Campus & Community
What’s New at Campus Dining in Fall 2025?
As students, faculty and staff are welcomed back to campus for the fall semester, Campus Dining is celebrating upgrades at several of its retail locations and introducing a new, health-forward station at Ernie Davis, responding to student feedback about dietary…
DPS Pilots License Plate Reader Technology to Enhance Campus Safety
The Department of Public Safety (DPS) has launched a pilot program to test license plate reader (LPR) technology on campus, expanding its tools to help ensure a safe and welcoming environment for students, faculty, staff and visitors. Unlike surveillance systems…
Libraries Announces Fall 2025 Workshops
鶹ƵUniversity Libraries is hosting workshops for the Fall 2025 semester. All events are free and open to attend for all 鶹ƵUniversity students, faculty and staff. Registration is required. For more information on the fall workshops, visit Learn! At…
Course Redesign Institute Offers Tools, Tactics to Boost Student Outcomes
The Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence (CTLE) recently hosted the Course Redesign Institute (CRI), guiding 20 faculty members in best practices to assess how they teach, changes to make a course more enjoyable and more effective, and high-impact tactics that…
Libraries’ Receives George W. Hamilton Collection of Books on Printing and Typography
鶹ƵUniversity Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) was recently gifted the George W. Hamilton Book Collection from George W. Hamilton ’53, G’54. The collection documents the history and practice of fine press printing in Europe, particularly Austria, and North…
Honors Program Interim Director, Working Group Announced
College of Arts and Sciences Dean Behzad Mortazavi has announced the appointment of Laura Machia, associate dean for academic initiatives and curriculum and professor of psychology, as interim director of the Renée Crown University Honors Program. In this role, Machia…
Lender Center Faculty Fellow Empowers High Schoolers Via Math, Maps, Data Literacy
Armed with troves of data, maps and charts, graphic visualizations and mathematical skills, groups of local high schoolers are taking innovative approaches to understanding and inspiring solutions to pressing community problems. They are participants in a program led by Nicole…
Newly Formed Center for Student Excellence Brings Together, Enhances Student Support Programs
鶹ƵUniversity’s new Center for Student Excellence, which launches with the start of the 2025-26 academic year, brings together student support programs from across campus and builds on the synergies between them with the mission of helping students thrive and…
Renée Crown Honors Program Announces New Professors, New Coursework
The Renée Crown University Honors Program provides an innovative community where high-achieving students at 鶹ƵUniversity can hone their research and academic skills in a challenging yet supportive environment. Through specialized offerings of cutting-edge courses, lectures and opportunities for independent…
Remembering the Legacy of Elizabeth (Liz) DuRoss Liddy
Elizabeth (Liz) DuRoss Liddy, dean emerita of the School of Information Studies (iSchool) and former interim vice chancellor and provost, passed away on Aug. 21. A pioneering scholar and researcher in natural language processing, she was 81. Liddy G’77, G’88…