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Smith鈥檚 2009 book, Pull Up a Chair: The Vin Scully Story is the only biography written on the iconic broadcaster. 鈥淗e鈥檚 a very humble man, and I think he feels his work speaks for itself,鈥� Smith says. 鈥淣obody says a bad word about him. Nobody.鈥�

The Frederick Douglass Building officially re-opens this week after a complete renovation of the iconic 79,000-square-foot space. 鈥淚 feel like I鈥檓 in a different building,鈥� says Laura Ballou '97, director of the Campus Center.

This week's Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers will bring more than 400 expects from around the world to Rochester to discuss the evolving nature of entrepreneurship and how the centers can make impacts the move their communities forward.

The student leaders talk about the major issues on campus, their hobbies and pet peeves, and their goals for the coming year and life after Rochester.

In 1967, the Monkees outsold the Beatles and the Rolling Stones combined, and remain the only band with four No. 1 albums in a 12-month period. "Their music stands up," says John Covach, director of the University's Institute for Popular Music.

鈥淚 like to help people, and it鈥檚 nice to go into the community and give back,鈥� said Matthew Le '20, one of the more than 1,300 freshmen who began their college career in Rochester with the annual Wilson Day of community service.

Three colleagues from the University's Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning joined forces this summer to teach a nationally available online course on supporting and teaching students with disabilities in the college classroom.

A new freshman class of 1,368 students on the River Campus and 140 students at the Eastman School of Music moved into their new homes on Wednesday, as student music groups entertained waiting families and hundreds of student volunteers helped lighten the move-in load.

When more than 1,300 students from the Class of 2020 move in this week, they鈥檒l see a River Campus that鈥檚 undergoing a transformation in more ways than one, with major renovations underway to student spaces.

"With this program, everything came together. Now, I feel like a real scientist.鈥� Derek McNeil joined a record 140 high school students from Rochester City schools took part in the six-week summer program.

Before he became the 蘑菇传媒's youngest president, Alan Valentine played a part in one of the great upsets in Olympic Games history.

The University's third annual "summer school" in big data gives everyone from undergraduates to tenured faculty a chance to learn how programming and data visualization could impact their research projects.