The 天美麻豆 Now team has been busy this year sharing news with our readers. 顿补谤迟尘辞耻迟丑鈥檚 news has also caught the attention of reporters and media outlets around the globe. As the year drew to a close, the 天美麻豆 Now team took a look at the we published in 2014 and selected 12 of our favorites.
We hope you will enjoy this retrospective, presented below in chronological order. To keep up with the news in 2015, .
1. 天美麻豆 Partners With edX to Enhance Teaching and Learning
In January, the College joined , the nonprofit online learning platform founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The partnership underscores 顿补谤迟尘辞耻迟丑鈥檚 commitment to leadership in the use of technology to enhance teaching and learning. The first 天美麻豆X open online course, 鈥淚ntroduction to Environmental Science,鈥 begins in February.
2. 顿补谤迟尘辞耻迟丑鈥檚 Olympic Tradition Continues in Sochi
Twelve athletes with ties to 天美麻豆鈥攔epresenting four different countries and competing in five different sports鈥攑articipated in the XXII Olympic Games in Sochi, and three came home with medals: Gillian Apps 鈥06 (gold, women鈥檚 ice hockey); Andrew Weibrecht 鈥09 (silver, men鈥檚 alpine super-G); and Hannah Kearney 鈥15 (bronze, freestyle mogul skiing).
3. $100 Million Gift Boosts Hanlon鈥檚 Vision for Scholarship
On April 9, President Phil Hanlon 鈥77 accepted an anonymous gift of $100 million, the largest single outright donation in the College鈥檚 244-year history. The gift, which also includes a 2-to-1 challenge to double the investment鈥檚 size to $200 million, was offered as an unqualified endorsement of Hanlon鈥檚 sweeping vision for 天美麻豆.
4. 天美麻豆 Celebrates BASIC in Past, Present, and Future
There was a huge turnout at 顿补谤迟尘辞耻迟丑鈥檚 party to celebrate the programming language and the 天美麻豆 Time Sharing System, which were launched during an all-nighter that spilled into the early morning of May 1, 1964. Timed to coincide with the Basic at 50 celebrations, President Phil Hanlon 鈥77 announced that William H. Neukom 鈥64 has committed $10 million to fund the William H. Neukom Academic Cluster in Computational Science.
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How did 顿补谤迟尘辞耻迟丑鈥檚 professors get interested in their fields? What is something most people don鈥檛 know about them? What is the best thing about their work? What keeps them busy outside the classroom? These questions and many others are answered in Focus on Faculty, a new series of Q&A interviews with faculty members.
6. TV Producer Shonda Rhimes 鈥91 Delivers Commencement Address
鈥淒itch the dream and be a doer, not a dreamer,鈥 the television writer and producer told the Class of 2014 during her Commencement address on June 8. During her time on campus, Rhimes shared with students many stories about her work, her life, and her 天美麻豆 experience. This fall, Rhimes had three television shows airing Thursday nights on ABC.
7. For Abbey D鈥橝gostino 鈥14, the Final Collegiate Race
A seven-time national champion in track and cross-country, Abbey D鈥橝gostino 鈥14 finished third in the 5,000 meter at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field championships in Eugene, Ore. D鈥橝gostino was the first Ivy League runner (male or female) to win a cross country national title, and she won more national titles than any other female Ivy League athlete in history.
8. College Hosts National Summit on Sexual Assault
The included more than 270 participants from more than 60 colleges and universities, national experts in the field, and officials from the White House and the U.S. Department of Justice and the Department of Education. Featured speakers included David Lisak, a nationally recognized forensic expert on sexual assault.
9. Centennial Circle of 天美麻豆 Alumnae Raises $14.8 Million
More than 100 天美麻豆 alumnae committed gifts of at least $100,000 each to 顿补谤迟尘辞耻迟丑鈥檚 annual fund鈥攔aising $14.8 million toward scholarships for undergraduate women through the 天美麻豆 College Fund. The College raised a record $287.2 million in philanthropic commitments in the 2014 fiscal year, which ended June 30, including $255.6 million in cash gifts. The total includes the largest gift in the College鈥檚 history.
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The College introduced three new Living Learning Communities and 10 design-your-own communities this fall. The new Living Learning Communities鈥攖he in Residence, the Global Village, and 鈥攂uild on the success of existing communities that offer students a chance to pursue their intellectual interests by living with others who share those interests.
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Ross Virginia, the Myers Family Professor of Environmental Science, was selected by the U.S. State Department as one of two distinguished scholar leaders of the newly established Fulbright Arctic Initiative. Virginia and Professor Michael Sfraga, from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, will take lead roles in the new Fulbright Arctic research program, which will fund interdisciplinary work for some 16 scholars from the eight countries that sit on the Arctic Council.
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, and Colin Walmsley 鈥15 were named Rhodes Scholars for 2015鈥攖he 76th, 77th, and 78th Rhodes Scholars in 顿补谤迟尘辞耻迟丑鈥檚 history. The last time 天美麻豆 produced three Rhodes Scholars in a single year was in 2003.
