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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. (Photograph courtesy of Texas A&M U.)
College Employees Value Campus Environment, Survey Finds
When a Chronicle survey asked college employees what they value about their jobs, they put the physical environment in which they work at the top of the list.
Rise in Tornadoes, Floods Poses Risk to Colleges
What if the sort of extreme weather that has left the University of Iowa inundated in floodwaters is not a freak event? What if it is a sign of things to come? (Photograph by AP Images)
Other News
After Hurricane Gustav, Campuses Clean Up
Cleanup crews scoured Gulf Coast campuses, removing downed limbs and repairing broken windows, while students and staff members forced out by Hurricane Gustav waited for word that they could return.
Lessons From Katrina Improve Colleges' Evacuations for Hurricane Gustav
College officials across the Gulf Coast were cautiously relieved when initial reports suggested the damage wasn't severe.
College of Southern Idaho Cafeteria Goes 'Tray-Less'
Students are also wasting less food because they no longer have the option of overloading their cafeteria trays, says the college's food-services director.
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A Green Building as a Billboard for Science
(A 2006 Chronicle video)
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Robert A.M. Stern Wins National Building Museum Prize (and $45,000)
The National Building Museum has chosen Robert A.M. Stern, dean of Yale University’s architecture school, to receive this year’s Vincent Scully Prize. The prize recognizes “exemplary practice, scholarship, or criticism in architecture, historic preservation, and urban design.”
In addition to overseeing the architecture school and lecturing and writing about architecture, Mr. Stern maintains a large architectural practice in New York, Robert A.M. Stern Architects. While the firm is perhaps best known for high-end houses and condominium projects, it has designed buildings for a number of colleges and universities, among them Georgetown University, Pomona College, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, Trinity University in San Antonio, Tex., the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and the University of Nebraska. President Bush has chosen Mr. Stern to plan his presidential library, which is to be built at Southern Methodist University.
The Scully Prize, given every year since 1998, is named after the eminent architectural historian who retired from Yale in 1991 but continues to teach both there and at the University of Miami.
The prize is accompanied by a cash award worth about $45,000, the building museum said in a news release. The museum said Mr. Stern was being honored for “for his years of teaching at Columbia and Yale Universities, his leadership as the dean of the Yale School of Architecture, and his seminal publications reflecting on the history of architecture in New York.”
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Hopefully he will take the money and retire and stop polluting the visual landscape with his Dreck.
— Warren Jul 15, 07:33 PM #