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Protecting Privacy, Preventing Terror What do your credit history, medical records and Flickr photo streams have in common with the 9-11 Commission? A new, six-campus research effort,...

Becoming Agents of Change The first graduating class of Gender and Women’s Studies majors has gained critical skills and leadership experience essential to the 21st century. “Our program...

First Class Graduates from Unique Media and Communication Studies Program As communication becomes increasingly digital, interactive and pervasive, knowledge of new media technology is...

Meyerhoff Scholar Receives Goldwater Scholarship Meyerhoff Scholar Carla Valenzuela, a sophomore with a 4.0 GPA, is one of 321 students receiving 2008 Goldwater Scholarships, considered...

Filming the “Plight of the Puffins” Puffins: the flighted, more stylish-looking cousins of the penguin. To the island nation of Iceland, they are as culturally significant as blue crabs are to...