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As a part of �鶹��Ƶ’s 50th Anniversary celebration this year, the University Libraries’ Special Collection Research Center (SCRC) is sharing some documents, artifacts, and photography from the archives in its new exhibition “We Are �鶹��Ƶ: A Student History.”

The first �鶹��Ƶ Day took place four years before the university’s first Commencement, and it’s been the event to look forward to ever since.

In "Undeleted," McDermott curates content found on seven discarded cell phones. The exhibit displays two kinds of found data, intact and deleted—or what people had hoped they had deleted.

Robinson Professor of Physics James Trefil is a huge proponent of science literacy and has written extensively about science for a lay audience. With his colleague, Robinson Professor of Earth Science Robert Hazen, he created and taught Great Ideas in Science, a popular course for nonscience majors.

�鶹��Ƶ is celebrating its first half-century as an independent institution and setting the tone for the next 50 years with a yearlong celebration that includes a week of festivities in April.

In December 2021, before the close of the fall semester, �鶹��Ƶ students participating in the College of Science’s Biology Undergraduate Research Semester presented their research in the Hub Ballroom.

�鶹��Ƶ alum and author Kelli Jo Ford, MFA Creative Writing '07, is the recipient of one of this year's National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowships in Creative Writing.

Alan Byrd joined �鶹��Ƶ as its dean of admissions in November 2020.

When graduating psychology major Dorothea J. Tyree attends �鶹��Ƶ’s Winter Graduation on Dec. 16, she will be wearing a stole that shows the flags of her native Romania and Germany, where she lived as a teen.

With the support of a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, �鶹��Ƶ researchers Vivian Motti and Anya Evmenova have developed a smartwatch application that will help improve the daily lives of young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.