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After Bumps and Bribery Charges, Frank Gehry's Library Opens at Princeton
For its trouble, the university has gotten a structure that will probably inspire and delight those who work in it. (Photo by Brian Wilson, Princeton U.)
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Academic Centers for Athletes Draw Donors
More than a dozen university athletics programs have added lavish new facilities in recent years, and academic-services budgets are soaring, a Chronicle survey finds.
Lessons From Katrina Improve Colleges' Evacuations for Hurricane Gustav
College officials across the Gulf Coast were cautiously relieved that the damage wasn't more severe.
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As Credit Crisis Freezes Colleges, Worries Mount
Colleges have often considered themselves recession-proof. But this week’s events compounded an already-difficult year for many institutions.
Princeton’s Campus Plan Comes Into Full Bloom
The plan "treats the campus as a series of neighborhoods and encourages increasing density."
Loren Pope, Admissions Adviser and Author Known for 'Usonian' House, Dies
In 1939, when he was a $50-a-week newspaper copy editor, he commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design a 1,200-square-foot house that is now a museum.
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A Green Building as a Billboard for Science
(A 2006 Chronicle video)
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3 University Leaders Testify on Efforts to Cut Greenhouse Gases
From left, Robert Birgeneau, Jacqueline Johnson, and Richard C. Levin (Environment & Public Works Committee photo)
The U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works heard testimony Thursday from three university executives on how higher education is addressing climate change. Robert Birgeneau, chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley, Jacqueline Johnson, chancellor of the University of Minnesota at Morris, and Richard C. Levin, president of Yale University, told senators about their efforts to cut greenhouse-gas emissions.
Their written testimony, along with a recording of the hearing, is available on the committee’s Web site.
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