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Campus Brief: Math major awarded Churchill Scholarship
Senior and honors mathematics major Andrew Niles has been named a 2008 Churchill Scholar. The Churchill Scholarship is an annual scholarship offered to graduates of participating universities in the United States and Australia to students pursuing engineering, mathematics and sciences. The scholarships are offered to only 12 students in the entire country.Niles will continue his […]
Young addresses civil rights issues
At 6:30 p.m on Jan. 28, a close friend of Martin Luther King Jr., prominent civil rights leader and former ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young, stood before an anxious audience. He is both a human rights advocate as well as a community activist who was a former U.S. congressman and mayor of Atlanta, […]
Gibbons is honored with new position
On Jan. 10, UR announced its decision to appoint Associate Dean of River Campus Libraries and Public Services and Collection Development Susan Gibbons as the new Vice Provost and Andrew H. and Janet Dayton Neilly Dean of River Campus Libraries. Current Dean of River Campus Libraries Ronald Dow is retiring after 11 years of work […]
Gandhi blog post causes backlash
On Jan. 17, Co-founder and President of the M. K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence Arun Gandhi submitted his offer of resignation. While the reasoning for Gandhi's resignation has not been announced, it can be inferred that it is related to the controversial remarks he wrote for The Washington Post Web site. Gandhi is on a […]
Building plans upset residents
The Plymouth Exchange Neighborhood Association expressed discontent with the building plans for the new UR Riverview Apartments. The 19th Ward Residents believed they had been misled because city officials approved a different version of the building plans than was originally presented to residents in community meetings in February.The Riverview Apartments are scheduled to be completed […]
Theta Chi sanctioned
On Jan. 7, Dean of the College Richard Feldman informed Theta Chi Fraternity that he modified the severest of the sanctions recommended by an administrative hearing team in December. The final version of the sanctions place Theta Chi on an inactive, "censured status" until the fall of 2010.Conditions of inactive status stipulate that fraternity members […]
Security Update
A male graduate student was robbed on Wednesday evening, Jan. 9, while most students were away for winter break, according to an e-mail from UR Security. The student was approached in the Intercampus Drive Lot after 9 p.m. by five teenagers. According to the student, three of the suspects demanded his money and cell phone, […]
Crowd, team and professor featured on History Channel TV show
On Friday, Jan. 18, in the Louis Alexander Palestra, the men's and women's basketball teams beat New York University. While the players were concentrating on winning the games and the energized spectators were cheering them on, The History Channel was simultaneously taping the game for an episode of "The Universe." "The Universe" is a television […]
Campus Brief: Seligman shares news of cancer remission cancer remission
UR President Joel Seligman sent a message to the University community last Wednesday, Jan. 16, announcing that he had completed radiation treatments for a curable form of B Cell Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. According to his doctor, Director of the James P. Wilmot Cancer Center Richard Fisher, Seligman is in complete remission with no evidence of cancer […]
Darwin included polar bears
It's been a little over a year since polar bears have been at the center of a controversy between animal rights activists and the media. Almost 12 months ago, it was the cuddly, bottle-fed Knut that snatched the hearts of millions of cooing fans when he was lifted from his death after his mother abandoned […]
