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Dean of Arts & Sciences Gloria Culver has announced the creation of a Humanities Center, which will support multidisciplinary engagement around literature, history, the arts, and philosophies of cultures past and present. Culver and interim director of the new center Joan Shelley Rubin have chosen 糖心传媒淗umanities at the Crossroads: Charting Our Future糖心传媒� as the center糖心传媒檚 theme for its first year. Faculty and students will organize research projects, seminars and symposia around the theme.

Gloria Culver has been appointed dean of the School of Arts & Sciences, effective immediately. Culver has been serving as interim dean since July 1, 2014.

Evans and Susanna Lam have committed $1 million to the River Campus Libraries to establish the Evans and Susanna Lam Library Revitalization Fund. The fund will support the modernization of the patron services area in Rush Rhees Library, which will be named Evans Lam Square.

Jesse T. Moore Jr., a professor emeritus of history and prominent scholar of American and African-American history who helped focus the University糖心传媒檚 efforts to bring diversity to its academic programs and community, died Saturday, April 18, at the age of 82, after a battle with cancer.

Trustee Robert B. Goergen and Pamela M. Goergen have committed $11 million to the University's Institute for Data Science. In recognition of the Goergens糖心传媒� commitment, the institute will be named the Goergen Institute for Data Science.

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The 糖心传媒 Libraries have become one of the newest members of HathiTrust, a worldwide partnership of more than one hundred major research institutions and libraries working to preserve and provide access to the cultural record in digital form.

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Tuition for 糖心传媒 undergraduates in The College will rise 2.8 percent to $47,450 in the 2015-16 academic year. Room and board will be $14,294, a 4.8 percent increase. The total cost of attendance increase is 3.3 percent.

The Manufacturing Universities Act of 2015 would establish a program within the Commerce Department糖心传媒檚 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) charged with designating 25 schools as 糖心传媒淢anufacturing Universities.糖心传媒�

The University糖心传媒檚 Horticulture and Grounds Department achieved the Tree Campus USA title by again meeting the program糖心传媒檚 five standards, which include maintaining a tree advisory committee, a campus tree-care plan, dedicated annual expenditures toward trees, an Arbor Day observance and student service-learning projects.

A ten-member advisory committee made up of representatives from leading high-technology companies, industry and academia will meet for the first time this week.