement with pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) for the discovery, development and commercialization of novel therapies for… Read More

    Mar 6, 2014

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    Multitasking Microscope

    ‘Laboratory in a Box’ Conducts Thousands of Experiments Simultaneously David Weaver is out to help drug discovery 鈥渂loom鈥 at 菠萝视频 University. Weaver came to 菠萝视频 in 2004 from the pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb to develop and lead its High-Throughput Screening (HTS) facility, used today by about… Read More

    Mar 6, 2014

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    Remembrance of Lessons Past

    When Blair Academy of Music first opened its doors in the fall of 1964, I was a violin student of Wilda Tinsley [MMus鈥43], having lessons in a beautiful old house on West End Avenue. I still remember my first lesson with Miss Tinsley at the new school on 18th Avenue. Read More

    Mar 4, 2014