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While students made their way back from their spring break locations earlier this week, I remained at home due to feeling ill. Even though I have not been on campus much the past few days, I felt like ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ was still reaching out to me.

²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ professor Peter Balakianhas been named the 2012 recipient of the Alice and Clifford Spendlove Prize in Social Justice, Diplomacy and Tolerance.

The university’s Thought Into Action (TIA) Institute is looking to attract even more entrepreneurial students as it builds on the success of its inaugural year.

²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ University President Jeffrey Herbst today announced the appointment of Suzy M. Nelson as dean of the college, effective in June. Nelson, who has served more than 20 years as a university leader, administrator, and instructor, will join ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ after seven years at Harvard University.

The Producers will be at Atlantic City this weekend, hoping to be a smashing success. No, it’s not an adaptation of the Broadway musical, but rather the top line of the ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ men’s hockey team that looks to lead the Raiders to the ECAC Hockey championship.

Ken Belanger, Raab Family Chair and associate professor of biology, has received another prestigious grant that builds on the biology department’s momentum and further expands the research opportunities on campus for undergraduate biology students.

Rows of textiles patterned with bright chevron stripes and horses hang in ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ’s Longyear Museum of Anthropology as part of the exhibition Threads of Tradition: Aymara and Quechua Textiles of the Andes.

We are fast-approaching 1.5 million total views on the ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ University Flickr page. Today we were looking at the stats and discovered a pattern was emerging.