Meliora Weekend combines alumni relations, homecoming, and family weekends, and attracts 7,000 attendees each year for four days of events such as seminars and performances.

Gates was appointed defense secretary in 2006 by President George W. Bush. He was asked to remain in office by President Barack Obama and served until 2011. He will be the keynote speaker on Saturday, Oct. 12.

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Martin, a former writer for Late Night with Conan O’Brien and the author of the New York Times’ best-seller This is a Book, will perform on Friday, Oct. 11.

Booker, mayor of Newark, N.J. since 2006, will be the featured speaker for members of the George Eastman Circle, the University’s leadership giving society.

The University will hold an online lottery in July for Gates’ live keynote address. Details to enter are not available yet. For more information, visit the Meliora Weekend 2013 site.

Look for extensive coverage of Meliora Weekend in the fall issue of the Campus Times.

Fleming, an opera singer, was awarded her fourth Grammy for Best Classical Vocal Solo for “Poèmes,” an album of four French orchestral song cycles. Ludwig was the mastering engineer for “Babel,” the Album of the Year winner by Mumford & Sons. Ludwig is the past recipient of a Latin Grammy and two other Grammy awards.

Alumni Bill Cunliffe (MM ’81) and Gene Scheer (MM ’81 MM ’82) were also nominated for the competition. Cunliffe, a composer, arranger and pianist, was nominated in the Best Instrumental Composition category for his work “Overture, Waltz and Rondo.” Scheer, an opera librettist, received a nomination in the Best Contemporary Classical Composition category for the concert drama “August 4, 1964.”

Read more on the Eastman School of Music website.

The incident was located on the 1100 block of South Plymouth Ave., north of Riverview apartments. Alert UR, the University’s notification system, advised recipients to “stay away from [the] area” and to “remain sheltered.”

Captain Ray Decoup said that precautions were taken due to the investigation’s proximity to the school. At 10:45 p.m., recipients were notified of the investigation’s conclusion.

No one is in custody or under arrest for the incident. Coverage can be found at Democrat & Chronicle. For Alert UR information, click here.

In addition to her own television program, Perry-Harris is a regular contributor to other print and media programs, a political analyst, and a professor of political science at Tulane University.

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Open Letter Books was chosen from more than 1,500 applicants from more than a dozen artistic fields. Grant projects were chosen for their artistic merit and excellence and their focus on the presentation of works for American audiences.

Open Letter Books is one of the only publishing groups in the U.S. devoted to works in translation, publishing 10 works a year. It also runs Three Percent, a website that features book reviews, translated book awards, and publishing news.

Health care benefits, which had been the main point of contention between UR and SEIU, remain largely the same in the new contract, according to the Democrat & Chronicle. Representatives from both sides have released statements of favor about the agreement.

For more detailed coverage of this story please see the December 6 issue of the Campus Times.

The civil suit accuses UR and DU of negligence for not taking the necessary steps that could have decreased the possibility of violent action. A July 2011 report that reviewed the incident claimed that the University’s response was appropriate and stayed true to UR’s established protocol concerning emergencies. It also gave 23 recommendations for how the University could prevent such problems in the future.

For more detailed coverage of this story look to the Dec. 6 issue of the Campus Times.

Some accounts have been compromised by users who have responded to the phishing. One of the most fraudulent emails redirects users to an external website at which the users enter their username and password. Users are cautioned that these phony websites look like valid UR sites.

If you think you may have been a victim of this email phishing scam, you are asked to change your password immediately by going to UR’s myIdentity portal or by calling the Information Technology Help Desk at 585-275-2000.

Users are asked to be cautious of suspicious emails and to report spam or phishing emails immediately. These emails should be sent as an attachment to the University IT Help Desk at UnivITHelp@Rochester.edu or Abuse@Rochester.edu. For more information, visit IT’s phishing website here.