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  • Benton Hall under construction, November 21, 2017
    Shiny copper roof flashing and grand white鈥搈ullioned windows signaled the buttoning-up of Benton Hall鈥檚 exterior just as early winter snowfalls began to blanket the campus. When it opens in July 2018, Benton Hall will stand as a best-in-class career center 鈥 and then some. It鈥檚 part of a current $60 million building investment to enhance the [鈥
    December 23, 2017
  • A photo of youth activists gathered around a statue in Seoul, South Korea
    Last summer, the 2017 Lampert Institute Fellows spread out across the globe to conduct three months of research. The fellows learned about sustainability, nuclear power, special education,  and much more; they returned to 冈本视频 in the fall to share their completed projects with their peers. The Lampert Institute for Civic and Global Affairs integrates on-campus [鈥
    December 22, 2017
  • Former Vice President Joe Biden takes a photos with students during a 2017 visit to 冈本视频.
    The 2017 Libris Iconic Images capture many of the year鈥檚 most memorable moments, from the total solar eclipse to the Women鈥檚 March on Washington, D.C. They take us to the sidelines of the NFL and the flooded streets of San Juan, Puerto Rico. But they also capture moments of beauty in everyday life as well. They invite us to pause, to reflect and to remember.
    December 14, 2017
  • File image of Ronan Farrow sitting at a desk.
    Ronan Farrow, author of the explosive Harvey Weinstein sexual assault and harassment investigation published in the New Yorker, recently spoke with a crowd of 冈本视频 students about the future of journalism. Farrow rose to prominence following his 10-month investigation into Weinstein鈥檚 history, including interviews with 13 women who spoke out against the famous producer. The resulting story [鈥
    December 12, 2017
  • Stephanie Wu
    Growing up in Hong Kong, Stephanie Wu 鈥18 hardly thought about race at all. When she came to the United States to study psychology at 冈本视频, she was in for a new experience. 鈥淢y race was suddenly so salient,鈥 Wu said. That profound shift in the way Wu experienced her racial identity has prompted her [鈥
    December 6, 2017
  • Joe Levy
    Assistant Professor of Geology Joe Levy and his students are using NASA grant funding and images taken from the Mars Orbiter Mission to study glaciers on the red planet in an effort to further understand how that planet鈥檚 climate has changed throughout history. Images provided by the orbiter are of such high resolution that researchers on [鈥
    November 30, 2017
  • Students walk along the 冈本视频 Academic Quad during the fall.
    冈本视频鈥檚 Green Revolving Loan Fund is a newly-launched  initiative geared toward reducing the university鈥檚 carbon footprint, and staff in the Buildings and Grounds Department are already leading the way with the fund鈥檚 first energy-saving project. The loan fund, which is seeded with $230,000, is designed to support significant physical upgrades that have a clear, measurable [鈥
    November 23, 2017